REPORT

The IoT Innovator’s Growth Playbook

How IoT innovators can simplify their foundation, accelerate deployment and scale into new industries without multiplying cost and effort.

REPORT OVERVIEW
Key stats
  • More than 70% of industrial IoT projects stall or exceed budget due to complexity
  • Fewer than 30% of industrial IoT initiatives scale beyond pilots
  • Modular, pre-integrated hardware cuts deployment time by 30–40%
What you’ll learn
  • Why fragmentation across hardware, connectivity and certification is slowing IoT deployment
  • How high-growth IoT innovators standardize their foundation to scale across industries
  • How hybrid satellite-cellular connectivity simplifies coverage and reduces redesign cycles
  • How reducing hardware SKUs lowers certification burden, support overhead and time-to-market
  • How developer tools, diagnostics and edge logic accelerate integration and fleet operations
  • The four modernization approaches (rehost, re-platform, rearchitect, rebuild) and when to use each
  • Why solution enablement matters more than bespoke reinvention for sustainable growth
  • How to unify design patterns so applications expand into new verticals without rework
Real-world examples
  • Numerica used SKYWAVE hybrid satellite-cellular technology to monitor 1,000+ oil & gas wells across 10+ countries. Plus, they helped a customer produce 365 additional barrels a day.
  • Ranchbot saved a customer $150k and 30 field trips in one season using SKYWAVE satellite IoT