Enterprise IoT is fading into the background as hardware, networks, and AI push toward autonomous operations. This Smart Tangibles News Digest tracks how IoT in energy races toward a $285.9B market, how Vodafone and Skylo’s NTN NB IoT make anywhere coverage realistic, how Ikea’s Matter rollout exposes real world frictions, and how ARBOR’s edge AI systems turn devices into modular data center grade nodes at the edge.

By Yoel Frischoff | February 2026 | TheRoad IoT Tech Expo Global 2026 at the Olympia I spent two days at Olympia London last week, wandering the halls of IoT Tech Expo Global 2026. After 25 years in product strategy – much of it at the intersection of hardware and software – I've developed a filter for these events: ignore the buzzwords, watch for the shifts in conversation. This year, the conversation shifted. Why London, Not Vegas CES gets the headlines. The glitzy product

Ikea smart-home rotary dial remote control Announcement IKEA j ust announced a full smart-home reboot – A barrage of 21 new Matter -based products launching in parallel. Bulbs, sensors, remotes, plugs – all redesigned, all cheaper, all built on an open source multi-vendor interoperability standard. What is the Matter standard, and why does it matter? Matter is a universal smart-home standard designed to eliminate compatibility problems between devices from different manufa