Edge AI is moving from add-on boards into MCU silicon. This week, ST and Microchip both shipped embedded AI acceleration and production toolchains, IoT Analytics declared the dashboard era over as enterprise IoT hit $324B, Mitsubishi Electric closed its $1B acquisition of Nozomi Networks, and Dragos reported threat actors now map industrial control loops. The connecting thread: edge AI, fleet security, and enterprise IoT are graduating from pilot to baseline.

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.

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

Satellite IoT just graduated from backup link to core infrastructure. Issue #2605 of the Smart Tangibles News Digest tracks how buyers now rank security and resilience above bandwidth, why forecasts put satellite IoT on a 24% CAGR path to 2035, how NTN NB IoT with a single SIM is becoming real, and how regulators and EU security programs are reshaping the design of connected hardware and services.

Smart Tangibles News Digest - Issue #2603 examines how Edge AI has moved from slideware to silicon. This Smart Tangibles News Digest covers Infineon’s PSoC Edge MCUs with built in AI and PSA Level 4 security, MediaTek’s domain specific IoT platform for smart retail, Silicon Labs’ push into AI enabled meters and electronic shelf labels, fresh forecasts putting edge AI on an 8x growth path, and a 2026 Matter status review that shows real progress - and lingering platform fricti

IoT Tech Expo Global 2026 (Feb 4-5, London) brings together industry leaders from Merck, JPMorganChase, BMW, and Rolls-Royce to discuss edge computing, digital twins, and IoT security. Key sessions cover AI analytics, 5G connectivity, predictive maintenance, and embedded intelligence. Features 200+ exhibitors showcasing next-gen IoT solutions for smart manufacturing, connected devices, and industrial automation. Essential event for enterprise IoT decision-makers.

This year’s Smart Tangibles Digest reviews the most consequential IoT shifts of 2025. From interoperability and security moving into execution, to hybrid connectivity, scalable 5G RedCap, and edge AI reaching the MCU layer, Issue #2508 highlights how the foundations for operational, long-lived connected products solidified over the year.

This week's digest signals a shift in IoT from “connected” devices to “operational” systems. IoT stacks are now judged less by feature checklists and more by autonomy, resilience, deployability, and service-backed distribution - how well they run independently, survive real-world failures, and integrate smoothly across environments.

This week is all about the smart home plumbing that most users never see: new Matter and Thread capabilities, a big Zigbee update, and the first real global framework for consumer IoT security labels. Together they sketch the guardrails and transport pipes your next generation smart tangible will have to ride on.

Digital twins, edge AI, sensor-as-a-service, AI-ready MCUs, and software-defined buildings. This week’s Smart Tangibles Digest maps the key shifts shaping next-generation connected products.

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

Here’s this week’s Smart Tangibles digest - focused on product strategy for connected hardware, IoT, Policy, UX, and Manufacturing.