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Operational Blindness in the Era of AIoT
Operational Blindness | IoT World IoT IoT World Explore Articles IoT World Special Series Operational Blindness Your IoT system is connected. So why are you still flying blind? Many organisations collect more operational data than ever before, yet their teams still struggle to detect problems early, understand what is happening,… Read More ⇢
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The Story Behind FAVORIOT
The Story Behind Favoriot | Nine Years of an IoT Startup FAVORIOT: The Story Read the Blog The Story Behind Favoriot, By Dr. Mazlan Abbas Nine years. Four failed products. One idea that finally worked. Before Favoriot became an IoT platform with partners across four countries, it was a founder’s… Read More ⇢
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Smart Cities in Indonesia: Why Scale Has Outpaced Coordination
Background Indonesia’s smart city journey formally began in 2017, when the Ministry of Communication and Informatics launched the Gerakan Menuju 100 Smart City (Movement Toward 100 Smart Cities) alongside the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, and Bappenas [1][2]. The programme guided selected cities and… Read More ⇢
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When Smart Cities Turn Dark: Why In-House IoT and Smart City Platforms Have Failed Worldwide
The Promise Versus the Reality Over the past two decades, governments and city administrations around the world have poured billions of dollars into building their own IoT platforms and smart city command centres. The pitch was always the same: sensors everywhere, dashboards showing everything, and officials making faster and better… Read More ⇢
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What IoT World Published in June 2026
IoT World: June 2026 Roundup IoT World iotworld.coYour IoT Journey Starts Here Monthly Roundup What We Published in June 2026 A month spent naming a problem most organisations did not know they had. Nine articles on Operational Blindness, factory floors, cold chains, cybersecurity talent, and the real economics of building… Read More ⇢
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Smart Cities in Malaysia: Why Ambition Has Outpaced Execution
Background Malaysia’s smart city journey began more than a decade ago, anchored by early flagship efforts such as Iskandar Malaysia, Smart Selangor, and the Putrajaya Smart City Blueprint [3][5]. The Ministry of Housing and Local Government later formalised this direction through the Malaysia Smart City Framework (MSCF) 2019 to 2025,… Read More ⇢
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Why Partnerships Have Become the New Competitive Advantage in IoT
For many years, IoT companies competed by building more devices, adding new platform features, or expanding their technical capabilities. Success was often measured by the sophistication of the technology rather than the business outcomes it produced. That market has changed. Today, customers rarely begin a conversation by asking about sensors,… Read More ⇢
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Part-8 (OB Series) – The Three Things That Actually Cure Operational Blindness (It Is Not a New Platform)
How many IoT platforms is enough? That is not a sarcastic question. It is the question sitting quietly in the mind of every CTO who has been handed another business case for another platform, another dashboard, another integration layer that promises, this time, to finally make sense of all the… Read More ⇢
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The Emergence of New Platform Category Called Operational Visibility Platform
Why is a new software category quietly forming around a problem most organizations don’t even know they have? For the past two decades, enterprise technology has chased a familiar sequence. Connect the assets. Collect the data. Build the dashboard. Layer on analytics. Eventually, promise AI. Billions have been spent following… Read More ⇢
