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Friday, October 21, 2016

Futurecom 2016 - Equipment manufacturers believe that IoT is the present and that progress in projects shoould be made without delay

Players of the IoT day- to- day -Manufacturers of modules, chips, providers of specific services- responded in less than an hour to many questions that went unanswered through the panels of large operators and government authorities in the previous days.

Ricardo Buranello, VP of Telit Latinoamérica, said that "IoT is the present: any application wanted to be developed can be materialized. There are currently 250 companies in Brazil manufacturing IoT hardware, with different technologies: LoRA, bluetooth, geolocation modules, GSM". For the executive, entrepreneurs do not know that IoT can already be made without need for specific plans or regulatory frameworks. In the same vein José Almeida, Marketing Manager of NXP, manufacturer of chips especially for connected cars and for the industrial sector said that: "We should not wait for the "big" technology. What there is now is good enough".

The executives put as an example the failure of the government initiative in Brazil to install trackers on vehicles. In dialogue with Convergencialatina, Buranello said that more than seven years ago, the traffic agency Denatran, presented the initiative, and a huge expectation was generated due to the volume of the park to be connected. Telit even decided to set up an office in Brazil to meet that demand. "But it made no progress because the user does not need that government tells him that he must put a tracker. The automotive industry awaited for the regulation, and finally only 4% of cars are connected in Brazil, and 137 companies arising from the initial expectations were reduced to a few dozen today".

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