IoT Industry Confronts Pilot Purgatory At Expo

At the IoT Tech Expo 2026 in London, industry leaders, engineers, and enterprise architects convened on day two to examine why most enterprise IoT projects remain stuck in pilot phases and fail to scale to production. Panelists identified interoperability, connectivity infrastructure, data management, cybersecurity, and organizational readiness as core barriers, urging modular connectivity, edge computing, open APIs, and business-led scaling strategies.