The Wireless IoT Forum (WIoTF), first announced in April, has launched formally and announced its founding and board members – Accenture, Arkessa, BT, Cisco, Telensa and WSN. The non-profit has set itself the ambitious goal of ending the fragmentation of the nascent IoT space between different protocols, and to drive consolidation in both licensed and licence-exempt wireless platforms. Collectively, the group’s mandate is to develop a clear set of operator requirements by talking to its members, enabling it to create a use case-driven roadmap for the wider ecosystem of companies and operators in the IoT. This is the approach which was adopted by the Small Cell Forum (initially the Femto Forum) so it comes as no surprise that several of…