It is unlikely that 2016 will see any single winner emerging to dominate wireless connectivity for the Internet of Things. In the wide area, the 3GPP-backed initiatives – NB-IoT, EC-GSM and LTE-M – will gain momentum, but there will still be an important role for options in unlicensed spectrum, such as LoRaWAN. In the smart home, there will be continued jostling between the various WPAN (wireless personal area network) protocols, as well as higher layer would-be standards like AllJoyn and the Open Interconnect Consortium’s IoTivity. Rather than the hugely diverse IoT uniting around a single platform in each market, convergence is likely to come in certain layers which can then allow multiple standards to interoperate. One will be high up…