IoT Now Magazine Q3 2026

Where your IoT data is processed matters more every quarter. It shapes latency, cost and compliance.

More and more it also decides whether physical AI works once it leaves the lab.

That idea runs through the latest issue of IoT Now, and it’s at the heart of this issue’s cover story with Stacuity.

Here’s a look at what’s inside:

• Building local data breakout capabilities in every market is too expensive for most operators, and rarely cost effective. Stacuity CEO John Freeman explains why, and how Stacuity changes that. The approach is modelled on what hyperscale cloud did for compute. He describes how shared infrastructure can still keep every customer’s traffic separate, and looks at why AI is making where data goes a more urgent question.

• Stacuity in the field: Cubic3 and A1 Digital. Two case studies from two very different businesses. One is expanding connected vehicle services in Brazil. The other is taking edge capabilities into new international markets. Both faced the same decision about packet gateways for local breakout. Read how each one made it.

• The edge question no supplier is paid to answer. Kai Hackbarth spent 25 years building IoT platforms. He explains how a device in São Paulo can end up looking European to everything it talks to, and gives five questions to put to your suppliers before you sign.

• The connectivity layer that physical AI can’t overlook. An exclusive seven-page report from Analysys Mason, sponsored by floLIVE, on connecting IoT devices to edge AI infrastructure.

Also in this issue: How managed packet gateways can help IoT exploit the network edge (with input from Stacuity), Counterpoint Research’s ranking of the satellite IoT race, Transforma Insights on how AI is turning a connected IoT stack into an intelligent one, and previews of MWC26 Doha and IoT Tech Expo Europe.

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