As we venture into the colder months ahead, IoT implementation has only sped up. The speed of adoption and market strengths can be associated with strong alliances between leading IIoT players, proven IIoT applications and a clear focus on the improvement of operational efficiency. Location intelligence, predictive analytics, and big data are considered the most valuable use cases to leverage IoT data. In addition, the IIoT Consortium shares its first testbed results.