Voting in December, the telecom companies and mobile operators that make up 3GPP membership will define what is to be in the latest standard.

“Ambient IoT will almost certainly be part of the release, the question is will it be a Study Item or a Work Item. We believe that Ambient IoT will be as big as the advent of the smartphone in terms of its impact on customers, businesses and society, and that it’s better to move forward incrementally and iteratively using the lessons learnt from deployment that have proven successful using other wireless technologies like Bluetooth ambient IoT,” said Steve Statler, CMO of (pictured).