Companies globally are adopting IoT to improve operational efficiency, create better customer experiences, improve their business models, and create new revenue streams. The Sierra Wireless challenge was to find the best way to reliably deliver industry-specific solutions for advanced IoT endeavors. This includes securely connecting edge devices to the cloud, developing software/API services to help manage processes associated with billions of connected assets, and offering a platform to extract real-time data to help customers make the best business decisions.