Research by Inmarsat, a leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has revealed that skills shortages are putting a brake on IoT innovation, inhibiting the adoption of the technology and the effectiveness of IoT deployments across businesses. These findings underline how little progress has been made in addressing skills shortages since the company’s 2018 report, which pinpointed that the skills gap was the top barrier to successful IoT deployments. This remains the case with organisations needing to do more to upskill, bring in new talent or work with outsourcers with the requisite skills.
According to the research, based on interviews with 450 global respondents across the agriculture, electrical utilities, mining, oil and gas, transport and logistics sectors, organisations don’t always have the skills they need to fully utilise their IoT projects. A lack of in-house skills remains the top barrier to IoT deployment for well over a third (37%) of all respondents in the study. In terms of the specific skill sets businesses need, half (50%) of all respondents stated that they lacked cybersecurity talent, closely followed by a need for additional staff with experience and skills in data science and analytics (49%), technical support (48%) and connectivity technology (47%).
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