This editorial appears in the July 2022 edition (Issue 6) of the Wi-Fi Alliance® Wi-Fi 6E Insights newsletter, a quarterly newsletter sharing updates on regulatory developments in the growing Wi-Fi 6E ecosystem. To subscribe to the newsletter, please 

What are IoT and IIoT?The Internet of Things (IoT) devices read sensors and exchange data over the internet. Long battery life and seamless internet connectivity are necessary for these systems' reliable deployment and maintenance.

In 2021, Wi-Fi Alliance® introduced QuickTrack as a new path for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ testing.

The global push for connectivity has triggered innovation in Wi-Fi® that will extend beyond the pandemic. Hybrid world, a new term, has been coined which has altered the way we go about our daily chores. It has touched and influenced every aspect of our life interactions—office, education, health, retail, meeting, and entertainment—giving rise to newer ways of doing things.

Wi-Fi® is a critical complement to cellular, with its own unique advantagesWi-Fi carries more than half of today’s mobile data traffic and will continue to complement cellular – LTE or 5G – networks to serve critical business operations. Wi-Fi and 5G are strong complements in many next generation connectivity scenarios.

Wi-Fi® is ubiquitousThe vision of Wi-Fi Alliance® is to connect everyone and everything, everywhere.Wi-Fi Alliance members are certainly making significant progress. Consumers are widely adopting Wi-Fi and are demanding more from Wi-Fi than ever before. New technologies, such as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ Release 2, are helping to deliver on today’s connectivity demands.

This editorial appears in the April 2022 edition (Issue 5) of the Wi-Fi Alliance® Wi-Fi 6E Insights newsletter, a quarterly newsletter sharing updates on regulatory developments in the growing Wi-Fi 6E ecosystem. To subscribe to the newsletter, please 

Wi-Fi Location™ can enable application developers and other solutions implementers to provide a variety of services for device to device use cases, as well as infrastructure mode use cases involving one or more access points (APs).

Wi-Fi Alliance® honors ‘Top Certifiers’, recognizing members who have the most Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ products each year

This article originally ran in Information Age.