As written (twice), the truth about private 5G, certainly so far as IoT and Industry 4.0 goes, can be found somewhere between the desperate excitement of MWC and the distracted indifference of Hannover Messe. And of these twin events, which bookend the spring season and dictate the rest of the industrial tech calendar, the mood in the industrial IoT user market in 2023 invariably lies closer to the gleichgültigkeit (we had to look that up!) of the big German fair – if only because it takes a vertical focus, instead of just a horizontal one, and so the crosshairs more easily align.
