In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has proved to be one of the most crucial technologies of the 21st century, making it possible to connect people and things seamlessly and automate processes. With continued technological advances, IoT has become more important now than ever before, reducing human effort for several activities and providing tons of data, for later on be processed and give place to meaningful information. 

The benefits of IoT are endless: from providing users with a better life quality (through automation and automatic decision making) and automating menial processes, like turning the lights on automatically, to helping organizations make successful data-driven decisions. But all this would not be possible without excellent and seamless connectivity. That is a reliable and continuous connection between a host network and an IoT platform via a special SIM: the IoT SIM.

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1<#assign 
2layouts = themeDisplay.getLayouts() 
3local = themeDisplay.getLocale() 
4layoutLocalService = serviceLocator.findService("com.liferay.portal.kernel.service.LayoutLocalService") 
5extendedSeq = []> 
6<#-- set locale for freemarker date otherwise months are not translated in the current language --> 
7<#setting locale= local> 
8 
9<#list layouts as mainpage> 
10    <#if mainpage.getFriendlyURL(local) == '/business'  && 
11    layout.getFriendlyURL(local)?starts_with('/business')> 
12        <#list mainpage.getChildren() as homeSubPages> 
13            <#if homeSubPages.getFriendlyURL(local) == '/business/blog'> 
14            <#-- homeSubPages is blog homepage --> 
15                <#list homeSubPages.getChildren() as articlesBlogPages> 
16                    <#if articlesBlogPages.getFriendlyURL(local) == '/business/blog/articles'> 
17                        <#list articlesBlogPages.getChildren() as categoriesBlogPages> 
18                            <#assign currentCategory = categoriesBlogPages 
19                            isArticleCategoryPage = false 
20                            isArticleSubcategoryPage = false> 
21                            <#list categoriesBlogPages.getChildren() as subCategoriesBlogPages> 
22                                <#assign currentSubCategory = subCategoriesBlogPages 
23                                listArticles = subCategoriesBlogPages.getChildren()> 
24                                <#if listArticles??> 
25                                    <#list listArticles as articleElement> 
26                                        <#assign dateArticle = articleElement.getExpandoBridge().getAttribute('Blog display date from') 
27                                        authorPageUrl = articleElement.getExpandoBridge().getAttribute('Blog author page url') 
28                                        authorTruncatedUrl = "/business" + authorPageUrl?keep_after("/business") 
29                                        authorPage = layoutLocalService.getFriendlyURLLayout(groupId, false, authorTruncatedUrl) 
30                                        authorImage = authorPage.getExpandoBridge().getAttribute('Blog image url') 
31                                        articleImage = articleElement.getExpandoBridge().getAttribute('Blog image url')> 
32                                        <#if authorPage.getFriendlyURL(local) == layout.getFriendlyURL(local)> 
33                                            <#assign 
34                                            <#-- insert the article required data inside the hash --> 
35                                            articlePagesHash = {"date": dateArticle?datetime, "friendlyUrl": articleElement.getRegularURL(request), 
36                                            "categoryName": currentCategory.getHTMLTitle(local), "categoryUrl": currentCategory.getRegularURL(request), 
37                                            "subCategoryName": currentSubCategory.getHTMLTitle(local), "subCategoryUrl": currentSubCategory.getRegularURL(request), 
38                                            "articleImage": articleImage, "articleTitle": articleElement.getHTMLTitle(local), 
39                                            "articleDescription": articleElement.getDescription(local), "authorName": authorPage.getHTMLTitle(local), 
40                                            "authorFriendlyUrl": authorPage.getRegularURL(request), "authorImage": authorImage} 
41                                            extendedSeq += [articlePagesHash]> 
42                                        </#if> 
43                                    </#list> 
44                                </#if> 
45                            </#list> 
46                        </#list> 
47                    </#if> 
48                </#list> 
49            </#if> 
50        </#list> 
51    </#if> 
52</#list> 
53 
54<#assign sortedListArticlePagesByDate = extendedSeq?sort_by("date")?reverse> 
55 
56<#if sortedListArticlePagesByDate?size != 0> 
57    <section class="module module-cards-article" > 
58        <div class="container"> 
59            <div class="row justify-content-center"> 
60                <div class="col-lg-12"> 
61 
62                    <div class="title-wrapper"> 
63                        <h3 class="bottom-cut">${Title.getData()} ${layout.getHTMLTitle(local)}</h3> 
64                    </div> 
65 
66                    <div class="content-list"> 
67                        <div class="row"> 
68                            <#list sortedListArticlePagesByDate as articles> 
69                                <div class="col-lg-4"> 
70                                    <div class="card card-article card-article-small"> 
71                                        <div class="card-wrapper"> 
72                                            <div> 
73                                                <div class="card-img-wrapper"> 
74                                                    <a data-senna-off="true" href="${articles.friendlyUrl}"> 
75                                                        <img src="${articles.articleImage}" class="img-fluid object-fit" alt=""> 
76                                                    </a> 
77                                                </div> 
78 
79                                                <div class="card-text-wrapper"> 
80                                                    <div class="badge-wrapper"> 
81                                                        <a data-senna-off="true" href="${articles.categoryUrl}" class="badge badge-small badge-blue-business ">${articles.categoryName}</a> 
82                                                        <a data-senna-off="true" href="${articles.subCategoryUrl}" class="badge badge-small badge-blue-business ">${articles.subCategoryName}</a> 
83                                                    </div> 
84 
85                                                    <h3><a data-senna-off="true" href="${articles.friendlyUrl}">${articles.articleTitle}</a></h3> 
86                                                    <p>${articles.articleDescription}</p> 
87                                                </div> 
88                                            </div> 
89                                            <div> 
90                                                <a data-senna-off="true" href="${articles.friendlyUrl}" class="btn btn-link" 
91                                                    <#if LinkLabel.LinkAriaLabel?? && 
92                                                    LinkLabel.LinkAriaLabel?has_content && 
93                                                    LinkLabel.LinkAriaLabel.getData()?has_content> 
94                                                    aria-label="${LinkLabel.LinkAriaLabel.getData()}"</#if>> 
95                                                    ${LinkLabel.getData()} <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a> 
96                                                <div class="card-details-wrapper"> 
97                                                    <div class="author"> 
98                                                        <div class="author-img-wrapper"> 
99                                                            <img src="${articles.authorImage}" class="img-fluid object-fit" alt=""> 
100                                                        </div> 
101                                                        <div> 
102                                                            <p class="title">${AuthorLabel.getData()}</p> 
103                                                            <a data-senna-off="true" href="${articles.authorFriendlyUrl}" 
104                                                               class="value stretched-link" 
105                                                                    <#if AuthorLabel.AuthorAriaLabel?? && 
106                                                            AuthorLabel.AuthorAriaLabel?has_content && 
107                                                            AuthorLabel.AuthorAriaLabel.getData()?has_content> 
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109                                                                ${articles.authorName} 
110                                                            </a> 
111                                                        </div> 
112                                                    </div> 
113                                                    <div class="date"> 
114                                                        <p class="title">${PublicationLabel.getData()}</p> 
115                                                        <p class="value">${articles.date?string["dd MMMM yyyy"]}</p> 
116                                                    </div> 
117                                                </div> 
118                                            </div> 
119                                        </div> 
120                                    </div> 
121                                </div> 
122                            </#list> 
123                        </div> 
124                    </div> 
125                </div> 
126            </div> 
127        </div> 
128    </section> 
129</#if> 

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