IoT

Investment Outlook

Steady

Market Size

Established

What It Is

The Internet of Things describes physical devices embedded with sensors and network connectivity, able to collect and exchange data without human involvement. It ranges from consumer smart home products to industrial sensor networks monitoring factory equipment.

The commercial value sits less in the devices themselves than in what the resulting data enables.

Where Capital Is Going

Industrial IoT for predictive maintenance and process optimisation
Device management and fleet orchestration platforms
Low-power connectivity and long-life battery technology
Security for large and often long-lived device fleets
Edge processing to reduce data transmission cost

Key Applications

Predictive maintenance in manufacturing and energy
Smart building and energy management
Fleet tracking and cold chain monitoring
Agricultural sensing and irrigation control
Remote patient and asset monitoring

Challenges

Security across fleets of devices that may run for a decade or more
Fragmented standards and interoperability
Power and connectivity constraints in remote deployments
Data volume and the cost of transmitting it
Long enterprise sales cycles and pilot purgatory

Major Companies

Who's building in this space.

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