Monday, November 23, 2020

Connected IoT Devices Now Outnumber Phones and other Human-Used Devices

There now are more IoT devices(connected cars, smart home devices, connected industrial equipment) than phones, laptops, and computers connected to communications networks, says IoT Analytics. There are 21.7 billion active connected devices worldwide, and IoT appliances now represent 11.7 billion (54 percent) of those connections.


By 2025, it is expected that there will be more than 30 billion IoT connections, IoT Analytics says.  


source: IoT Analytics 


The vast majority of those devices will be connected to a local area network of some type, including short-range connectivity such as Bluetooth to premises systems such as Wi-Fi. Perhaps a quarter of all connections will use a public network of some type. 

source: IoT Analytics 


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