The Global Market for Internet of Things (IoT) is Forecast to Reach 41 Billion Connected Devices by 2024

Internetization of Businesses, Industries and Homes to Drive the Future of Internet of Things (IoT), According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

GIA launches comprehensive analysis of industry segments, trends, growth drivers, market share, size and demand forecasts on the global Internet of Things (IoT) market. The global market for Internet of Things (IoT) is forecast to reach 41 billion connected devices by 2024, driven by the frenzied pace of diffusion, adoption and deployment of internet-based technologies and processes.

The world is at the cusp of transformational change. Internet of Things (IoT) is redefining connectivity. IoT is driving change in the 21st century at dizzying speeds. The proliferation of the technology is almost universal in virtually every sector of society, economy and life. Connected devices are today increasingly becoming ubiquitous in manufacturing plants, warehouses, business processes, logistics systems, retail stores, hospitals, public/government services, smart cities, and consumer homes, among others. The technology is becoming the foundation for social, business and economic innovation that promises to generate value to human civilization in ways hitherto thought impossible. Despite the seeming omnipresence of the technology, IoT is still in the early stages of evolution.

Venture capital (VC) investments in the technology are gaining strong momentum as the technology categorically proves it’s’ might in generating real world value and benefits.  In the consumer sector, IoT promises to offer unprecedented convenience, automated control, and safety by intelligently connecting household appliances, and consumer mobile devices. In the public sector, it promises to enable better and more sustainable management of scarce natural resources such as water, gas, electricity, fuel; reduce pollution; provide more responsive public services and help build smart and fully integrated cities for the world’s continuously growing population. In the enterprise sector, the technology promises to build more profitable companies by providing them with intuitive business intelligence to support decision-making that enables provision of more responsive services; provide enhanced experiences to consumers, reduce wastage of resources and operational costs and pass on efficiency gains to consumers and society at large.  In the healthcare care, the technology brings the promises of providing affordable and equitable healthcare through telehealth; reduce healthcare costs; enhanced management of drugs, improved patient and disease management, reduced risks of errors and social and financial burden associated with preventable infections and co-morbidities.

Few of the factors supporting growth in the market include rise of cloud computing as a backbone technology for IoT; rapidly plummeting costs of IoT sensors; developments in big data analytics geared to drive real world commercial benefits of IoT; omnipresence of smartphones and tablets given their role as gateways for controlling and monitoring IoT devices; developments in internet and broadband technologies; rise of wireless short range communications; application of blockchain and its resulting revolutionizing influence on IoT security; and growing Investments in 4G/LTE & 5G, among others.

As stated by the new market research report on Internet of Things (IoT), Asia-Pacific represents the largest and the fastest growing market worldwide with a CAGR of 33.3% over the analysis period. Growth in the region is led by the development of the Internet and telecom infrastructure; digitalizing lifestyles of the middle class population and a parallel increase in appetite for digital consumer technologies; growing cloud readiness of Asian economies; rising smartphone penetration; falling cost of connected devices; growing focus on achieving business, industrial, and manufacturing productivity improvements via deployment of disruptive technologies like IoT and rising acknowledgement of the fact that internetization is currently the most basic prerequisite for developing countries to achieve internationalization goals. 

Major players in the market include Bitdefender, DigiCert, Gemalto N.V., Karamba Security, Symantec Corporation, Trustwave Holdings Inc., Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Amazon Web Services, Google Inc., Microsoft Corporation, General Electric Company, Salesforce.com Inc., Telit Communications PLC, Zebra Technologies Corporation, ARM Ltd., Bosch Software Innovations GmbH, Honeywell International Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, InvenSense Inc., IBM Corporation, STMicroelectronics N.V., Atmel Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Intel Corporation, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Texas Instruments, AT&T Inc., Telefónica S.A., Vodafone Group Plc, Verizon Communications Inc., Ayla Networks, B-Scada, CLX Communications, ErgoTech Systems, Fujitsu Limited, Greenwave Systems, Ingenu Inc., Silver Spring Networks, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and SAP SE, among others

The research report titled “Internet of Things (IoT): A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities of global companies.  The report provides market estimates and projections for all major geographic markets such as the USA, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK Spain and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Internet of Things market is analyzed by two major end-use sectors that include Consumer and Industrial/Business sectors. Further, value analytics in the Internet of Things market is analyzed by Technology that include Services, Security, Applications & Analytics and Others (including IoT Sensors, Communication Modules, Microcontrollers, and Processors) and by end-use sectors including Manufacturing/Industrial, Transportation & Logistics, Utilities, Consumer (B2C), Healthcare, Retail and Others (includes Government, and Insurance among Other sectors.


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