How An SDSN Controlled Vision Can Lead IoT To Secure Future

- Sajan Paul

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been the talk of the technology world for a few years now. It has generated plenty of innovation and attention, but its rate of mass adoption has perhaps not been as widespread as many expected. While the vision of IoT remains the same, either the market or the infrastructure is not yet ready to enable its massive adoption.

Nonetheless, homeowners and enterprises who do not adopt IoT soon will fall behind the curve when it does catch on. Despite this so-called ‘slow adoption’, 30.7 billion IoT devices are expected to be connected by 2020 (there were 15.4 billion in 2015).

An IoT future where AI assistants can simply be attached to any object and connect it to the IoT is not far away. On a much larger scale, IoT can also enable governance of massive transportation and manufacturing ecosystems that are designed for the 21st century. Industry 4.0 and factories of the future are already here, and they run on IoT. Managing industrial and consumer IoT though, is easier said than done, and requires tremendous investment behind the scenes.