General IoT

There are now more than 1,000 startups creating Internet of Things (IoT) products or services, according to the IoT Startups Report & Database 2019 by IoT Analytics. Starting with a long-list of more than 3,000 companies that claim they work on Internet of Things solutions, the analyst team at IoT Analytics verified and classified 1,018 upcoming firms around the world that are active today,...

As we go into 2019 the IoT Analytics team has again evaluated the main IoT developments of the past year in the global “Internet of Things” arena. This article highlights some general observations as well as our top 10 stories from 2018. (For your reference, here is our 2017 IoT year in review article.) A. General IoT 2018 observations 18bn connected devices – thereof 7bn IoT...

IoT Investments & M&A Update 2018 The recently released IoT Investments & M&A Report 2018 shows that overall IoT funding has stabilized at healthy levels. The last 12 months saw $3.3B in total recorded IoT investments. At the same time, successful exits such as Relayr’s recent $300M acquisition by MunichRe are increasing. The total number of acquisitions/exits saw...

After highlighting the top 10 stories of IoT in 2017, the IoT Analytics team looks back at the IoT predictions they made a year ago and ventures a prognosis on the 10 things that seem likely for IoT in 2018. Evaluation of our 2017 IoT Predictions Last year, we at IoT Analytics, made 4 IoT predictions (as part of the 2016 in review article) of which we believe most did turn into reality (Except...