State of IoT Spring 2025

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The report includes
- Overview and summary
- Global macroeconomic environment (indicators and their impact on IoT)
- General IoT business sentiment (how macro themes affect IoT and the broader technology markets)
- Updated IoT market (size and forecast on IoT enterprise spending)
- Major tech trends affecting IoT (trends that are currently affecting IoT)
- Recent IoT news (new product launches, and announcements)
- IoT workforce developments (Hiring statistics and layoffs by technology vendors and end users)
- IoT/digital sentiment by region (CEO quotes on short- and mid-term IoT/digital business sentiment)
- IoT/digital sentiment by vertical/industry (CEO quotes on short- and mid-term IoT/digital business sentiment by segment)
- IoT start-up investment and M&A activity (top recent IoT-related investments, funding rounds, and acquisitions)
Table of Contents
State of IoT – Spring 2025 (PDF)
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- Executive summary
- Executive Summary
- Reminder: How IoT Analytics defines the “Internet of Things”
- Key findings from selected IoT Analytics reports in Q3 2024–Q4 2024
- Global macroeconomic environment
- The macro view: Key indicators 2019–2024
- The macro view: 8 key themes to watch
- Global business sentiment of earnings calls by sector
- General IoT business sentiment
- How macro themes affect IoT and the broader technology markets
- The role of IoT in corporate earnings calls
- Industrial automation market view
- Updated IoT market
- Global IoT enterprise market forecast (spending in $B)
- Global IoT enterprise market forecast by segment (spending in $B)
- Global IoT enterprise market forecast by technology (spending in $B)
- Global IoT enterprise market forecast by region (spending in $B)
- IoT adoption by region (based on roll-out share of different IoT use cases)
- IoT adoption by industry (based on roll-out share of different IoT use cases)
- IoT use case adoption by detailed industry
- IoT use case adoption by region and industry (Comparison 2024 vs. 2021)
- Global adoption of IoT use cases
- Adoption of IoT use cases: Comparison 2024 vs. 2021
- Major tech trend affecting IoT
- Overview of key trends affecting IoT
- Trend 1
- Trend 2
- Trend 3
- Trend 4
- Trend 5
- Trend 6
- Trend 7
- Trend 8
- Trend 9
- Trend 10
- Trend 11
- Trend 12
- Trend 13
- Recent IoT news
- Q3/Q4 2024 IoT news at a glance—Summary of key highlights
- Product launch news: Chipsets/sensors/hardware
- Product launch news: Industrial automation
- Product launch news: Connectivity
- Product launch news: Platforms and middleware
- Product launch news: Security
- Product launch news: Applications/solutions
- Product launch news: AIoT
- IoT workforce developments
- The tech job market: Hiring
- The tech job market: Layoffs
- The tech job market: Layoffs—Recent layoffs in tech companies
- IoT/digital sentiment by region
- Regional outlooks
- IoT/digital sentiment by vertical/industry
- Sector outlook
- Investments and M&A activity
- Global funding of IoT companies: 2017 until now
- Global funding of IoT companies: Top investments since Q3 ‘24
- Global funding of IoT companies: Country/tech stack split
- Top 20 IoT-related start-up funding rounds from Q3–Q4 ’24
- Zoom-in on the three biggest funding rounds in Q3/Q4 2024
- IoT-related acquisitions
- About IoT Analytics
- Executive summary
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About the report
Overview of the State of IoT 2025 report
The State of IoT Spring 2025 report is a current IoT market assessment and comprehensive summary of recent market actions, including a number of detailed insights generated by the IoT Analytics team. These insights are based on conferences and webinars, individual interviews and discussions, and individual research results derived from differentreports and models. The report also shows the results of our updated enterprise IoT market model and highlights from other recent reports.
The main purpose of this document is to broaden our readers’ knowledge of IoT and inform them about current trends shaping the market and short- and medium-term developments. All the discussed insights center around IoT-related topics but, in many instances, expand beyond IoT. The report presents a discussion of many current market developments, including the latest market environment and forecasts, regional and vertical focus areas, technology stack (cybersecurity, analytics/AI, platform/cloud, general software, connectivity, and hardware), and a discussion of investment and merger and acquisition (M&A) activities. Insights are substantiated with relevant examples and evidence.
Market developments and IoT business sentiment
The State of IoT 2025 report highlights the latest market movements, economic factors, and industry adoption patterns. The IoT market faced headwinds in 2024 due to macroeconomic challenges and regulatory changes, but early signs of recovery are evident, particularly in software-driven solutions and industrial IoT applications.
Technology trends shaping the State of IoT in 2025
The State of IoT 2025 report identifies several transformative trends shaping IoT technologies and applications:
- IoT enterprise spending slowdown and recovery trends
- Industries leading the IoT recovery
- Regional IoT adoption shifts
These trends are highlighted in the upcoming research article derived from the State of IoT Spring 2025 report.
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More insights can be found in the State of IoT Spring 2025 report, which provides an in-depth look at market trends, technology shifts, and regional adoption patterns.
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Related reading
A research article derived from this report: State of enterprise IoT in 2025: Market recovery, AI integration, and upcoming regulations.
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