State of IoT Summer 2024
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About the report
The State of IoT Summer 2024 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 in Q1 and Q2 2024. These insights are based on more than 30 (virtual) conferences and webinars, more than 100 individual interviews and discussions, and individual research results derived from different reports 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/artificial intelligence [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.
Table of Contents
State of IoT – Summer 2024 (PDF)
- Executive summary
- 1.1 Executive summary
- 1.2 How IoT Analytics defines the “Internet of Things”
- 1.3 Key findings from selected IoT Analytics reports in Q1 2024 –Q2 2024
- Global macroeconomic environment
- 2.1 The macro view—key indicators 2019-2024
- 2.2 The macro view—8 key themes to watch
- 2.3 Macro themes mentioned in corporate earnings calls in Q2 2024
- General IoT business sentiment
- 3.1 Corporate technology priorities 2019–2025
- 3.2 How macro themes affect IoT and the broader technology markets
- 3.3 Performance comparison of stock indicates and IoT ETF in 2023
- 3.4 General IoT business sentiment going into Q3 2024
- 3.5 Five hot IoT adoption themes/topics/areas for 3Q 2024
- Updated IoT market
- 4.1 Global IoT market forecast (in $B of connected IoT devices)
- 4.2 Global IoT market forecast (data table)
- 4.3 Why our forecast for the total number of IoT connections has changed
- 4.4 Global IoT enterprise market forecast
- 4.5 Global IoT enterprise market forecast by segment
- 4.6 Global IoT enterprise market forecast by technology
- 4.7 Global IoT enterprise market forecast by region
- 4.8 IoT Use Case snapshot
- Major tech trend affecting IoT
- 5.1 Major tech trends affecting IoT
- 5.2 AI (GenAI, edge AI and AIoT)
- 5.3 Connectivity
- 5.4 IoT security
- 5.5 Sustainability
- Current IoT trends – The analysts’ take
- 6.1 Analysts’ take on key tech trends and developments
- Recent IoT news
- 7.1 IoT regulation-related announcements
- 7.2 Government and public sector-related IoT news
- 7.3 Semiconductor investments news Q1 2024–Q2 2024
- 7.4 New IoT product launches
- 7.5 IoT news related to the cloud
- 7.6 Bugs/vulnerabilities news
- 7.7 Sustainability news
- 7.8 News related to AI&AIoT
- 7.9 Difference between IoT failure and IoT success in Formula 1
- IoT workforce developments
- 8.1 The tech job market: Job openings in the U.S. 2021–2024
- 8.2 The tech job market: Getting and developing AI skills is a top priority
- 8.3 Tech job market: Will Ai take our jobs?—Perspectives vary
- 8.4 Tech job market: Tech layoffs
- IoT/digital sentiment by region
- 9.1 Selected enterprise technology quotes on regions
- IoT/digital sentiment by vertical/industry
- 10.1 Selected enterprise technology quotes on verticals
- IoT/digital sentiment by tech stack
- 11.1 Selected quotes on tech stack trends
- Investments and M&A activity
- 12.1 Global funding of IoT companies—2017 until now
- 12.2 Top 100 IoT-related start-up funding rounds from Q1/Q2 ‘24
- 12.3 Zoom-in on the three biggest funding rounds from Q1/Q2 2024
- 12.4 Notable IoT-related IPOs from Q1/Q2 2024
- 12.5 IoT-related acquisitions
- 12.6 50-related acquisitions from Q1/Q2 2024
- IoT company revenues and stock performance
- 13.1 Reported revenues and stock performance of cloud/platform players
- 13.2 Reported revenues and stock performance of connectivity players
- 13.3 Reported revenues and stock performance of semiconductor players
- 13.4 Reported revenues and stock performance of security and system integration players
- 13.5 Reported revenues and stock performance of industrial automation and city and infrastructure players
- About IoT Analytics
Questions answered
- 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 and the number of connected devices)
- Major tech trends affecting IoT (trends that are currently affecting IoT)
- The analysts’ take (analysts providing their views of current market developments and trends)
- Recent IoT news (new regulations affecting IoT, government projects, product launches, security breaches, and more)
- IoT workforce developments (layoffs and job postings by IoT broader 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/digital sentiment by tech stack (CEO quotes on sentiment around software, cloud, platforms, cybersecurity, analytics/AI, connectivity, and hardware)
- IoT start-up investment and M&A activity (top recent IoT-related investments, funding rounds, initial public offerings, and acquisitions)
- IoT company revenues and stock performances (IoT-related revenues by IoT vendors and stock price performance)
Related reading
A research article based on this report: State of IoT 2024: Number of connected IoT devices growing 13% to 18.8 billion globally.
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