The IoT, Internet of Things, is much talked about, but is it really important? We have some facts for you that might allow you to decide for yourself.
Harsha Kiran has collected data from a wide range of sources to produce a survey of the current state of the IoT. The scale of the IoT is already huge and is growing exponentially.
According to research, there are already more devices connected to the internet than the number of people on earth. According to CISCO trend forecast, there will be more than 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020. BI Intelligence shows that there will be more than 34 billion devices and according to Gartner Inc. trend forecast there will be 20.8 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020. For this reason, the current space in IPv4 cannot hold all the addresses and hence the need to upgrade to IPv6 that can hold addresses for all atoms on the earth’s surface.
