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The Significant IoT Trends and Technologies in 2024
The Significant IoT Trends and Technologies in 2024

January 5, 2024

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The incredible growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) made it a game-changer for digital transformation solutions, enabling a smarter and more connected world. The year 2024 is looking forward to bringing compelling trends and technologies in the IoT landscape.

In this blog, let’s explore the growth of IoT, the latest trends and its significance, indicating real-world use cases, and finally, envision the future of IoT.

The Influence of IoT Evolution

The key stage of IoT evolution was the rise of tiny sensors or smart devices such as smart

watches, and medical wearables that collect data in real-time, facilitating instantaneous decision-making capabilities. This evolution has highly influenced healthcare and Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications. As per Statista’s report, this transformative technology will be widely adopted, supporting massive connectivity above 75 billion devices by the year 2025.

With the advent of IoT, Industry 4.0 is revamping the manufacturing industries with a more connected and productive landscape. The development of smart factories and plants embraces IoT technologies to realize predictive maintenance and production optimization. This boosts production efficiency and improves resource utilization.

However, the increase in the number of devices leads to the generation of massive volumes of data from these devices. It becomes a challenge to handle these huge volumes of data, which is vital for intelligent decision-making in IoT applications. The integration of certain inducing technologies such as 5G, sustainability, edge computing, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a significant role in shaping the next phase of IoT development. Let’s probe into the key IoT trends in 2024.

Edge Computing

The migration of computing capabilities near where the data originates is stated as edge computing. Edge is making the cloud at the source possible. Storing and processing data close to where the application runs is necessary to realize faster processing power, reduced latency, and optimized bandwidth utilization. Enterprise focuses on storage-as-a-service solutions augmenting edge and cloud computing techniques to enhance the efficiency of IoT applications, making them much faster, reactive, and reliable.

5G Integration

One of the key use cases of 5G, massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) enables massive connectivity of billions of devices to the network, facilitating large-scale IoT deployments. Technology providers focus on cutting-edge networking and 5G technologies such as SD-WAN, Open RAN, network slicing, Private 5G, and telco cloud solutions to unlock innovative business transformation with IoT in the future. The integration of these pivotal technologies can deal with any complex networking operations.  

AI and Machine Learning

To realize distinct and high-performing IoT applications, it becomes important to make the devices smarter and more intelligent. The use of AI/ML techniques in IoT makes devices more adaptive which helps to analyze and collect significant insights from huge volumes of data generated in the network, optimizing the network performance. Organizations utilize these techniques to support managed analytics for proactive and preventive actions against any cyber-attacks and to automate the services.  

Cybersecurity

The proliferation of IoT devices also enhances the vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks. These tiny IoT devices need to be highly secured to prevent upstream attacks on the network. Proper security strategies such as the usage of advanced encryption techniques and continuous data monitoring are necessary to detect any anomalies in the network.

Sustainability

Sustainability has become one of the top priorities for technology enterprises. The increase in massive IoT deployments leads to increased energy consumption and higher usage of resources. It is necessary to create eco-friendly solutions which can reduce the carbon footprint realizing a sustainable future. IoT deployments should focus on efficient energy and resource management strategies to create a greener sustainable world.

By leveraging IoT technologies, many real-life use cases can be realized. Especially, as mentioned, IoT is gaining traction in various verticals such as healthcare, agriculture, industrial automation, and more. Smart cities, precision farming, and telemedicine are promptly turning into a reality with IoT. The use of IoT devices such as drones, sensors, and automated machinery enables real-time data gathering for updated decisions, realizing efficient and sustainable solutions.

Conclusion

The integration of key technology trends like 5G, AI, and edge computing with IoT, indicates a vivid and transformative period. The influence of IoT on diverse industry verticals highlights its capability to create an efficient and smarter world. However, certain challenges persist in terms of vulnerabilities and security in IoT deployments. To guarantee proper IoT deployments, the incorporation of different players such as enterprises, technology providers and government becomes pivotal. The year 2024 is foreseen as the start of a smarter, more intelligent, and more sustainable IoT era.

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