It is the Internet of Things, but with an enterprise angle. Take that to mean industry vertical applications, development ecosystems, product design, hardware, deployment and more.
Fifty billion connected devices by 2020. And 8.4 billion devices running by the end of 2017. When it comes to IoT, monumental numbers like this commonly cited by big networking providers, like Cisco, or research firms, like Gartner, seem to get all the attention. But companies implementing IoT often overlook the nuts and bolts of how they will handle the massive amount of data transmitted by all of these devices, how they will keep those devices secure, and how they will remotely manage them and keep them up to date. It is a huge undertaking that requires planning, the right skill sets and, quite possibly, a quality partner.