Whats Hot in IoT 2018?

Get to know the hottest IoT applications for 2018.

14:28 05 December 2017

IoT is expected to broaden its presence in numerous sectors, including industrial, energy and transportation as well as retail and healthcare in 2018. 

 

Rohit Mehra, IDC vice president for network infrastructure research, said: “Newer use cases and deployment across distributed enterprise, retail and logistics, healthcare and smart cities will provide increased momentum across these verticals,” he said.

 

Meanwhile, Kilton Hopkins, Northeastern University Silicon Valley campus IoT program director, said that one of the major roles that IoT will play in 2018 involves the coordination of high-value infrastructure that occupies relatively large geographical areas.

 

“Many verticals still have business operations that involve manual observation of equipment status, inventory levels, and other key metrics,” he said. “Where there is currently manual observation, there may be a great opportunity for a high-ROI project involving IoT. Some verticals that have a lot of manual observations are oil and gas, energy distribution, supply chain and telecommunications.”

 

Northeastern University Silicon Valley dean P.K. Agarwal, added: “Device management and connectivity management has been around for several years already, but now that the pieces of IoT systems are coming together to form whole enterprise-scale solutions, management of these solutions has become higher up on the ‘tech wishlist’ for organizations,” he said.