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“DATA COLLECTED FROM IOT-ENABLED DEVICES CAN ALSO BE ANALYSED TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS OR CONSTRUCT DIGITAL TWINS OF REAL WORLD SPACES FOR YET MORE INSIGHTS ”
speeds will make IoT devices smarter , while also generating huge amounts of data and potential security risks .
Telecommunications industry body GSMA produced a white paper on the subject , in collaboration with Ericsson and others , detailing the potential benefits to IoT provided by the next generation of communications technology : “ Mobile IoT delivers connectivity on a massive scale today and will continue to do so in the 5G future enabling key IoT applications such as smart metering to help reduce energy consumption , smart logistics to enhance distribution efficiency and smart environmental monitoring to reduce city pollution .”
IoT , then , is making headway across a broad range of industries , and offering transformative new approaches to old problems . Gartner predicts that the enterprise and automotive IoT market alone will feature 5.8 billion endpoints
MAY 2020