The CEO of Ericsson as predicted that here will be 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020.
(From Wired magazine).
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The CEO of Ericsson as predicted that here will be 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020.
(From Wired magazine).
This is a misleading stat (like 93.8% of stats). Take it in context – in my house we have 2 mobile phones, a router, a laptop, a PC, a television, XBox, Wii and DS that are connected to the Internet. That’s 9 devices straight away, just in my house.
Most traffic lights are being upgraded to have IP connectivity as well, and in London alone it feels like there’s 50 billion of the things.
I agree. I saw a figure of 1 trillion devices by 2014 from Cisco recently, so one or other is wildly off the mark!