The market research company Juniper Research has concluded that growth on the IoT (Internet of Things) market will come mainly from the business segment in areas such as retail, agriculture, smart buildings and smart grids.
The business-end sector of IoT devices is gaining ground. The market of Internet of Things (IoT) will grow up to 38 billion devices by 2020. This is what Juniper Research is estimating, and it represents an increase of 285% compared to the 13.4 billion of devices currently in use.
Juniper explained that the bulk of the growth will come from the business segment, in areas such as retail, agriculture, smart buildings and smart grids, rather than from the consumer market of smart home applications.
Juniper published the report The Internet of Things: Consumer, Industrial & Public Services from 2015 to 2020.
Michelin and John Deere, for example, have successfully transitioned their businesses towards being service based companies through the use of IoT, as opposed to their previous incarnations as product vendors.
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The British government is also pushing stores to embrace smart technologies, from big data and IoT, to increasing productivity by automating the supply chain and accelerating the delivery and efficiency in warehouse management.
 
Also betting on Internet of Things (IoT) are Google (which recently unveiled Project Brillo), Intel (which has bought the German Lantiq and recently Altera for 16.7 billion dollars, in order to pocket chips for mobile and fixed broadband and  Programmable Logic Devices, reconfigurable complex digital circuits for the cloud era respectively), Cisco Systems and Telco companies (Vodafone and Verizon in pole position).
Some time ago Google also acquired Nest Labs for $ 3.2 billion (manufacturer of smart thermostats and smart smoke detectors).  In order to enter this growing market, Google also acquired Nest Labs for $ 3.2 billion (manufacturer of smart thermostats and smart smoke detectors), while Apple introduced its app Homekit and Samsung paid $ 200 million to acquire SmartThings, a startup making software that can help control…everything, from closing doors to switching on lights.
Cisco has announced an IoT system for Smart Cities and enterprises – a suite of hardware and software, meant as an infrastructure for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) networks, such as smart cities.
The Cisco product covers six areas: network connectivity, security, data analytics, application development, automation and system management and distributed computing.
 
Project Brillo is the operating system developed by Google for the Internet of Things (IoT), derived from Android, but simplified to the bottom layer.
Brillo supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, Android and other requirements. “Weave” is the communications layer for IoT.
Weave allows Brillo devices, smartphones and the Internet to communicate with each other. Weave is cross-platform and comes with API for developers.
Brillo is expected in the third quarter of this year, and Weave in the fourth and they will challenge Apple HomeKit: act as software that interconnects IoTs, or any device equipped with sensors and able to communicate with each other
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