Did you know: By 2022 a home will contain 500 smart devices (MobileFuture)
Did you know: 57.9% of farmers use connected tech for farm management systems (Connected Nation)
Did you know: 7.6% of farmers are using autonomous equipment (Connected Nation)
Did you know: 40% of consumers check their phones within 5 minutes of waking up (Deloitte)
Did you know: 3.8% of farmers are using geo-fencing (Connected Nation)
Did you know: 23.1% of farmers are using UAV's (drones) (Connected Nation)
Did you know: the average consumer checks his/her smartphone 47 time per day; 18 - 24 year-olds check 82 times per day (Deloitte)
Did you know: 42.3% of farmers are using connected tech for nutrient management systems (Connected Nation)
Did you know: 5G will create 22 million jobs by 2035 (Qualcomm)
Did you know: The 5G value chain will generate up to $3.5 trillion in revenue in 2035 (Qualcomm)
Did you know: 5G is expected to create 3 million jobs provide $500B economic boost (Accenture, 2017)
Did you know: 45% of IT budgets will be allocated to IoT initiatives by 2020 (Machina Research)
Did you know: wireless carriers will invest up to $275 billion thru 2024 to build out 5G networks (Accenture, 2017)
Did you know: 79% of manufacturers indicate predictive maintenance was their #1 reason for adopting IoT (Machina Research)
Did you know: 5G system build-out thru 2024 will result in creation of 350,000 new construction jobs, and up to 850,000 when including suppliers and other partners (Accenture, 2017)
Did you know: 5G-powered Smart City solutions will produce $160B in benefits and savings from reduced energy usage, decreasing traffic congestion and lower fuel costs (Accenture, 2017)
Did you know: Apple's app store closed 2016 with 2.2 million apps, an increase of 20% over 2015 (Wireless Design Magazine)
Did you know: New mobility segment is expected to bring $1 Trillion to automobile industry by 2030 (KPMG)
Did you know: By 2019, airports will install sensors in: security check points (66%), bag-drop areas (61%), retail areas (60%), boarding gates (54%), and baggage claim (52%). (SITA)
Did you know: 36% of airports will install single biometric travel tokens for passenger identity management by 2021 (SITA)
Did you know: 36% of airports will install wearable-enabled services for passengers by 2021 (SITA)
Did you know: After cloud services, sensors at airports are the #1 new tech priority initiative by 2019, with 81% expected to be in a major or evaluation program with them. (SITA)
Did you know: Study of employers with at least 1,000 employees concluded that companies could save up to $6 Billion per year if employees used remote consults for appropriate medical problems (Towers Watson)
Did you know: 74% of airports will install context and location aware applications for passengers by 2021 (SITA)
Did you know: 41% of airports will take advantage of wearables (smartwatches, smart glasses) for staff by 2021 (SITA)
Did you know: There will be over 5M apps in the App Store by 2020 (Sensor Tower)
Did you know: U.S. telehealth spending per year will rise from just $240 million in 2014 to $2.2 billion in 2018 (IHS Technology)
Did you know: 41% of airports will install virtual reality services for passengers by 2021 (SITA)
Did you know: As of 2016, it is predict that there will be 7 million telehealth encounters in 2 years (IHS Technology)
Did you know: The number of developers currently working on IoT apps has increased 34% year over year (Evans Data Corp)
Did you know: 66% of mobile searchers have made a purchase (either online or in a store) after doing a related search on their smartphones in the past 3 months (Google Consumer Surveys)
Did you know: Projected Security spending on IoT in 2016 is $348 million and $547 million in 2018 (Gartner)
Did you know: Revenue from in-vehicle infotainment systems by 2020 is projected to be $600 million (Juniper Research)
Did you know: The market size of smart cities in 2015 was $52 billion (MarketsandMarkets)
Did you know: Smartphone sales revenue in 2016 is projected to be $55 billion (CTA)
Did you know: Projected revenue from sales of smart home products in 2016 is expected to be $1.2 billion (CTA)
Did you know: $2 billion is expected to be spend on virtual and augmented reality headsets in 2016 (CCS Insight)
Did you know: $6 billion in fitness, activity and sports trackers are expected to be sold in 2020 (CCS Insight)
Did you know: The market size of smart cities by 2020 is projected to be $248 billion (MarketsandMarkets)
Did you know: In 2016, U.S. organizations will invest $232 billion in hardware, software, services and connectivity (IDC)
Did you know: 82% of smartphone users say they use search to find a local business (The Consumer Barometer Survey)
Did you know: Today (2016), more than 6.2 million developers are working on IoT apps (Evans Data Corp)
Did you know: The number of developers globally is expected to increase from 19 million in 2015 to 25 million by 2020 ( Evans Data Corp)
Did you know: By 2018, calls to US businesses driven by mobile search are expected to grow by 73B (Phone Calls: The New Currency of the Smartphone Era)
Did you know: 328 million things connect to the Internet each month (MobileFuture)
Did you know: As of July 2016 there are 200 Smart Cities projects underway around the world (MarketsandMarkets)
Did you know: By 2025 it is anticipated there will be 100 Billion connected devices (Huawei)
Did you know: It is expected there will be 46 million smart homes in North America by 2020 (Berg Insight)
Did you know: As of July 2016, there has been a 316% growth of smartwatch shipments since last year (Strategy Analytics)
Did you know: As of July 2016, there has been a 145% increase in percentage of drone sales from the previous year (Consumer Technology Assn)
Did you know: 98% of the amount of mobile traffic within 4 years will be attributed to smart devices (Cisco)
Did you know: In July 2016, 90% of business leaders are not fully confident that their connected devices are secure (Gartner)
Did you know: By 2020, 87% of banking executives expect it to be common for consumers to make financial transactions using smart TVs (Cognizant/Marketforce/Pegasystems)
Did you know: 80% of airports will be investing in sensor technology over the next 3 years (SITA)
Did you know: 74% of airports will be using beacons to provide notice to passengers by the end of 2018 (SITA)
Did you know: 73% of banking executives expect to integrate wearables into their channel strategy within 5 years (Cognigant/Marketforce/Pegasystems)
Did you know: 72% of security executives say security is not yet adequately designed into IoT products (IOActive)
Did you know: 67% of consumers say in-store tracking could improve their in-store shopping experience (Walker Sands)
Did you know: 67% of airlines indicate they are moving into the Internet of Things (SITA)
Did you know: 65% of businesses plan to eventually implement IoT (Gartner)
Did you know: 64% of business leaders expect IoT initiatives to impact their businesses in the long-term by creating better user and customer experiences (TEKsystems)
Did you know: 61% of smart home owners want to use voice control for more products in their homes (NPD Group)
Did you know: 55% of business see the long-term impact of IoT initiatives having a transformational or significant impact on their business in the long-term (TEKsystems)
Did you know: 44% of airports will be using beacons for bag drops by 2018 (SITA)
Did you know: As of July, 2016 only 30% of consumers are yet familiar with where they can purchase smart home products or services (Parks Associates)
Did you know: As of July, 2016 only 8% of businesses are using more than 25% of their available IoT data (Oxford Economics/Verizon)
Did you know: By 2020, more than 90% of cars sold will be connected; and the enabling tech behind it - wireless communication, data analytics, cloud computing - are already old hat for major tech firms (AccentureStrategy)
Did you know: By 2022, 1.3 million IT and cyber-security jobs will need to be filled - driven by the use of connected technologies (Employer Playbook, CEB)
Did you know: The revenue potential for the autonomous driving market will grow rapidly from $10 billion in 2020 to over $65 billion in 2030 (Frost & Sullivan)
Did you know: The 'smart city' market will grow from $52 billion in 2015 to $148 billion by 2020 globally (
MarketsandMarkets)
Did you know: The 'smart cities' sector- which includes everything from revamping the energy grid to digitizing government processes - is estimated to be a $1.5 trillion market by 2020 (Frost & Sullivan)
Did you know: In 2015, Google's self-driving cars averaged about 10,000 autonomous miles per week (ForbesTech)
Did you know: In 2015 the market for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags, was worth $11.1 billion. This is predicted to rise to $21.9 billion in 2020. (ForbesTech)
Did you know: GE believes that the 'Industrial Internet' (their term for IoT) will add $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in the next 20 years (ForbesTech)
Did you know: The IoT will have a total economic impact of up to $11 Trillion by 2025 (McKinsey Global Institute)
Did you know: 83% capture IoT data, only 8% make the most of it (IoT Meets Big Data and Analytics study)
Did you know: The number of wearables that will be sold by the end of 2017 is 172 million (CCS Insight)
Did you know: By 2020 the number of addressable, smart connected home appliances is projected to be 700 million (IHS Home Appliance Intelligence Service)
Did you know: There are projected to be 400 million beacons in the marketplace by 2020 (ABI Research)
Did you know: The worldwide market for sensors in 2019 will be 466 million units (IHS Technology)
Did you know: IBM projects it will invest $3 Billion into the Internet of Things (IBM)
Did you know: Over the next decade (2015 - 2025) IoT alone is projected to generate over $8 Trillion in value (Cisco, DHL)
Did you know: The total economic value generated by mobile devices alone in 2014 was almost $10 TRILLION (Boston Consulting Group)
Did you know: Revenue generated in 2014 generated directly by the mobile devices themselves includes (all figures from Boston Consulting Group):
- $260 billion from component design and manufacturing
- $450 billion from original equipment manufacturers
- $520 billion from device retail
- $220 billion from mobile infrastructure and equipment
- $230 billion from mobile site operations
- $1 trillion from mobile operators
- $530 billion from mobile content and apps (app sales, mobile advertising and mobile commerce
Did you know: The aggregate annual consumer surplus - that is, the benefit consumers receive from mobile technologies over and above what they pay - amounts to $6.4 trillion. This exceeds the GDP of every country in the world except the U.S. and China (
Boston Consulting Group)
Did you know: SMEs that adopt advanced mobile/wireless technologies increase their revenue up to 2x faster and add jobs up to 8x faster than their peers (Boston Consulting Group)
Did you know: In the U.S., the 3.2 percent GDP generated by mobile technologies exceeds the GDP of such essential industries as entertainment, transportation, automobile, hospitality and agriculture (Boston Consulting Group)
Did you know: 91% of retailers said they had a mobile strategy in place or in development (up from 74% a year ago) (Forrester).
Did you know: Smart-home device shipments worldwide are expected to rise 660% between 2013 and 2018, from 25 million to 190 million (IHS)
Did you know: 80-100% of manufacturers are projected to be using Internet of Things applications by 2025 (McKinsey Global Institute)
Did you know: The enterprise sector will account for 39% of the roughly 23 Billion active IoT devices expected by 2019
(BI Intelligence)
Did you know: 45% of Internet users living in households with annual income less than $30,000 use their phone to go online, compared with 27% of those in households having annual income of $75,000 or more (Pew)
Did you know: Of New Yorkers living in households making less than $50,000 a year, studies indicate 87% of respondents who own a phone, have a smartphone - usually an Android (Pew)
Did you know: Spending on enterprise IoT products/services will reach $255 Billion globally by 2019, up from $46.2 Billion in 2014 (BI Intelligence)
Did you know: The manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, and information sectors will invest the most in IoT systems and devices in the next 5 years (BI Intelligence)
Did you know: Manufacturers are currently the leading industry to use IoT devices; their total IoT investment will reach $140 Billion over the next 5 years (BI Intelligence)
Did you know: The market for sensors in wearables will grow to 466 million units in 2019, up from 67 million in 2013 (IHS Technology)
Did you know: The number of wearables in use will increase to 135 million in 2019, compared with 50 million in 2013 (IHS Technology)
Did you know: Studies of V2V technology suggest it could help drivers avoid 70 - 80% of crashes involving unimpaired drivers, which could reduce roughly $870 billion in crash-related costs generated every year (USDOT)
Did you know: Smart machines and industrialized services will reduce the total cost of business operations some 30% by 2018 (Gartner)
Did you know: mHealth technology is expected to result in a 10% reduction in care costs by 2020 (Gartner)
Did you know: The global intelligent transportation market, including infrastructure, connected and autonomous cars, is projected to reach $33.75 billion by 2020 (Markets and Markets)
Did you know: The total market for IoT solutions will be $7.1 TRILLION by 2020 (IDC)
Did you know: The Internet of Things will be the largest device market in the world; by 2019 it will more than double the size of the smartphone, PC, tablet, connected car and wearable market COMBINED. (BI Intelligence)
Did you know: The Internet of Things will result in $1.7 trillion in value-added to the global economy in 2019; this includes hardware, software, installation costs, management services and economic value added from realized IoT efficiencies. (BI Intelligence)
Did you know: Just two V2V technology features - driving warning about left turn time and another that warns of other cars about to run a red light - could prevent up to 592,000 crashes and save up to 1,083 lives in the U.S. annually when all U.S. vehicles have the technology (NHTSA)
Did you know: With more than 50 suppliers currently manufacturing beacons, the installed base is projected to grow 287% to 5M beacons within 4 years (Business Insider Intelligence)
Did you know: 39% of drivers surveyed indicated in-car technology is important when deciding to purchase a car; a similar level of interest was reported for emerging features like vehicle health reports and management services (Accenture)
Did you know: 50% of survey respondents indicate that they access websites via smartphone or tablet (LimeLight Networks)
Did you know: more than 30% of survey respondents would leave a mobile website and purchase from a competitor if a website is too slow (LimeLight Networks)
Did you know: more than 50% of drivers surveyed expected in-car technology and emerging features to be provided at no cost. (Accenture)
Did you know: the connected car market is worth $17B to telcos by 2018 (Infonetics)
Did you know: 54% of manufacturing industry decision-makers consider expansion of M2M ('internet of things) initiatives a critical priority, and 36% have already implemented such initiatives (Forrester)
Did you know: 86% of consumers will delete a mobile App due to poor performance; 1/3 would change their bank if the App is sub-par; 30% would increase spending with firms having a good App; 29% would spend more to go to a company with a top-performing app (AppDynamics)
Did you know: 84% of companies see an increase in new business once they have a mobile site (Business Intelligence)
Did you know: 40% of mobile searches are local in nature (Entrepreneur)
Did you know: 81% of conversions from mobile search happen within 5 hours of the search (
Entrepreneur)
Did you know: 1 in 6 people are wearing 'wearables' mobile technology (Nielsen)
Did you know: The 'smart home' market will reach $71 billion by 2018, up from $33 billion in 2013 and $25 billion in 2012 (Juniper Research)
Did you know: As of 2013, 1 in 5 Michigan businesses used tablet computers in running their firms (Connect Michigan)
Did you know: 91% of mobile users keep their device within arm's reach 100% of the time (IBM Mobile)
Did you know: 72% of job seekers want to receive career opportunity info on their smartphone (SimplyHired)
Did you know: 1 out of 3 smartphone users search specifically for contact info (Telmetrics)
Did you know: 46% use mobile exclusively as their primary research tool (Telmetrics)
Did you know: The 'Internet of Things' is expected to generate $8.9 trillion by 2020 (IDC)
Did you know: By the end of 2020, the 'Internet of Things' will be approximately 212 billion "things" (IDC)
Did you know: Most smartphone searches result in purchases; 35% immediately, 66% within an hour (Telmetrics)
Did you know: There are 2.5x more mobile searchers than PC searchers (Telmetrics)
Did you know: The wireless M2M market is expected to generate nearly $236 billion in revenue by 2018 (Signals and Systems Telecom).
Did you know: 4 million U.S. jobs are directly or indirectly created by wireless technologies (Recon Analytics).
Did you know: approximately $90 billion of U.S. local, state and Federal government revenue is generated by U.S. wireless use. (Recon Analytics)
Did you know: By 2017 50% of smartphone users will have downloaded mobile health apps (Pew)
Did you know: Every 10 MHz of additional licensed spectrum boosts GDP by more than $1.7 billion and adds 7000 jobs (Recon Analytics)
Did you know: More than 25% of physicians are using mobile technology to provide patient care (Pew)
Did you know: 93% of physicians believe that mHealth apps can improve patient's health (
Pew)
Did you know: Mobile banking transactions cost $ .10 each vs. in-person branch transactions which cost $4.25 each; as a result banks focusing on mobile banking options for customers can save $50 per year per customer or $1.5 billion in cost savings for the U.S. banking industry (
Javelin Strategy & Research)
Did you know: Almost 60% of enterprise firms have no BYOD policy in place (IDG Research)
Did you know: In a recent study 85% of enterprise respondents indicate they will have API programs in place by 2018 (Layer 7)
Did you know: Only 31% of firms mandate a device password or key lock on personal devices
Did you know: 43% of enterprise-level respondents of a recent study indicate their organization currently have an API program (Layer 7)
Did you know: Transport & logistics firms could save $459,000 annually if they implemented process re-engineering and incorporated mobile technologies into their workflows (Intermec)
Did you know: Only 21% of firms perform remote device wipes when employees leave the company (Ponemon)
Did you know: Global mobile data traffic will grow 13-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 66% (5x the volume of the entire Internet in 2005) according to Cisco Systems.
Did you know: Mobile deposits have already saved U.S. banks more than $100 million in costs. (Mitek)
Did you know: Remote patient monitoring driven by mobile technologies will save $36 Billion in healthcare costs by 2018 (Juniper)
Did you know: Connected cars will create a market for related products worth $53 billion by 2018, up from $17 billion in 2012 (GSMA)
Did you know: Every $1 million of direct smart grid spending increases the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by $2.5 million (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Did you know: Smart grid projects in the U.S. have generated $7 billion in total economic output and 47,000 jobs (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Did you know: that the most popular application of wireless sensor networks is industrial process monitoring, followed by tank level monitoring, asset/machine health monitoring, valve monitoring, and process control? (TechNavio)
Did you know: mobile marketing is expected to create 1.4 million U.S. jobs in the next 5 years (MMA)
Did you know: Connected cars could save 1 in 9 lives thru emergency calling services (
GSMA)
Did you know: Smart metering can cut carbon emissions by 27 million tons; the equivalent of planting 1.2 billion trees (GSMA)
Did you know: mAutomotive will improve food transport and storage, which could help feed more than 40 million annually by preventing food spoilage of 240 million tons of transported food (GSMA)
Did you know: It took 100 years for there to be a billion landlines, 10 years for there to be a billion cell phones and just 1 year for there to be a billion smartphones.
Did you know: analysis of Fortune 500 mobile sites by the IAB found that only 45% of businesses had mobile-specific sites
Did you know: According to Cisco, over the next 5 years, mobile device subscriptions are expected to hit 7.1 billion.
Did you know: There are currently 5.3 Billion mobile subscribers vs. 1.2 Billion PC users, 1.1 Billion landline phones, 1 Billion automobiles registered and in use, 1.6 Billion TVs, 3.9 Billion radio receivers. (Tomi Ahonen)
Did you know: There are 7 Billion people in the world, and 75% of them have an active mobile subscription. (Tomi Ahonen)
