This is could be a huge issue for imaging dealers.

Recent projections from Juniper Research put the number of IoT connections at 83 billion by 2024. It’s an eye-watering figure, and although similar predictions from other analysts are often a little more conservative, it speaks to just how influential IoT will be at the edge for businesses across sectors over the coming decade.

The business benefits promise to be as vast and varied as the industries where IoT devices will be found. Access to more real-time data across supply chains, factories and smart cities will facilitate efficiency gains at each step of every process, enabling better service with lower costs.

The key point here is the data. As businesses increasingly embrace IoT and connecting non-traditional devices to the network, be they digital signs, point of sale devices, heart pumps, facilities equipment, robots, autonomous machines or whatever else, these devices will all need to communicate with each other at the edge, as well as with cloud applications. Read On: