{"id":5805,"date":"2015-11-09T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2015-09-27T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T01:12:06","slug":"internet-of-things-software-leading-hardware-in-iot-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/internet-of-things-software-leading-hardware-in-iot-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of Things: Software Leading Hardware in IoT Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet of Things (IoT) is predicted to break the $7-trillion mark over next five years. \u00a050 billion new IoT connected devices are expected to go online over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=WC20150910\" target=\"_blank\">new IDC survey<\/a>, three-quarters of business decision makers have either already deployed IoT or have plans to do so in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF000385\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Turner<\/a>, senior vice-president at IDC, said that \u00a0&#8220;momentum continues to grow and &#8230; [and IoT is increasingly] seen as strategic to the enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Findings from the IDC survey include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security is a leading challenge for businesses, but even more so are the upfront and ongoing costs of achieving security.<\/li>\n<li>Software vendors, rather than hardware vendors, actually were more aggressive in leading IoT in 2015<\/li>\n<li>IoT happening &#8220;at the edge of the network&#8221;, not at the enterprise, will become a requirement that will be difficult to meet with an IoT architecture design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Industries that are showing the most interest in IoT technology are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>72 percent<\/strong> &#8211; Health Care<\/li>\n<li><strong>67 percent<\/strong> &#8211; Transportation<\/li>\n<li><strong>66 percent<\/strong> 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