New IoT Networks are Coming to the US Brian Ray, CEO, Link Labs
Brian Ray, CEO, Link Labs, Brian Ray is the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Link Labs. Prior to founding Link Labs, Brian was Asymmetric Operations Program Manager at . More The Internet of Things is upon us. It’s big and growing rapidly. Both Cisco and Ericsson have predicted that there will be 50 billion devices connected by 2020. Of these, Gartner estimates that 26 billion will be things other than smartphones, computers, and tablets.
What are these new connected devices? Many will be fixed-location, sensor-based devices sending less than 1,000 bytes of data a day. Another consultancy, Strategy Analytics estimates that sensor-based devices will account for approximately five billion device connections by 2022, and that roughly 50 percent of these will come from new companies.