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2022 Update—Total Internet of Things (IoT) Device Forecast, 2018–2027
2022 Update—Total Internet of Things (IoT) Device Forecast, 2018–2027
05-Oct-2022
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The impact of Covid-19 continues to reverberate in the Internet of Things (IoT) . This Reforecast of the IoT space shows that by 2026, there will be over 66 billion devices active globally. 2020 will see growth decline to 9.3 percent with Asia-Pacific accounting for a large share of that growth. EMEA region will be the slowest to recover with the region taking until 2022 to get back to previously forecasted growth. The United States will see the market bounce back in the second half of 2021.
2022 Update—Total Internet of Things (IoT) Device Forecast, 2018–2027
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