IoT to Drive Next Wave of Connected Devices: Report

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IoT to Drive Next Wave of Connected Devices: Report

The Internet of Things (IoT) will surpass cell phones as the largest category of connected devices in 2018, according to research released this week by Ericsson.

The Ericsson Mobility Report covers a variety of topics related to mobile connections, including the current explosion in video streamed to mobile devices.

Ericsson estimates there will be roughly three billion IoT devices in North America alone by 2021. In the same year, there will be 450 million mobile subscriptions and mobile data traffic will reach 22 GB per smartphone each month.

Mobile traffic growth will be driven by streaming video, as consumers now in their teens lead a shift away from traditional televisions. Smartphone TV and video viewing by teens has increased by 85 percent in the last 4 years. The shift will see streaming video, including embedded video in social media and on web pages, grow by 55 percent to well over 30 exabytes globally each month, or close to 70 percent of all mobile data traffic, over the next five years. Web browsing by contrast will grow at a compound annual rate of 15 percent.

LTE subscriptions increased by 150 million to 1.2 billion in Q1 2016. Smarphone subscriptions also rose, and Ericsson expects them to exceed basic phone subscriptions in the third quarter of this year.

The report also calls for “global spectrum harmonization to secure early 5G deployments.”

Cisco also predicts that video will make up more than half of all mobile data traffic by 2020, and Gartner identified mobile video as a huge opportunity for communication service providers (CSPs) last year. Data center interconnection is another market likely to benefit from mobile video growth.

Ericsson partnered with AWS in February to encourage telecoms and CSPs to build links to the cloud to improve the efficiency of mobile app delivery, in anticipation of increased data demands. The company also joined with Orange Telecom in November to test different networking approaches and hardware for IoT devices.

Source: TheWHIR