This year sees a step-change in the development of the internet  experts are calling the internet of things   – the ability of devices such as thermostats to connect to other devices via the web.

The IoT will account for an increasingly huge number of connections: 1.9 billion devices today, and 9 billion by 2018. That year, it will be roughly equal to the number of smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, wearable computers, and PCs combined.

But why this year? Three reasons:

1. IP Addresses: A massive expansion of available IP addresses:  the latest internet protocol (IPV6), with its address space of 128 bitsprovides a truly humongous 340 billion billion billion billion available unique addresses.

2. Bandwidth: 4G has created enough additional bandwidth to cope with the explosion in data from objects such as smartphones and iPads. As 4G spreads, things will be even freer to talk.

3.  Storage:  storage-on-demand services via the “cloud” make storage cheap.

 

 

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