2016 – YEAR IN REVIEW – Internet of Things (IoT)
- Jan 2, 2017
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Top technology trends:
The push to develop devices capable of connecting through a network and facilitate convenience to users worldwide, is at an all-time high. What is even more important is to form an IoT Ecosystem that can enable businesses, governments, and consumers to connect to their IoT devices, including remotes, dashboards, networks, gateways, analytics, data storage, and security. Firstly, let’s have a look at the patent filing activities in the field of IoT. The numbers for 2016 will not give a complete picture as most of the patents will not be in public knowledge. Hence, we have tried to cover an overall research trend here.Patent Filing Activity (Overall)

Top Countries Researching in the field of IoT (Overall)

Top Universities devoting maximum resources in the field of IoT (for 2016)
With the technology at the cusp of booming, there is no doubt that a lot of research is happening at the University level. With a high breeding ground for young entrepreneurs, there has been a large jump in terms of patent filings observed over the years in IoT. The graph below gives details of top universities for the year 2016 along with percentage distribution.
Top Assignees investing heavily in the R&D related to IoT (Overall)
ZTE, Qualcomm, Cisco, IBM are some of the top companies that are heavily vested in the research related to Internet of Things. In order to figure out what how exactly their focus has shifted from non-IoT based research to IoT, we looked at their patents filed over the last decade. The insights revealed are as follows: ZTE leads the charge with most patents filed closely followed by American innovation company Qualcomm. Cisco, IBM and Intel take the honors at #3, #4, and #5 slot respectively.
Top Technologies related to IoT (Overall)
The maximum patent filing has been observed in Industrial IoT.