Thirty-three billion Internet devices by 2020 - Strategy Analytics

YEREVAN, October 16. /ARKA/. About 12 billion Internet-connected devices will be in use worldwide by the end of 2014, an equivalent of 1.7 devices per person, Lenta.ru reports referring to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. 

Number of Internet-connected devices will rise to 33 billion by 2020, i.e. 4.3 devices per person. 

The connected devices include smart home, smartphones, PCs, tablets, smart TVs, internet media devices and wearable devices.

Traditional connected devices like PCs, smartphones and tablets now account for less than a third of all connected devices in use. 

The Internet of Things is leading to rapid growth in new categories like M2M, smart objects, smart grid and smart cities. 

"The Internet of Things has already connected five billion devices and we are only at the beginning of this revolution", says Andrew Brown, Executive Director and the report's joint author. "Smart cities and smart grid are just two of the ways in which the internet of things will touch everyone's lives over the coming years and decades." –0--