IoT Technologies and Trends 2024: Ramping Up the 5G Era

During this decade of IoT, between 2020 and 2030, technology and trends are shifting rapidly and giving rise to a new era of technology, computing, and digital applications. In this decade, 2G and 3G will become fully obsolete and replaced by 4G LTE, 5G, low power wide area (LPWA) networks and short-range technologies. New ways of compute and storage will proliferate and data will become massive and critical across thousands of use cases. In this eBook, we take a look at the current IoT technology and trends in 2024 and how it specifically impacts the Internet of Things.

The newest generation of cellular technology is going to play a major role in IoT innovation during this decade. As 5G is on the rise, we can see a consistent trend and can expect 5G to continue to be a higher and higher percentage of global connections.

Network slicing for private 5G networks allows businesses to tailor a network for specific needs with customizable network capabilities like data speed, quality, latency, reliability, and security. Network slicing allows communication services providers (CSPs) a new value proposition for enterprises. If network slicing is the capability, private networks are the application. Private networks, at a high level, mean a dedicated network that lies outside of public networks. Typically, the reason to use private networks falls under security and bandwidth purposes. While private networks are available via 4G LTE, the network slicing capabilities of 5G make it a much more accessible solution.

Private networks have the ability to offer heightened security and dedicated bandwidth for many IoT use cases, but private networks can be complex and not every use case can benefit from them, and choosing the right connectivity technology and infrastructure is important.

Download this eBook to learn more on the subject of 5G and the innovations and challenges it presents.