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Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things

$10 Billion IoT Market for WSN Chips and Modules by 2024

September 12, 2019 — Relentless advances in wireless sensor networks (WSN) have resulted in billions of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices... More

1 Billion 802.15.4 Chipset Shipments by 2024

July 25, 2019 — Mesh network protocol Zigbee along with Thread and Wi-SUN are enabling Internet of Things markets to reliably and securely grow exponentially... More



$1.5 Billion Smart Bulb Market in North America by 2024

July 11, 2019 — North America unit shipments for smart bulbs, lamps, fixtures and light strips will increase 12X in the next five years... More



One Quarter Billion Industrial IoT Asset Trackers by 2027

May 8, 2019 — Asset tracking is the fastest growing industrial IoT market and most connected devices will be location aware within the next decade... More



ON World Launches Industrial IoT Energy Harvesting Survey

February 13, 2019 — Industrial IoT vendors, suppliers and end users are invited to participate in a survey on energy harvesting for industrial wireless sensor networks by global IoT research firm ON World. Take the survey here

ON World Launches Industrial IoT Asset Tracking Survey

December 12, 2018 — Industrial companies and enterprises involved with active (smart tag) asset tracking and locating are invited to take ON World's latest survey. Participants will receive a free report and the survey results for their participation. Take the survey here

650 Million Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Devices by 2027

December 5, 2018 — Unlicensed Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) such as Sigfox and LoRaWAN™ are providing much of the growth for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) despite accelerated rollouts of NB-IoT and LTE-M... More

Private, Unlicensed LPWANs Drive Industrial IoT Connections to Triple by 2020

November 15, 2018 — Unlicensed Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) such as Sigfox and LoRaWAN™ are providing much of the growth for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) despite accelerated rollouts of NB-IoT and LTE-M... More



Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Revenues to Reach $13 Billion in 2023

Oct. 30, 2018 — Industrial wireless sensor networks (WSN) continue to expand into new markets with multi-protocol devices, maturing standards and ubiquitous IoT cloud platforms... More

Bottom Line Focus Will Drive Oil and Gas Wireless Sensor Network Revenues to $2.2 Billion in 2023

Oct. 4, 2018 —At a pivotal time for the oil and gas industry, wireless sensor networks (WSN) are connecting stranded assets, streamlining operations and reducing deployment costs... More

Zigbee Leads the Wireless Mesh Sensor Network Market

Zigbee Alliance guest blog entry, August 10, 2018 —The Zigbee Alliance, an organization of hundreds of companies creating, maintaining, and delivering open, global standards for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that findings from leading market research firm ON World.... More



Analysts Confirm Half a Billion Zigbee Chipsets Sold, Igniting IoT Innovation: Figures to Reach 2.8 Billion by 2023

Market Watch, August 7, 2018 —Smart lighting professional installers are invited to participate in a smart home lighting survey by IoT research firm ON World... More

ON World Launches Smart Home Lighting Survey

June 6, 2018 —Smart lighting professional installers are invited to participate in a smart home lighting survey by IoT research firm ON World... More

3.4 Billion Annual WSN Chipset Shipments in 2023

June 6, 2018 —Wireless sensor networking (WSN) has removed the barriers to entry for Internet of Things (IoT) development and is a key differentiator for an increasing number of organizations... More

ON World Launches Global Industrial IoT Survey

May 22, 2018—  — Industrial IoT vendors and end users are invited to participate in a survey on industrial wireless sensor networks (WSN), Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networking and cloud IoT platforms... More



4.5 Billion 802.15.4 Mesh Devices 2023

May 9, 2018—   Wireless mesh sensor network standards have made 802.15.4 the predominant networking technology for the Internet of Things... More

108 Million Smart City Lights by 2025

April 11, 2018—   Intelligent lighting has become the foundation for smart cities, according to a recently published report by global IoT research firm ON World... More

EE Times: IoT Diversity Challenges ROI

April 3, 2018—   There’s plenty of growth ahead for the Internet of Things, but the market’s fragmented nature can make it hard to find the return on investment... Full article

LPWA Will Be a $56 Billion IoT Market by 2022

March 28, 2018—   Demand for LPWA solutions is accelerating as competition intensifies among IoT network operators, infrastructure vendors and service providers... More

NB-IoT Ignites the Race to a Billion LPWA Connected Devices by 2025

March 14, 2018—   Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) has reached critical mass with announced deployment plans growing exponentially... More

LPWA Networks Will Connect 250 Million Industrial and Smart City Devices by 2023

February 21, 2018—   Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks enabled by technologies such as Sigfox, LoRa®, LTE-M and NB-IoT will connect hundreds of millions of assets in the industrial, energy/utilities and smart cities sectors... More

140 Million LPWA Devices Connect Smart Cities by 2022

January 31, 2018-- In the next five years, Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networking technologies such as Sigfox, LoRa®, LTE-M and NB-IoT will connect hundreds of millions of smart city sensing devices to low cost multi-kilometer cloud connected networks... More

Transportation LPWA Revenues Will Approach $12 Billion by 2022

January 17, 2018-- At a pivotal time for the transportation industry, LPWA technologies such as Sigfox, LoRa, LTE-M and NB-IoT will accelerate IoT adoption in dozens of transportation markets over the next few years... More

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