5G and IoT in 2018 and beyond: the mobile broadband future of IoT

It promises a major change in mobility and, although not just'built' for IoT, it is heralded as a major driver of the growth of IoT. It's mainly in the scope of IoT trends for 2018 and beyond that we tackle 5G in this overview with a brief explainer and forecasts for the usage and role of 5G in IoT and its expected impact on mobility in evolving connected business realities. When bridging digital and physical by leveraging IoT and cyber-physical systems and when striving towards ever more automation and autonomous decisions in environments such as the smart factories of Industry 4.0, autonomous vehicles, smart buildings, smart cities and connected industrial applications in IoT in manufacturing, to name a few, you do need quite some resources to deal with the resulting deluge of data that needs to be analyzed and gathered to begin with. It's why edge computing, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence become so important in IoT and why edge computing is certainly among the top'IoT evolutions'. In its Worldwide IoT Predictions 2018, announced in a November 1, 2017 webcast, IDC stated that by 2020, IT spend on edge Infrastructure will reach up to 18 percent of the total spend on IoT Infrastructure – and there is quite some infrastructure.