Digital technologies have played a crucial role in keeping things working during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has ensured the economy and society are running through remote working and contactless payment while at the same time supporting communication and ecommerce. In 2020 alone, many businesses suffered because most of them were not prepared to handle a massive disruption occasioned by the coronavirus. However, many responded by accelerating digital transformation and ensuring operations are running and production ongoing thanks to remote work and online collaboration tools.  

The future of the Internet of Things (IoT) seems bright as the industry shows the signs of heading towards large-scale growth in the coming years. It is estimated that the IoT market will top $1.4 trillion by 2027 (up from $250 billion 3 years ago). As the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic heats up, businesses and governments appear to be turning their focus to IoT as the potential source of help. This technology has shown potential in aiding enforce social distancing, ensuring equipment availability, and automating tasks previously done by humans. With this massive adoption, we are likely to see a sudden surge in IoT use than anticipated before the pandemic. Here are some IoT cloud trends you are likely to see going forward.

IoT is one of the groundbreaking technologies that are expected to advance and continue to transform the business landscape and human’s daily life this decade. While this technology is expected to change many aspects of our lives on its own, cloud computing will also play a critical role in IoT advancement. Cloud connectivity is an integral part of the internet of things (IoT) projects because it acts as a backbone for this transformation.  As the number of IoT applications continues to rise, the cloud will allow the applications to store data generated regardless of the volumes or variety.