Gartner forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30% from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. Meaning 5.5 million new things will be connected every day this year. Multiple sectors are being touted as the “driving force” behind the anticipated rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) in 2016. Be it commercial buildings, smart homes, access control, lighting, healthcare or another, it all points to a stellar year for the Internet of Things. “Smart commercial buildings will be the highest user of Internet of Things until 2017”, according to Gartner report. “After which smart homes will take the lead with just over 1 billion connected things in 2018”, said Bettina Tratz-Ryan, research vice president at Gartner. Commercial real estate benefits greatly from IoT implementation. IoT creates a unified view of facilities management as well as advanced service operations through the collection of data and insights […]