“Much of the hype of the early years of the IoT revolved around the technologies, with articles hailing the billions of connected devices that would be rolled out,” our latest report The Internet of Things in Smart Commercial Buildings 2018 to 2022 discusses. However, as the market has emerged the focus of vendors and that sector as a whole has shifted from the hype of emerging technology to the reality of the outcomes we can achieve with these developments. In the early days it was all about “the dazzling speeds promised by emerging networking technologies, the communications protocols that were going to revolutionize the way we interact with machines and the zeta-bytes of data that would be generated,” the comprehensive report continues. “Whilst all of these metrics provide solid indicators of the actual state of the market, they mean little to end-users and discussions and marketing focused on these areas often only serves to unnerve […]