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Internet of Things - Industry Applications Landscape of the United States
6,001 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in the United States, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
6,001companies tracked
$84Bdisclosed funding
390hiring right now
6,483events · 24 months
281,486news articles · 12 months
Who leads Internet of Things - Industry Applications in the United States
Shows 6,001 U.S. IoT‑industry‑applications firms, highlighting the top hiring firms, best‑funded firms, and the 390 companies currently hiring, with 1,863 having disclosed a funding round.
open roles
Hiring now
ranked by live open roles
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Insulet13last posted Aug 2026
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Vontier13last posted Aug 2026
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Masimo12last posted Jul 2026
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Medical Guardian12last posted Jul 2026
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Bentley Systems12last posted Jul 2026
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CPI Security11last posted Jun 2026
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Adura Technologies11last posted Jun 2026
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Resideo11last posted Jun 2026
390 companies hiring · 31 posted in the last 30 days
disclosed funding
Most funded
disclosed totals, all rounds
- 01
Magic Leap$4.1BConventional Debt · Jan 2024
- 02
EdgeConneX$2.5BConventional Debt · Apr 2024
- 03
Peloton$2BPost IPO · Feb 2021
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Dexcom$2BPost IPO · Apr 2020
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Visteon$1.8BPost IPO · Sep 2010
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Akamai$1.6BPost IPO · Aug 2023
- 07
Jawbone$1.3BSeries F · Jan 2016
- 08
Vivint$1.2BConventional Debt · May 2019
1,863 companies with disclosed rounds · $84B total
revenue
Revenue leaders
official filings first, else latest snapshot
- 01Google Glass$90.2BFY2023 filing
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Sonic$3.7BFY2020 filing
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Garmin International$1.8BFY2024 filing
- 06
Samsara$1.6BFY2026 filing
- 07
Roku$1.2BFY2024 filing
- 08
67 companies with a revenue figure
headcount
Largest teams
ranked by tracked headcount
- 01Google Glass44,409tracked employees
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PTC7,231tracked employees
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411 companies with headcount data
share of events
Share of voice
share of all tracked sector news events, 24 months
- 01
Microsoft HoloLens31.5%4,582 tracked events
- 02
Oracle Supply Chain Management Solutions15.6%2,265 tracked events
- 03Google Glass15.5%2,257 tracked events
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Toyota5.7%828 tracked events
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14,557 tracked events across 399 companies
articles
In the news
Prism news coverage, last 12 months
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ERP7,460articles in the window
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Raritan968articles in the window
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534 of these companies drew sector coverage in the window
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How the Internet of Things - Industry Applications ecosystem in the United States grew, 2016–2025
Shows how many companies were founded each year from 2016 to 2025, with the highest count of 485 founded in 2016 and 38 in 2025.
Companies founded / year
new Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in the United States
20162025
peak 485 in 2016
Companies raising / year
with a disclosed round that year
20162025
peak 413 in 2018
Disclosed funding / year
sum of disclosed rounds (USD)
20162025
peak $10.3B in 2021
Where Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in the United States are based
Hub 01
San Francisco
435 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
31% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
435companies
$12.4Bdisclosed funding
30hiring now
Hub 02
New York City
252 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
18% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
252companies
$5.5Bdisclosed funding
13hiring now
Hub 03
Los Angeles
146 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
10% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
146companies
$549.3Mdisclosed funding
6hiring now
Hub 04
San Diego
132 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
9% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
132companies
$3.6Bdisclosed funding
10hiring now
Hub 05
Austin
120 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
9% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
120companies
$1.4Bdisclosed funding
6hiring now
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Hub 06
Boston
117 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
8% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
117companies
$3.1Bdisclosed funding
14hiring now
Hub 07
San Jose
96 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
7% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
96companies
$2.5Bdisclosed funding
11hiring now
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Hub 08
Palo Alto
93 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
7% of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies across these hubs
93companies
$1.3Bdisclosed funding
8hiring now
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The Internet of Things - Industry Applications market map of the United States: what these companies actually do
Breaks down product sub‑categories and revenue models, noting the largest sub‑categories such as enterprise tech (3,679) and the most common revenue model, subscription (3,913).
- Enterprise Tech3,679 companies · $62.2B raised · 299 hiring
- Consumer Digital2,955 companies · $29.8B raised · 147 hiring
- Consumer Internet of Things2,780 companies · $27.6B raised · 135 hiring
- IoT in Healthcare1,699 companies · $23.4B raised · 102 hiring
- Healthtech1,647 companies · $22.6B raised · 97 hiring
- Medical Devices1,320 companies · $17.6B raised · 90 hiring
- Enterprise Software1,158 companies · $21.1B raised · 104 hiring
- SaaS1,070 companies · $23.3B raised · 111 hiring
- Chronic Disease Management813 companies · $12.2B raised · 60 hiring
- Non-Invasive Health Monitoring Devices783 companies · $10.9B raised · 52 hiring
- Smart Buildings748 companies · $9.5B raised · 54 hiring
- IoT in Retail743 companies · $9.6B raised · 36 hiring
Monetization
How Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Subscription3,913
E-Commerce - Product1,510
Physical Commerce1,407
Fee-For-Service414
Commission on Transaction343
Advertising161
E-Commerce - Service132
Licensing63
Funding, M&A and the deals moving Internet of Things - Industry Applications in the United States
Counts 6,483 corporate events over the past two years, including earnings releases (1,234), key‑person announcements (1,182) and new product announcements (653).
Earnings 1,234Leadership 1,182Announcement 808Product 653Contracts 545M&A 421Funding 389Lawsuit 338Regulatory 187Layoffs 167
- M&Atoday announced the acquisition of Moove Connected Mobility2026-05-05
- FundingRoadzen Inc. (Nasdaq: RDZN ) (‘Roadzen’ or the ‘Company’), a global leader in AI at the convergence of insurance and mobility, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 4,705,870 ordinary shares at an offering price of $1.70 per share, in a registered direct offering (the ‘Offering’).2026-05-04
- M&AQuext acquires Geokey2026-05-01
- FundingPIPE: ~$10.3 million raised at $0.35 per share, (29,471,429 shares) Participants: TRCK Management 1.5%, Carlson Ridge Capital, LLC ("CRC") 49.25%, JCP Investment Management, LLC ("JCP") 49.25%.2026-05-01
- FundingNeology – which won the Sustainable Cities Challenge organised by the Toyota Mobility Foundation and secured USD 500,000 to develop a hydrogen refuelling solution in Detroit.2026-05-01
- FundingAgFunderNews 🇺🇸 Advanced growing resources raises $2m from NASA and NSF to diagnose crop afflictions a week earlier2026-04-30
- FundingNew York-based Shade develops a private AI-driven file explorer that visually searches and previews terabytes of files.2026-04-27
- M&AMicrosoft reportedly explored acquiring AI coding startup Cursor before SpaceX secured the rights to acquire the company in a deal valued at $60 billion.2026-04-23
- M&AEQT introduced its AI Infrastructure strategy, fully seeded by the EQT Infrastructure portfolio company EdgeConneX through the acquisition of a minority stake from EQT Infrastructure IV and V.2026-04-22
- M&AArlo Technologies has acquired Aloe Care Health, a medical alert systems manufacturer, in a tech M&A deal.2026-04-20
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Internet of Things - Industry Applications company in the United States was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $69B | Pending | 2026-07-18 | ||
| Google Glass | undisclosed | Announced | 2026-05-28 | |
| $2B | Announced | 2026-05-12 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-05-05 | ||
| $9.9B | Pending | 2026-05-04 | ||
| Google Glass | undisclosed | Announced | 2026-05-02 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Details specific event types such as IPO filings, leadership changes, product launches and contract wins for companies in the sector.
IPO pipeline
21 companies listed or filing · last 24 months
HeartBeamFollow-on Offering · NASDAQ · BEAT · 1 reportApr 2026
SMART LogisticsIPO · NASDAQ · SLGB · 2 reportsApr 2026
IvedaNASDAQ · IVDA · 1 reportFeb 2026
AmbiqIPO · NYSE · AMBQ · 10 reportsJan 2026
SyntiantIPO · 1 reportJan 2026
Leadership moves
140 tracked people moves · last 12 months
FastlyJoan Jenkins · Appointment → Chief Marketing OfficerMay 2026
BUNNBrad Willis · Appointment → President and Chief Executive OfficerApr 2026
RealWearAndy Lowery · Departure — was Chief Executive OfficerApr 2026
Product launches
tracked launches · last 12 months
H2Ok InnovationsAI agents for dairy factory (AI / Automation)Apr 2026
Contract wins
207 customer wins · last 24 months
BrainChipwon ASICLANDMay 2026
Workforce actions
3 companies cutting roles · last 24 months
Regulatory & litigation
86 regulatory events · 27 tracked suits · 24 months
- Elon Musk v Samuel Altman, openai, Greg Brockman, microsoftNonprofit status and investment dispute · OngoingMay 2026
- Elon Musk v openai, microsoftnon-profit status misrepresentation · OngoingApr 2026
Earnings pulse
companies reporting results · last 24 months
83 companies reporting1,390 company-quarters trackedbeat 467miss 128in line 7
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +14.1%, half slower.
Who is building Internet of Things - Industry Applications in the United States
Profiles 4,029 founders and CEOs across 2,968 firms, noting frequent alma maters like Stanford (108) and common prior employers such as Microsoft (31).
Founders and chief executives12 of 4,029, from the best-funded companies on this page
Ex-CFO Biosensors International. Brigham Young University BS 1983
Ex-HARMAN, QNX, 3Com, AT&T Bell Labs. Bombay University BS 1988, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville MS 1992
MD India & VP of Engineering - Akamai Technologies
Princeton University BA 1999, Caltech PhD 2005
Advisor - Liquid 2 Ventures · Ex- Y Combinator, Google, TalkBin · Harvard Business School MBA
ZippyYum, ex-Operative, CEO Tangoe. Trinity College-Hartford 1982
Harvard University BS 2012
Samsara, ex-Cloud Networking Group Cisco Systems, ex-Meraki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
CoFounder Luke Vincent Powers Foundation, ex-Swoop, CSO Access 360 Media, Westwood One. Boston University 1991
Where the founders studied
alma mater on record for 686 of 4,029 founders
Stanford University108
Massachusetts Institute of Technology97
Harvard University60
University of Pennsylvania57
Harvard Business School50
University of California (Berkeley)48
Carnegie Mellon University36
Cornell University35
Where they worked before
a previous employer on record for 155 of 4,029 founders
Microsoft31
Intel26
Cisco24
Google23
McKinsey17
Amazon13
Apple10
Facebook8
Founders flagged as repeat founders
of 3,461 founders with a profile on this page
41
carry a repeat-founder flag
- flagged as repeat founders41
- no repeat-founder flag3,420
Women and men among the founders
first names matched for 3,631 of 4,029 founders
12%
of matched founders are women
- women448
- men3,183
Inferred from first names, using 119 million people who state their own gender: a first name counts only where at least 20 of them share it and at least 90% of those share the same gender. The other 398 founders go in neither column.
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Who funds Internet of Things - Industry Applications in the United States
Records 4,482 funding rounds since 2016 from 3,664 investors, with a typical round size of $2.5 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| HHS | 198 | — | Sep 2025 |
| National Science Foundation | 84 | 1 | Apr 2026 |
| Techstars | 56 | 30 | Mar 2024 |
| OSTI | 50 | — | Jun 2025 |
| Y Combinator | 45 | 17 | Jan 2026 |
| Europa | 44 | — | Jan 2024 |
| Lux Capital | 38 | 14 | May 2026 |
| New Enterprise Associates | 34 | 8 | Dec 2025 |
| America’s Seed Fund | 34 | — | Sep 2021 |
| Plug and Play Tech Center | 30 | 17 | Nov 2024 |
Stage mix · rounds since 2016
Seed & Angel1,434
Series A–B1,493
Series C+ / PE475
Grants, debt & other1,080
The typical round is $2.5M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest Internet of Things - Industry Applications funding rounds in the United States
Highlights the largest disclosed round—World Labs’ $1 billion Series E—and lists ten other large recent rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series Emega-round | $1B | Feb 2026 | Autodesk, AMD, Emerson Collective +2 more | |
| Series Cmega-round | $793.5M | Feb 2016 | Alibaba Group, Google, Qualcomm Ventures +5 more | |
| Series Cmega-round | $675.3M | Apr 2022 | Vy Capital, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners +8 more | |
| Series Fmega-round | $600M | Jun 2025 | Kleiner Perkins, BlackRock, Fidelity Investments +13 more | |
| Series Gmega-round | $575M | Mar 2026 | Collab Fund, 2PointZero, Qatar Investment Authority +19 more | |
| Series Fmega-round | $550M | Aug 2018 | TCV, True Ventures, Wellington +7 more | |
| Series Bmega-round | $542M | Oct 2014 | Google, Obvious Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures +11 more | |
| Series Dmega-round | $502M | Oct 2017 | Temasek, Grupo Globo, Alibaba Group +6 more | |
| Series Cmega-round | $500M | Dec 2018 | SoftBank Vision Fund | |
| Series Gmega-round | $500M | Oct 2021 | — |
Venture round sizes · 2023–2025
<$1M100
$1–10M213
$10–50M150
$50–250M47
>$250M3
513 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Fresh cheques · last 6 months
Series B$230MMay 2026
Series A$50MMay 2026
Seed$10MMay 2026
Series AundisclosedMay 2026
Series B$50MApr 2026
Conventional Debt$50MApr 2026
Series B$32.1MApr 2026
Series C$10.3MApr 2026
What the news says about Internet of Things - Industry Applications in the United States
Counts 281,486 news articles in the last year, with most coverage on AI advances, product launches, digital transformation and strategic partnerships.
News volume
Internet of Things - Industry Applications coverage across United States · articles per quarter
2021Q22026Q1
peak 102,634 in 2025Q1 · 281,486 articles in the last 12 tracked months
Tone of coverage
share of articles by dominant sentiment (positive / neutral / negative)
202120232025
Positive-tone share moved 76% → 71%, negative 23% → 28% across 2021–2025.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate Internet of Things - Industry Applications news in United States. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
- Artificial intelligence advancements32,181▲+40%
- New product launches and innovations29,048▲+22%
- Technology adoption and digital transformation23,826▲+17%
- Strategic partnerships and collaborations21,610▲+24%
- Electric vehicle (ev) technology18,387→-9%
- Automotive industry market trends15,533▼-29%
- Electric vehicle charging infrastructure13,563▼-10%
- Semiconductor industry updates13,539▲+50%
- Latest gadgets and consumer electronics12,557▲+38%
- Tech policy and government regulations11,070→+0%
Most-covered companies · last 12 months
- 35,220
- 7,460
- 5,293
- 4,773
- 1,606
- 968
- 676
- 639
- 628
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534 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies here were named in the news over this period.
Prism
Watch Internet of Things - Industry Applications coverage in United States as it happens
Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.
Momentum
The words getting louder — and quieter
Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.
cloud infrastructure+75%ai copyright issues+113%green data centers+57%new gadgets+46%ai liability+193%job cuts+124%ip litigation+1037%workforce reduction+159%restructuring layoff+166%h-1b visa+1097%
vehicle sales forecasts-33%drone defense-41%tariff negotiations-42%faa drone rules-55%drone airspace rules-55%
The pressures the press keeps returning to
Three recurring angles in United States Internet of Things - Industry Applications coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
Regulatory Risk ▲ rising
292,708 articles touch this dimension · 54.3% critical tone
20212025
signals: ai regulation compliance, responsible ai, ai research
Funding Momentum ▲ rising
61,811 articles touch this dimension · 46.7% critical tone
20212025
signals: ai infrastructure financing, neural network ventures, ai chip investments
Growth ▲ rising
148,666 articles touch this dimension · 38.8% critical tone
20212025
signals: vehicle sales forecasts, automotive segment growth, automotive industry reports
Internet of Things - Industry Applications jobs in the United States: who is hiring and what they ask for
Shows 15,021 job postings from 627 employers in the past year, with top skills like Python and AWS and a median advertised salary of $89 k per year.
15,021postings · last 12 months
22,171postings tracked overall
627employers advertising
$89kmedian advertised salary/yr (n=1873)
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Internet of Things - Industry Applications employers in the United States put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- python334▲
- excel238▲
- microsoft office154▲
- aws149▲
- sql147▲
- salesforce132▲
- typescript128▲
- c++113▲
- word113▲
- gcp107▲
What level are these roles?
Entry252
Intern203
Senior2,147
Lead627
Manager5,914
What they pay, by level
- Manager$105k/yr (n=467)
- Senior$139k/yr (n=190)
- Lead$150k/yr (n=62)
- Entry$60k/yr (n=39)
Most advertised titles
- 1,482
- 623
- 619
- 250
- 116
- 102
What Internet of Things - Industry Applications research in the United States is working on
Lists 5,209 academic papers from India‑affiliated institutions, classifying them into common problems (628), cautions (122) and opportunities (3,944).
How this field talks about itself
United States-affiliated Internet of Things - Industry Applications papers (gold) against all published research (grey)
Breakthrough48.2% · 26.0%1.9×
Promising27.5% · 37.3%0.7×
Problem-identifying11.7% · 9.6%1.2×
Descriptive7.5% · 18.0%0.4×
Comparative2.4% · 3.9%0.6×
Cautionary2.3% · 4.3%0.5×
United States-affiliated Internet of Things - Industry Applications literature runs 1.9× more “breakthrough” than science at large (48.2% vs 26.0% baseline).
How the work is done
Methods-led69.0%
Reviews14.0%
Empirical11.4%
Position pieces4.7%
Theoretical0.9%
How the research reads
94% positive · 1% neutral · 5% negative, across 5,209 papers.
The institutions doing the work · United States
- 17k
- 13k
- 11k
- 10k
- 10k
- 10k
ranked by how often their work is cited
Leading researchers · United States-affiliated work
Mohsen Guizani · Ala Al‐Fuqaha · Mehdi Mohammadi · Moussa Ayyash · Mohammed Aledhari · Li Da Xu · Taewoo Nam · Rodolfo Milito
The most-cited breakthroughs
- XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding · 2k cites
- De-anonymizing Social Networks · 1k cites
- Mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Energy-Efficient Internet of Things Communications · 1k cites
- TinyECC: A Configurable Library for Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks · 921 cites
- Minimizing age of information in vehicular networks · 898 cites
Common problems researchers identify589 papers · 7 recurring themes
Problems · theme 01
Internet Of Things / Cloud Computing
136 papers · 23.1% of this block
▲ +5% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Internet of Things · Cloud computing · Interoperability · Big data
“Industrial Internet of Things: Challenges, Opportunities, and Directions”
136 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 02
Internet Of Things / Computer Security
117 papers · 19.9% of this block
▼ -48% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Internet of Things · Computer security · Intrusion detection system · Vulnerability
“A Survey of Machine and Deep Learning Methods for Internet of Things (IoT) Security”
117 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 03
Cloud Computing / Wearable Computer
107 papers · 18.2% of this block
▲ +4% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Cloud computing · Wearable computer · Drone · Wearable technology
“Mobile crowdsensing: current state and future challenges”
107 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 04
Wireless Sensor Network / Computer Network
89 papers · 15.1% of this block
▼ -44% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Wireless sensor network · Computer network · Wireless · Key distribution in wireless sensor networks
“A Survey of Intrusion Detection Systems in Wireless Sensor Networks”
89 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 05
Internet Privacy / Information Privacy
65 papers · 11.0% of this block
▼ -52% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Internet privacy · Information privacy · Computer security · Internet of Things
“A Comprehensive Study of Security of Internet-of-Things”
65 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 06
Smart City / Big Data
51 papers · 8.7% of this block
▲ +34% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Smart city · Big data · Sustainability · Government
“Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework”
51 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 07
Blockchain / Computer Security
24 papers · 4.1% of this block
▼ -33% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Blockchain · Computer security · Internet of Things · Supply chain
“Applications of Blockchains in the Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey”
24 of these papers raise it as a problem
Cautions116 papers · 4 recurring themes
Cautions · theme 01
Internet Of Things / Health Care
36 papers · 31.0% of this block
▲ +5% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Internet of Things · Health care · Cloud computing · Emerging technologies
“Assuring assistance to healthcare and medicine: Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence of Things”
36 of these papers raise it as a problem
Cautions · theme 02
Wireless / Computer Network
31 papers · 26.7% of this block
▼ -44% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Wireless · Computer network · Wireless sensor network · Malware
“A Comprehensive Analysis of the MAC Unreliability Problem in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks”
31 of these papers raise it as a problem
Cautions · theme 03
Internet Of Things / Computer Security
26 papers · 22.4% of this block
▼ -33% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Internet of Things · Computer security · Supply chain · Blockchain
“Examining potential benefits and challenges associated with the Internet of Things integration in supply chains”
26 of these papers raise it as a problem
Cautions · theme 04
Sustainability / Particulates
23 papers · 19.8% of this block
▲ +99% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Sustainability · Particulates · Air pollution · Smart city
“Community Air Sensor Network (CAIRSENSE) project: evaluation of low-costsensor performance in a suburban environment in the southeastern Uni”
23 of these papers raise it as a problem
Opportunities3,754 papers · 7 recurring themes
Opportunities · theme 01
Internet Of Things / Embedded System
1,002 papers · 26.7% of this block
▼ -8% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Internet of Things · Embedded system · Cloud computing · Agriculture
“Smart Infrastructure: Leveraging IoT and AI for Predictive Maintenance in Urban Facilities”
Opportunities · theme 02
Wireless Sensor Network / Wireless
724 papers · 19.3% of this block
▼ -34% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Wireless sensor network · Wireless · Key distribution in wireless sensor networks · Computer network
“Joint Mobile Data Gathering and Energy Provisioning in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks”
Opportunities · theme 03
Software Deployment / Smart City
715 papers · 19.0% of this block
▲ +65% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Software deployment · Smart city · Scalability · Robustness
“Efficient Multisensor Localization for the Internet of Things: Exploring a New Class of Scalable Localization Algorithms”
Opportunities · theme 04
Internet Of Things / Intrusion Detection System
586 papers · 15.6% of this block
▼ -44% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Internet of Things · Intrusion detection system · Computer security · Anomaly detection
“DL‐IDS: a deep learning–based intrusion detection framework for securing IoT”
Opportunities · theme 05
Wearable Computer / Wireless
364 papers · 9.7% of this block
▼ -34% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Wearable computer · Wireless · Wearable technology · Triboelectric effect
“A highly sensitive and multiplexed wireless sensing system with skin-like compliance and stretchability for wearable applications”
Opportunities · theme 06
Edge Computing / Enhanced Data Rates For Gsm Evolution
185 papers · 4.9% of this block
▲ +8% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Edge computing · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution · Edge device · Cloud computing
“Design and Simulation of a Hybrid Smart Grid Energy System Using Edge Computing and IoT-Based Control Architectures”
Opportunities · theme 07
Blockchain / Internet Of Things
178 papers · 4.7% of this block
▲ +15% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Blockchain · Internet of Things · Supply chain · Cryptography
“Hybrid Blockchain Framework for Secure and Scalable Internet of Things (IoT) Networks (HB-IoT): A Novel Approach”
Which of these themes are growing fastest
Tracks the changing share of research themes worldwide from 2022 to 2025.
Problems
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
Smart City / Big Data▲+34%
Internet Of Things / Cloud Computing▲+5%
Cloud Computing / Wearable Computer▲+4%
Blockchain / Computer Security▼-33%
Wireless Sensor Network / Computer Network▼-44%
Internet Of Things / Computer Security▼-48%
Internet Privacy / Information Privacy▼-52%
Cautions
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
Sustainability / Particulates▲+99%
Internet Of Things / Health Care▲+5%
Internet Of Things / Computer Security▼-33%
Wireless / Computer Network▼-44%
Opportunities
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
Software Deployment / Smart City▲+65%
Blockchain / Internet Of Things▲+15%
Edge Computing / Enhanced Data Rates For Gsm Evolution▲+8%
Internet Of Things / Embedded System▼-8%
Wireless Sensor Network / Wireless▼-34%
Wearable Computer / Wireless▼-34%
Internet Of Things / Intrusion Detection System▼-44%
Who files Internet of Things - Industry Applications patents in the United States
Reports 369,375 patent filings between 2016 and 2025 from about 8,000 organizations, with Qualcomm, IBM and Microsoft as the top filers.
369,375 filings 2016–20258,000 assigneespeak 43,051 in 2020
Filing momentum
patents published / year
20162025
Who files the most
- Qualcomm51,986
- IBM27,040
- Microsoft24,209
- Intel18,299
- Apple15,099
- Google14,743
- Cisco10,414
- AT & T IP I LP8,075
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