Forecast growth, billions of global networked devices, 2014-2019

. Forecasts say that by 2019, there will be 24 billion networked devices and connections in the world, up from 14 billion in 2014. Part of this growth will be due to machine-to-machine (M2M) communication in the Internet of Things. Smart objects such as household appliances, industrial robots, cars, and wearables such as watches or clothing need to be connected to networks in order to communicate the information that they collect and have it acted upon in a timely fashion.