How many additional access accounts might be created by growing use of edge sensors, both commercial and industrial? If the number of connected devices doubles the present base of mobile devices, you might assume accounts also increase by perhaps that amount.
But adding a few more devices to an existing Wi-Fi (fixed network) connection does not actually boost account numbers. And much new sensor and IoT traffic supported at the infrastructure edge.
Only the more “industrial” sensing functions in our homes tend to create demand for additional communications circuits. Gas and power meters provide good examples.
In fact, though the details are likely to change as IoT actually becomes commercialized on a wide scale, though some new mobile connections are created, a fair number of other local connection technology platforms might emerge as significant pathways.
In many cases, those local connections will be to a local edge server most of the time, with external wide area communications on a less-frequent basis. So there is some additional impact on WAN data traffic, but not necessarily a direct increase in the number of connections because of additional IoT sensor or device use.
By some estimates, about 22 percent of IoT spending will be for connectivity. But some estimates suggest connectivity will be far less than that, as a percentage of total spending on IoT.
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