If 5G connections wind up representing 33 percent of all internet of things connections by 2025, reaching 2.3 billion active connections by 2025, as Strategy Analytics now estimates, it is likely that edge computing and virtualized networks with performance guarantees are the reason.
Most IoT sensor apps do not require 5G bandwidth, and may not require ultra-low latency, either. Arguments can be made that 4G or other networks will work just fine to support most IoT use cases.
On the other hand, as so often is the case these days, it is the way 5G enables edge computing and is enabled with network slicing that might explain the adoption. It might not so much be 5G access networks which drive the value, but the edge computing and network slicing.
To be sure, network slicing is a necessary attribute of the 5G core network. But edge computing arguably is the key to realizing end-to-end ultra-low-latency application performance. 5G, in many ways, is simply the access network that allows those attributes to be commercialized.
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