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B2B applications are where the majority of IoT value can be created, with around 65 percent of the estimated IoT value potential by 2030.The human-health setting is second, representing around 10 to 14 percent of estimated IoT economic value in 2030. We found that the factory setting (which includes standardized production environments in manufacturing, hospitals, and other areas) will account for the largest amount of potential economic value from the IoT, around 26 percent, in 2030. The IoT’s economic-value potential is concentrated in certain settings (types of physical environments where IoT is deployed).By 2030, we estimate that it could enable $5.5 trillion to $12.6 trillion in value globally, including the value captured by consumers and customers of IoT products and services. The potential economic value that the IoT could unlock is large and growing.The IoT has faced headwinds related to change management, cost, talent, and cybersecurity, particularly in enterprises. The market has grown considerably in the intervening years but not as fast as we expected in 2015. Six years later, in a new report, The Internet of Things: Catching up to an accelerating opportunity, we have updated the analysis to estimate how much of that value has been captured, how the potential value of the IoT could evolve in the coming decade, and the factors that explain both (see sidebar, “Defining the Internet of Things”). The report analyzed the economic potential that the IoT could unleash through consideration of hundreds of use cases in the physical settings in which they could be deployed. In 2015, the McKinsey Global Institute published a research report entitled The Internet of Things: Mapping the value beyond the hype. Connected sensors can also monitor the natural world, people, and animals.įor the purposes of this research, we exclude systems in which all the sensors have the primary purpose of receiving intentional human input (such as smartphones, for which the data input comes primarily through a touchscreen, and other personal computers, for which the sensors consist of keyboards and pointing hardware). These systems can monitor or manage the health and actions of connected objects and machines. We define the Internet of Things as sensors and actuators connected by networks to computing systems.