
There's Big Money In Manufacturing, Transportation, Utilities
While IoT is expected to touch many aspects of life and work, a substantial amount of the action is happening on the industrial side, where manufacturers, utilities and other heavy-hitters are making headway in connecting their assets to improve operations.
This is reflected in Gartner's most recent IoT spending forecast, which said that discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, transportation and utilities represent 44 percent of the $745 billion organizations worldwide are expected to spend in 2019.
With IoT spending expected to reach more than $1 trillion in 2022, it's no surprise that established organizations and startups alike are racing to find their role in the world of industrial IoT.
What follows are the 10 hottest industrial IoT startups of 2019, which range in category from comprehensive security platforms to application development platforms.