The ultimate promise of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) is an explosion of digital data from the physical world that, used properly, can improve the efficiency and quality of our lives across a range of settings, from our homes and cities to our factories and offices and everything in between. According to the World Economic Forum, humanity will have generated roughly 44 zettabytes of data by the end of 2020. That cumulative "digital universe" has been mostly formed by our collective internet searches, messages, social media activity and entertainment consumption. In other words, mostly "digitally native" data. The ultimate vision of the IoT will exponentially accelerate data creation as it endeavors to stream actionable insights from trillions of physical-world endpoints. Yet, despite its potential, the IoT has continually fallen short of analyst expectations.
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