Network equipment giant cisco had predicted, the car, home appliances and other items all connected network of Internet of things industry, have the opportunity to create as much as $19 million by the end of 2020 the business opportunities, and at the same time able to connect to the network equipment will increase to 50 billion units. And huawei also predicts that by 2025, the Internet of things devices will be close to 100 billion, the number of newly deployed sensor speed will reach 2 million per hour. Thus it is not hard to see, iot domain has broad prospects for growth!

For now, we have been in the age of mobile Internet and cloud computing, so the entire IT industry giants have been active layout field of Internet of things, try to early movers in the era of Internet of things. And want to early movers, first should establish technical advantages, and has set up the standard voice, so the current contest is the patent number of the Internet of things.

Recently, the consulting firm LexInnova released to iot patent related report, report display chip manufacturers and network equipment manufacturers in the Internet of things patents at the top. The results of the survey is as follows:

Chips and networking equipment giant market leading IOT patent

Iot patents

As you can see, the chip giant qualcomm and Intel in the top two, patent number is twice the third; And network equipment manufacturers such as zte, Ericsson, and huawei has formed the second camp, patents in the same basic level.

Chips and networking equipment giant market leading IOT patent

Iot patent growth number

In addition it is worth mentioning iot patent number is growing rapidly in 2016, a few companies, the first it is qualcomm, grew by 157 patents, followed by LG, increased by 63. Compared with them, seemed to network equipment maker in 2016 patent growth is slower.