ETF Partners Investment Insights: IoT

Depending on which business or tech circles you mix within, the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) may be a term you now hear often, or hardly ever. This disconnect is telling – those that have an inkling of its world-changing potential want to talk of little else. But until there is a clearer idea of how it will change the world, it will not fire up the collective imagination. Part of the difficulty in visualizing its potential is that it links the tiny and ubiquitous with the massive – indeed it has been called the ‘World-Sized Web’. While the first iteration of the internet connected people, the IoT will, in theory, connect every man-made thing across the planet.