IoT World Congress

The fourth edition of the Internet of Things Solutions World Congress (IoT SWC), which took place in Barcelona earlier this month, signaled an increasing interest in the technology, with the number of attendees increasing by 25 percent year over year, to 16,250. The range of topics discussed shows that IoT is being embraced by companies in every sector, and that the technology has now passed from the development phase to the implementation of practical solutions whose results are increasingly evident.

The 200 speeches and panels, divided into thematic areas (manufacturing, healthcare, connected transport, energy and utilities, buildings and infrastructures and open industry), as well as two related events, AI & Cognitive Systems Forum and Block chain Solutions World included -- at the insistence of Richard Solely, Executive Director of the Industrial IoT Consortium (co-organizer of the event together with Fira Barcelona) -- presentations of concrete use cases.