Yeah, that '50bn IoT devices by 2020' claim is a load of dog toffee
Found on The Register on Friday, 11 November 2016
The Internet of Things is mostly a hype bubble, with real-world spending and deployments being just a fraction of their predicted level, according to a report by analysts IDTechEx.
"It is probably now physically impossible to deploy the big figures for nodes by 2020," warns the report, which can be downloaded for a fee at the IDTechX website.
If this should really happen some day, expect never before seen botnets.