The internet of things is driving many of today’s most significant technology developments. Modern organizations use IoT applications and sensors for everything, including optimizing manufacturing and supply chain practices to aiding the development of municipalities through use in smart cities.
Effective use of IoT technology creates numerous benefits. It has the potential to help businesses monitor complex processes, save time and money, improve customer experience, aid strategic decision making, streamline business models and boost productivity.
For industry professionals, there is always more knowledge to be discovered. Both newcomers and seasoned experts can benefit from keeping up with the newest developments in the IoT market — how the technology develops, matures and is applied in new and innovative ways.
But with so many blogs dedicated to the internet of things, it’s difficult to figure out where to best spend your time reading up on the subject. To simplify this process, here are the top IoT resource blogs to follow in 2024.
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These selected IoT blogs are organized by source type and sorted by the type of information provided, including the following:
These blogs cover a broad range of IoT-related news, instructional guides and other content. Though they may touch on niche topics within the internet of things — such as consumer IoT, smart cities, IIoT and use with other specific technologies such as AI — those are not the unifying theme of the blogs. These resources are intended for readers seeking introductory knowledge on the subject, professionals who want to augment existing familiarity with more specific and granular IoT knowledge and those who want to stay current on their knowledge of industry trends and developments:
These blogs are official publications of large, well-known research and management consulting firms, with conclusions and insights drawn from real-life business cases. Typically, these reports and business cases present information in a Q&A context. Enterprises share their challenges and results in various aspects of use, adoption and innovation in the following blogs:
These blogs are official publications of well-established technology leaders that have played integral roles in IoT’s development and evolution. Contributors for this blog type are often industry experts with years of functional subject knowledge. The blogs generally tailor content toward the perspective and interests of potential client organizations. Customers of these organizations typically find these blogs particularly useful, as they largely focus on information targeted at the company’s offerings:
These blogs focus on the industrial internet of things niche. IIoT is the use of IoT smart sensors, actuators and applications to enhance manufacturing and other industrial practices. Topics covered on these blogs tend to be very specific and focused within IIoT. They are intended mostly for professionals working with industrial and manufacturing technologies:
Amanda Hetler is a senior editor and writer for WhatIs where she writes technology explainer articles and works with freelancers.
Wesley Chai is a former technical writer at TechTarget.
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