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75 The IoT revolution is expected to have significant and transformative implications for the mobile device and software markets , particularly as cellular IoT gains traction . This year alone , 3.5 billion cellular IoT connections will be installed . The technology involves connecting physical devices to the internet by piggybacking on mobile networks . The combination of existing cellular infrastructure , the ability for mobile networks to bring IoT capability to remote areas , and the application of new communications technology like 5G has led to this being one of the biggest growth areas for IoT .
As IoT saturation grows , and its applications become more sophisticated , the implications for the future of the mobile hardware and application development space are only going to become more profound .
“ Smartphone ... technologies such as built-in sensors , Bluetooth , radio-frequency identification ( RFID ) tracking , and near-field communications ( NFC ) allow it to be an integral part of IoT and IoE world as the most-used device in these environments ,” wrote Mehdia Ajana El Khaddar and Mohammed Boulmalf in the InTechOpen journal .
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