AT&T Releases Report on IoT Business Opportunities

AT&T released a report detailing the business opportunities provided by the IoT and providing information on the cost-cutting and revenue-boosting effects of the IoT, it said in a news release Monday. The report highlights several areas where it says the IoT can be used to improve business strategies, including connected cars, smart cities, fleet management and supply chain monitoring, and "identifies insights from industries already transforming with [the] IoT," AT&T said. The company touted itself in the report as the "North American IoT leader," and said more than 25 million connected devices were on its network in Q3 2015 and 1.6 million devices were added to its network during that quarter. AT&T also launched a website to coincide with the release of the IoT report, which "offers an interactive experience showing how every day, objects ... are evolving to help create an interconnected world," it said.