Security News > 2021 > November > 2022 will be the year of convergence between edge, IoT and networking tech, Forrester predicts
Forrester has released a set of five predictions for the IoT, edge computing and networking markets in 2022 that are based on "Specific, observable changes" to those industries.
"In 2022, demand for sustainability-related services powered by edge and IoT will grow for energy efficiency and resource management," Forrester said.
Products that use IoT and edge computing to help reduce scope 3 emissions will be brought to market in 2022 by companies like "Traditional smart-technology product vendors, IT and professional services playersand platform vendors that specialize in edge and IoT," Forrester said.
"IoT-based smart products like appliances, automobiles and consumer electronics will be unavailable, delayed or overpriced," Forrester said, which will slow IoT product growth in 2022 by 10% to 15%, which will in turn lead to more demand for less-smart products.
"Stakeholders will also harness insights captured from edge devices and IoT-enabled infrastructure to modify traffic patterns to reduce congestion; evaluate multimedia data to deliver insight for security applications; and combine 5G, V2X and edge technologies to enable autonomous vehicles in ports and airports," Forrester said.
Weak IoT device security continues to be a plague on the internet, and Forrester said 2022 will bring with it a botnet so large that its "Level of traffic will successfully cause economic pain by denying some critical communications infrastructure." How big, Forrester said, is somewhere north of 30 million requests per second.