ABI Research's latest data on the Internet of Everything (IoE) shows that there are more than 10 billion wirelessly connected devices in the market today; with over 30 billion devices expected by 2020.

A drive for cost savings and energy efficiency has brought a wave of new players and capabilities into the commercial building automation market. Rather than competing directly with the giants of the established building automation system (BAS) market, these new entrants are bringing additional managed data services to help drive greater efficiency.

The total market for open short-range wireless (SRW) technology-based ICs, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, NFC and GPS, is expected to reach almost 5 billion units in 2013 and grow to nearly 8 billion by 2018. This includes stand-alone wireless connectivity ICs, wireless connectivity combo ICs, and also platforms with integrated wireless connectivity.

The financial golden goose egg of M2M services that has attracted the attention of carriers globally risks being thwarted by the growing security concerns in M2M applications. Porous security is exposing vulnerabilities in a large number of use-case scenarios, including SCADA systems, telemedicine, and telemetry.

"The commercial telematics industry continues to see strong growth with fleet management system vendors increasing their installed base of vehicles under management. While until recently reaching the milestone of 100,000 subscriptions was exceptional, more than 20 vendors have now exceeded this number with Masternaut, TrafficMaster, Telogis and TomTom even having passed the 200,000 mark and Fleetmatics, Trimble and Qualcomm the 300,000 mark," says ABI Research vice president and practice director Dominique Bonte.

The enterprise incident response market is set to see highly dynamic growth over the next few years, totaling $14.79bn by 2017. The reason? The number of malicious cyber agents is rising and they are attacking, hacking, and spying on organizations with impunity.

Revenues accumulated by the global mobile application market are expected to pass the $30bn milestone by the end of this year, according to new market data from ABI Research.

The number of Wi-Fi enabled devices shipped in 2012 is expected to surpass 1.5 billion. Growth is occurring across many markets, including mobile handsets, laptops, media tablets, printers, TVs and automotive.

The traditional uses of RFID for the identification of animals, people and within the automotive sector are continuing to grow and are projected to increase by $2.8bn from 2012 to 2017. However, ABI Research's new RFID Market Tracker found that modernizing RFID applications will grow twice as fast with annual revenues derived from these jumping by $4.5bn in the same timeframe.