IoT & Embedded Technology


Internet of Things (IoT) market opportunities are driving rapid change in the technology ecosystem. VDC Research covers new and evolving IoT and embedded technology solutions, combining research-driven commentary, analysis, market sizing, forecasting, and competitive analysis. Our analysts interview thousands of IoT and embedded engineers, decision-makers, and influencers across all major verticals to gain in-depth insight into their project requirements, solution selection criteria,preferences, spending, and more to help our clients make critical decisions with confidence.

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Featured Reports


MBSE Solutions & Software/System Modeling Tools

Model-based System Engineering (MBSE) practices have fundamentally rejuvenated the uses and commercial market for modeling tools in recent years. Now engineering organizations are looking to scale deployments...

Edge Gateways, Industrial PCs & Embedded OT Servers

The embedded and edge systems market will see dramatic opportunities and change in the years to come, as information technology (IT) converges more with operational technology (OT), edge AI adoption accelerates...

Automated Software & Security Testing Tools

The rising complexity and security concerns for the software code bases that support IoT/embedded systems and enterprise/IT applications drive increased demand for automated testing tools. Adoption of...

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Featured Blog Posts

RISC-V’s Rapid Ascent in Embedded Systems

Originally developed as a research project at UC Berkeley in 2010, the RISC-V ISA has since sparked a considerable amount of interest and use in captive and merchant/commercial processing applications. In 2015, the non-profit RISC-V...

Embedded World 2023: VDC’s “Embeddy” Award Winners

Last week, VDC Research attended the Embedded World 2023 conference in Nuremberg, Germany and held dozens of face-to-face meetings with exhibitors. Following a barren 2020 and relatively muted attendance last year...

Embedded Technology Helps Sports Organizations Optimize Performance

Athletic organizations across the world have begun to view IoT devices and the data they can glean from them as an important factor in optimizing player performance, mitigating injuries, and increasing...

MWC 2023: Satellite IoT & eSIMs

VDC’s IoT staff was back in Barcelona for MWC for the first time since 2019. This year’s attendance continued to rebound from the COVID pandemic, and was 88,500 participants, compared to 61,000 in 2022, after the 2019 peak of nearly 109,500. The hottest overall topic at the show was O-RAN...