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The Aruba study found that at 42%,
governments are further behind in their
adoption of IoT than others. In fact, over
a third (35%) of IT decision makers within
government bodies claimed their leaders
had little or no understanding of IoT, double
the global average.
However, there remain signs of progress
being made in IoT. Governments are
already connecting building security
systems (57%), street lights (32%) and
vehicles (20%) to create a coherent
technology environment that will underpin
the ‘smart city’ of the future. The most
popular application of IoT is the remote
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monitoring and control of devices within
the city boundaries (27% name this their
number one application).
Within cities, the limitations of legacy
technology are proving a key challenge,
with nearly half (49%) of government IT
departments struggling to integrate older
technology into their systems. However,
those with a working IoT strategy show
why it is worth pursuing: seven in 10 (71%)
public sector IoT adopters reported cost
savings, and a further 70% said IoT had
improved visibility across their organisation
– a crucial step if the unified infrastructure of
the smart city is to be realised. n
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