Illustration: © IoT For All With the continued maturation of low power wide area networks (LPWANs) and the Internet of Things (IoT), here are my predictions for the coming year: Prediction 1: LPWAN and IoT devices deployed in 2020 under a traditional connectivity model will represent less than ten percent. A connectivity business model (that is, paying X dollars per month for each device connected to a network) is the most familiar business model in the communications industry.