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The standalone digital twin market reached $1.3 billion in 2025 and is forecast to grow to $4.2 billion by 2030, while the broader enabling software ecosystem reached $175 billion, according to IoT Analytics’ Digital Twin & Simulation Software Market Report 2026–2030. The digital twin tech stack and market span 4 workflow contexts and 5 technology layers, and no vendor owns the full tech stack.

IoT Analytics assesses that many enterprises are entering the agentic & autonomous operations phase of the IoT Value–Maturity Curve in 2026. AI was the #1 topic of CEOs as we entered 2026, with discussions of agentic AI on the rise, and Cisco’s CEO called 2026 a turning point for AI and the year of agentic applications.

According to IoT Analytics’ latest What CEOs Talked About report, AI remained the top topic in CEOs’ minds in Q2 2026, though it declined slightly quarter-over-quarter. Discussions about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz climbed sharply, as did related geopolitical and economic impact topics, including oil, energy, inflation, and uncertainty. Frontier AI model “Mythos” took the stage in corporate boardrooms, and mentions of Claude surpassed those of ChatGPT for the first time.

Knowledge loss has become a fundamental challenge for industrial asset maintenance. While predictive maintenance has had promising success in reducing downtime (which costs manufacturers an estimated $1 trillion/year), there is a much bigger challenge to solve: Veteran technicians are retiring and taking their years of necessary knowledge to fix industrial assets with them. AI can help manufacturers keep critical maintenance know-how from walking out the door, but only if they act now.

Process manufacturers anticipate reducing total annual plant operating costs by 12% as a result of their digital transformation initiatives in the coming 3 years, according to IoT Analytics’ Digital & AI Adoption in Process Manufacturing 2026 report (published May 2026). The top 3 technologies process manufacturers have deployed to date are 1) smart sensors, 2) process automation, and 3) advanced process control.

The current state of telecommunications was on full display at MWC Barcelona 2026. The IoT Analytics team produced a 39-page MWC 2026 event report, covering 60+ companies, and presents its top 7 notable IoT and telecommunications networking trends here. MWC is one of the world’s most important telecommunications trade shows. The showcased technologies are widely applicable to IoT connectivity. In this article MWC 2026 7 notable IoT and telco networking themes 1.

A “reshoring boom” due to the US’s widespread tariffs has not happened, based on macro data as part of IoT Analytics’ 34-page Industrial Macro Pulse – May 2026 report. In general, US manufacturing construction spending has steadily declined since 2024, driven by a 44% slowdown in spending on electronics factories and semiconductor fabs since their peak in mid-2024.

Data Centre World London 2026 was in full swing in March 2026 in London, UK, with over 19,000 attendees. IoT Analytics conducted 50+ interviews on-site, producing a 36-page event and trends report with 26 individual data center trends. 7 of the standout data center trends are shared in this article, including the move to higher rack densities (1MW+), liquid cooling innovations, 800V DC architectures, and busbars replacing cables. Data Centers are one of the fastest-growing markets at the moment.

The enterprise IoT market is entering the agentic and AI phase of IoT maturity according to IoT Analytics’ 124-page State of Enterprise IoT 2026 report. Companies are now embarking on a concrete path towards autonomous cross-ecosystem-optimized systems, the 8th and last step of the IoT value–maturity curve. Several decisive technology shifts are visible in this part of the journey: 1. The hardware shift: Device makers are integrating AI accelerators. 2.

According to IoT Analytics’ latest What CEOs Talked About report, AI took the top spot in CEOs’ minds for the first time in Q4 2025, though discussions around a possible AI bubble rose steeply. The US’s longest government shutdown had one of the highest quarter-over-quarter jumps in Q4, with most CEOs simply recognizing it as something to watch and mitigate if warranted. Discussions around tariffs and uncertainty remained high but continued to decline.