Dear Lionel,

you could start with contacting Telefonica, Vodafone, DT, AT&T... and other leaders in telecom market.

I believe, they will be able to send you an excellent data for your research. 

I recomend you to visit www.wwrf.ch (you will find a lot of an excellent materials regarding Vision 2020 and 5G that will be base for significant use of IoT and IIoT.

Very best regards,

Igor

Mr Mathe ,

There are numerous companies working on Internet of Things (IoT), and their names run the gamut of the whole alphabet from A to Z. They all do so because IoT is going to be a huge area of business … in due course, I hasten to add.

IoT devices and equipment start with sensors initiating some activity, acquiring data, collecting and assembling them, and then transmitting such data to receiving devices/systems for further processing, and even decision-making of sorts. [You can be sure that each of the actions I have listed in the previous sentence, involve numerous firms.]

It is possible for you, today, to theoretically initiate some action at some place you choose, from wherever you are. Therein lies the problem… how are you going to prevent a hacker from invading your private space and wreaking havoc? Large firms may perhaps be able to perhaps take some preventive measures, though that has been shown to not work always, as when hackers have been able to get access to personal information from the United States Department of Defence. Privacy, safety and security are vital if IoT is to make rapid progress. Development (R&D) work has probably taken priority above marketing – you cannot sell something that is not working as well as it should. An you have to address concerns about privacy, safety, security and of course reliability. Of course, development work is based on some strategic thinking

There are so many companies which are publicly known to be working on IoT that I shall name only a few: ARM, Bosch, Cisco, Eriksson, General Electric, IBM, Intel, NXP, Qualcomm, Samsung, Texas Instrument, Zymbit. Services companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are also working on IoT. Many Japanese, companies are also working on IoT.

Wearables are candidates for IoT, to give one example.

I have not answered your question, but I hope the information above may be a useful starting point. That said, if you think about what I say, you can see the beginnings of some answers to your question, albeit,  they being far from complete.

Best wishes. I hope you can let me know how you are making progress.