Connected devices passed 21.1 billion at the end of 2025 and could reach 39 billion by 2030. This article looks at what that growth means for those who manage the fleet: reliability of the data, monitoring, hosting and cost.
Why ?
Why does the growth of connected devices matter?
According to IoT Analytics, the world counted 21.1 billion connected IoT devices at the end of 2025, 14% more than a year earlier. Water networks, industrial sites and fleets deployed by integrators all add sensors, year after year.
The forecast is 39 billion devices by 2030, almost double the 2025 figure. More objects means more data to collect, more equipment to supervise and more security questions to answer.
Your benefits
Hundreds of measurement points spread across a territory (flow, levels, leaks) to be monitored by small teams. As the fleet grows, automated monitoring becomes essential.
Several sites, heterogeneous equipment and protocols: you need a single view of the whole fleet without multiplying tools.
Offer an IoT service to your customers under your own brand, without developing or hosting the platform yourself.
The platform is hosted in France by OAAS: your data stays under European law, outside the scope of the Cloud Act.
How ?
Why is a sensor more reliable than a poll?
On Tuesday, Americans voted in the midterms. Meanwhile, connected devices had already reported their measurements: no campaign, no polls, no recount.
A poll comes with a margin of error and is revised several times before the vote. A LoRaWAN sensor sends a timestamped measurement, and its frame counter makes it possible to detect lost messages and reject replays. Turnout: 100% of powered sensors.
This reliability only holds if the platform receiving the data is solid too.
What ?
What changes when the fleet grows?
The question is no longer how many objects we connect, but how we manage them at scale: monitoring, security, data hosting and cost per device.
This is what iotplatform.fr, a B2B LoRaWAN platform operated by OAAS, is built for: one interface to supervise the whole fleet, whether it belongs to a water utility, an industrial group or an IT services company reselling the platform under its own brand.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The sensors have already voted; what remains is deciding who looks after their data.
In the next two articles, we detail the real cost of managing a fleet, then the security and sovereignty guarantees offered by iotplatform.fr. Preparing a rollout? Ask for a proof of concept.
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