Machine learning will unlock new value from urban IoT platforms 17th May 2021 The world is increasingly complex and interconnected, generating more data traffic than ever before. A recent IDC report predicts that the number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices could reach almost 75 billion globally by 2025 and generate about 79.4 zettabytes of data. This huge amount of information contains an incredible value, but it must be stored, processed, analysed, and correlated to unlock its full potential. Is human effort enough for this incredible task? Probably not. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being leveraged to make sense of such a large and growing amount of data, with more accurate and faster results than traditional computer programming.