# More data sources · Data Trends 2019 · Zorraquino
> Millions of connected objects.
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Millions of connected objects.

## In short

Although nobody knows the exact number, there is talk of 10 billion devices currently connected to the network.

Estimates suggest it will reach 30 billion in 2020, although some even speak of 50 billion.

Devices that are also data collection terminals; smaller and more reliable all the time.

Data on all kinds of activities and in the most varied formats; affordably (in economic terms) and easily.

## Cases

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## More on the trend

### References

- [Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air](https://www.wsj.com/articles/here-comes-smart-dust-the-tiny-computers-that-pull-power-from-the-air-1541689224)
- ["Smart dust": estás motas de polvo ya son más listas que tú](https://www.elmundo.es/economia/innovadores/2018/02/22/5a8edba8468aeb23138b4634.html)
- [Hitachi - Smart dust](http://thefutureofthings.com/3221-hitachi-develops-worlds-smallest-rfid-chip/)
- [Biohackers Are Implanting Everything From Magnets to Sex Toys](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-19/biohackers-are-implanting-everything-from-magnets-to-sex-toys)
- [Qué es Samba TV y porqué está instalada en mi Smart TV](https://omicrono.elespanol.com/2018/04/que-es-samba-tv/)
- [No flipping: How smart TVs are getting quite smart about you](https://www.fastcompany.com/90220763/no-)

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