There is no single way to describe the Internet of Things (IoT)—it varies by industry, both in types of systems and in use cases ... retail and transportation are leveraging IoT.

"One of the other platform areas which is also finding traction is our IoT platform. So, everything from monitoring assets to utilities, to things like transportation, to even things like agriculture.

The tech giant has released a new line of three 5G industrial edge routers and an IoT gateway series for IoT and edge use cases ... utility substations and transportation, Cisco said.