This decade started with the rapid growth of connectivity options such as BLE5, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, satellite technologies, and many other exciting options. In particular, the power consumption of the devices has decreased an order of magnitude on the processing and communication front, leading to the capability of acquiring a large amount of sensor data at very low power while being power and cost limited to only send a handful of measurements.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.edgeimpulse.com/blog/AppliedIoTdevices