Top Smart TV in India Under 25000

Best Smart TVs Under 25000 in India 2020

TCL 100 cm (40 inches) Full HD Certified Android Smart LED TV 40S6500FS (Black) (2020 Model)

Mi 4A Pro 43 inch Full HD Smart LED TV

Samsung 32 inch HD Ready Smart LED TV

VU UltraAndroid 43 inch Full HD Smart TV

Onida 43 inch Full HD Smart LED TV

1) TCL 100 cm (40 inches) Full HD Certified Android Smart LED TV 40S6500FS (Black) (2020 Model)

Specifications:

Display Size	Full HD, 1920 x 1080
Display Type	LED with No 3D
Smart TV	Yes
HDMI and USB Ports	2 HDMI 1 USB
Refresh Rate	60 Hz
Viewing Angle	178 Degree
Brightness	320 Nits
Contrast	5000:1
Audio	2 Speakers With 20 WW Output
Operating System	Android
Model Year	2020
Warranty	1 Year Domestic Warranty

A+ Grade Full HD Panel

The A+ Grade Full HD Panel meets the highest industry requirement ensuring clear, detailed and rich picture quality. With the HD Ready resolution you can explore every detail for a crisp picture experience .

HDR 10

Enjoy watching your favorite movies in stunning detail, with an accurate reproduction of light and dark shades, which allows you view next-level HDR content from all sources.

Micro Dimming

Micro dimming analyses the TV content in 512 separate zones, adjusting the brightness and darkness separately. This technology ensures a fantastic viewing experience with great contrast and vivid picture quality.

IPQ Engine

Precision color field control, high brightness precision control, intelligent color range control and four-dimensional scene optimization are all the supported technologies of IPQ engine, which can optimize picture quality in color, brightness and contrast so as to bring better viewing experience for users.

Dolby Audio

Creates a rich, clear and powerful surround sound with Dolby decoder, which optimizes the TV’s sound quality and meets all your expectations on sound effect.

Built-in stereo box speaker

Exclusive design for India market, the built-in stereo surrounding box speaker creates a wider and louder range to deliver immersive surround sound using Dolby decoder technology, boosting TV’s sound quality

Smart Volume

The Smart Sound feature automatically detects the type of TV programme you’re watching (sports, news, movies, etc.,) and accordingly adjusts the sound settings.

Android 9

With the latest vision Android OS, enjoy endless and extensive movies, games, music, shows and apps for you and your family with full range of Google services. Google assistance will make your life easier and delight all your family members.

Make Life Intelligent With AI

With the Android 9 and Google Assistant built in, S6500FS offers an AI solution for your home life. You can easily access entertainment, get answers and control other home device just with your voice (The Google assistant requires internet connection, currently US English is available, Indian languages vision will be available post launch).

Built-in Chromecast

Built-in Chromecast makes casting your favorite videos, games, and apps from your mobile or tablet device to TV easy. One simple tap of Cast button on your Android or iOS devices is all you need to supersize the things you love.

Google App Store

Get all the top entertainment apps for your TV: Jio Cinema, Netflix, YouTube, Hotstar, Voot, YuppTV, Eros Now, and many more are available on TCL Android TV. All the apps for movies, shows, music, sports, and videos are ready to be downloaded and updated from Google Play Store.

Voice Search & Voice control remote

By using Voice Search, you do not have to look through the complicated navigation bar or do any tiresome typing, you can easily get what you like by asking with TCL metal Voice Remote.

Sports Mode

The optimization of images and sound allows audiences to enjoy the immersive feeling of live-action sports events.

Official Netflix

No matter what genre of content you like, you are sure to be entertained with the multitude of choices that Netflix provides. Enjoy Netflix original series, award-winning films, and documentaries directly on this TV. Now available in 4K UHD HDR quality.

Smooth Performance

The Quad-core CPU and the Dual-core GPU comes with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage. This makes for easy multitasking and reduced non-responsive situations, making sure that the TV runs smoothly.

2) Mi TV 4A PRO 108 cm (43 Inches) Full HD Android LED TV (Black) | With Data Saver

Specifications:

Display Size	Full HD, 1920 x 1080
Display Type	LED with No 3D
Smart TV	Yes
HDMI and USB Ports	3 HDMI 3 USB
Refresh Rate	60 Hz
Viewing Angle	178 Degree
Brightness	300 Nits
Contrast	1200:01:00 (Static)
Audio	2 Speakers With 20 WW Output
Operating System	Android
Model Year	2019
Warranty	1 Year Warranty on Product and 1 Year Additional Warranty for Panel

Full HD Display

Equipped with a Full HD Display, enjoy your multimedia content, favourite TV shows and movies in stunning quality. With a perfect balance of contrast and brightness, this television reproduces authentic colours and excellent clarity, giving you an immersive viewing experience.

PatchWall 3.0

The new and improved PatchWall 3.0 comes with content from all our apps right in your home page. The new exciting lineup of 20+ content partners include Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, YouTube, Disney+Hotstar, Zee5 and more. PatchWall 3.0 brings deep integration from apps, one click play*, all new Mi Lanting Pro font, new animations, and so much more under the hood improvements. *Subscription and one time login is required on the TV

Content Partners

20+ content partners including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+Hotstar, Zee5, Jio Cinema, Youtube, Voot, AltBalaji, ErosNow, SunNXT, Hungama Play, Sony LIV, Kutuki, Epic ON, Republic TV, ABP Live, Bloomberg Quint, Hoichoi, ShemaroMe, DocuBay, MX Player, Lattu Kids

Android 9.0

This Mi TV runs on the latest Android TV 9.0. Android TV brings the innovation of Google through simple, helpful entertainment experience. Making it easier for people to watch, play and do everything they love on their Mi TV.

Data Saver

Google Data Saver helps you easily access Android TV’s smart tv features using your phone hotspot. Stream movies on your tv, Watch up to 3X more video, view your phone’s media on your Mi TV.

Chromecast built in

Easily cast your favourite movies, music and more to your Mi TV. With Chromecast built-in, you can cast all your favourite content directly to your biggest screen at home.

Google Assistant

Do more on your Mi TV using your voice with Google Assistant. Press Google Assistant button on your remote to search across 500,000+ movies and show, get recommendations to match your mood, control smart home devices and more.

Powerful 20W Speakers + DTS-HD

With two dedicated speakers and powerful 20W output with DTS-HD delivers a stunning sound that not only matches the quality of the visuals but also fills the room with clear dialogues from your favourite movies and TV shows.

Performance

Mi TV comes with a powerful 64-bit A53 Quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage. With 7th generation imaging engine, you can enjoy reduced noise, professionally calibrated picture quality and a rich range of colors with every single frame

3. Samsung 32 inch HD Ready Smart LED TV

Samsung 80 cm (32 inches) Wondertainment Series HD Ready LED Smart TV UA32TE40AAKXXL (Titan Gray) (2020 model)

Now Samsung is no stranger when it comes to making quality panels. Be it making any sort of panel with 4K resolution or even HD TV panels. The Wondertainment series TV from Samsung provides a quality TV with HD panels with smart features.

The panel used on this TV is a 32 inch one. The resolution on the TV is at 1366x768 which is just HD. This is kind of underwhelming as for a TV and at the least, an FHD panel was expected. The refresh rate is 60Hz which is decent. The TV does come with HDR through which the panel gets divided into multiple zones that control the whites and blacks of these zones to deliver vivid colors. Plus, Samsung is providing features like Mega Contrast and PurColor which help to improve the color reproduction and contrast levels.

Coming to the ports selection we face some disappointments. Here we get to work with 2 HDMI ports and only 1 USB port. Thankfully there is an ethernet port for internet connection, TV antenna port, and the regular audio and visual ports. You can somewhat do by juts 2 HDMI port however a single USB port is not at all enough limiting the number of USB accessories that can be plugged into only one.

The TV runs on a Tizen based OS and comes with a couple of neat features. Some of them being live cast that allows the users to stream content live on the TV. Two-way sharing allows for music and video playback on to the TV and vice-versa.  Now Tizen OS doesn’t bring the power of Android TV with it, however, it covers the basic needs of running apps like Netflix and YouTube. Though the processor in-use is not mentioned however running basic apps should not be a problem. Other standard features include a 20W speaker with Dolby Digital and support for Wi-Fi.

Go for it if you prefer big brands like Samsung and need a smart tv under 20000.

Specifications:

Display Size	HD Ready, 1366 x 768
Display Type	LED with No 3D
Smart TV	Yes
HDMI and USB Ports	2 HDMI 1 USB
Refresh Rate	60 Hz
Viewing Angle	178 degree
Brightness	400 Nits
Contrast	Mega Contrast (Static)
Audio	2 Speakers With 20 WW Output
Operating System	Tizen
Model Year	2020
Warranty	1 Year Comprehensive Warranty on Product and 1 Year Additional Warranty on Panel from Samsung

4. VU UltraAndroid 43 inch Full HD Smart TV

Vu 108 cm (43 inches) Full HD UltraAndroid LED TV 43GA (Black)

The UltraAndroid series from VU focuses on the two most important things: display and audio.

Beginning with the display, we have a 43-inch panel. This resolution of the panel is Full HD 1920X1080p. The high resolution makes picture pop from the display. Images look nice and crisp with tons of details, all thanks to the high resolution. Apart from the High resolution, VU has packed in quite some neat features with the UltraAndroid. The panel goes as bright as around 400 nits. Then the UltraAndroid comes with adaptive contrast and digital MPEG noise reduction to deliver great clear picture quality.  Finally, the Hi-End Processor helps power all these picture resolutions without these problems. Apart from these feature the panel use also an A+ graded one.

The ports on the TV include 2 HDMI ports, 2 USB ports an ethernet port for fast internet connection, digital audio out, antenna port, and a headphone jack. VU has added all the essential ports that you would require in day to day life.

The processor used to power the UltraAndroid is a quad-core one which is backed by 1GB of RAM and an 8GB of internal storage. This is more than enough horsepower required to run day to day apps like Netflix, YouTube, and Prime Video. This is also thanks to the fact that the TV runs on Android TV OS.  There is also support for a Google Play Store to download apps and games.

Additional features include a 24W speaker system which is tuned by Dolby Digital and DTS Studio Sound, Favorite channel list, and Power off if no signal to conserve energy. Finally, a year of warranty keeps you covered from all manufacturing defects.

Overall, it is a great android smart TV under 25000 from VU and is one of our favorites as well.

Specifications:

Display Size	Full HD, 1920 x 1080p
Display Type	LED with No 3D
Smart TV	Yes
HDMI and USB Ports	2 HDMI 2 USB
Refresh Rate	60 Hz
Viewing Angle	178 Degree
Brightness	400 nits
Contrast	10000:1
Audio	2 Speakers With 24 WW Output
Operating System	Android
Model Year	2019
Warranty	1 Year Vu Domestic Warranty

5. Onida 43 inch Full HD Smart LED TV

Onida 108 cm (43 Inches) Fire TV Edition Full HD Smart IPS LED TV 43FIF (Black) (2019 Model)

If you want a TV that runs on a dedicated operating system apart from Android TV. If you want it to have an FHD panel. And finally, if you are on a tight budget. The Fire TV from Onida is one of the very few options out there.

Like we mentioned before the Fire TV runs on Amazons dedicated Fire OS. The UI and functionalities are very similar to that of Android Tv with a slight difference here and there. You get similar functionalities with the exception of Alexa being integrated tightly with the system instead of Goggle Assistant as seen on Android TV. you get 1Gb of RAM for multitasking and the overall experience that you get is pretty decent for the price that the TV is available. 

The display used on the Fire Tv is a 43-inch FHD one. You get great color reproduction and a very decent media consumption experience too. Thanks to Lucent Picture Engine you not only get great picture quality but also great contrast and amazing colors too. For connectivity, you get 3 HDMI ports, a USB port, arc port, audio cables, and the support for wireless connectivity in the form of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is also present. 

The inclusion of a 16W speaker tuned by both Dolby and DTS is present on board and both of them deliver a very decent audio experience. All in all, Fire Tv will not disappoint you by no means and you will enjoy using it. Go for it if you are looking for 43-inch smart tv under 20000 and 25000.

Specifications:

Display Size	Full HD, 1920 x 1080 Pixels
Display Type	LED with No 3D
Smart TV	Yes
HDMI and USB Ports	3 HDMI 1 USB
Refresh Rate	60 Hz
Viewing Angle	178 degree
Brightness	350 nits
Contrast	4000000:1 (Static)
Audio	2 Speakers With 16 WW Output
Operating System	FireOS
Model Year	2020
Warranty	1 Year Onida Standard Warranty

The 10 Most Relevant IoT Developments of the Year

1. Most exciting new IoT connectivity technology: Nano satellites

In the 2018 year in review article, we discussed the first commercial launch of 5G networks. Despite the fact that many more 5G networks were switched on in 2019, we did not consider 5G as the connectivity story of the year as the global roll-out of 5G networks was largely foreseeable.

The fact that several companies are launching IoT nano-satellite services that promise to provide ubiquitous connectivity, even in places where no connectivity has reached before, is really exciting. Eutelsat in November announced that it will launch 25 satellites to serve the IoT market. The company is partnering with Sigfox and is targeting transport, oil and gas, and agriculture deployments with its new technology. The Eutelsat news comes on the back of several startups that hope to capitalize on the same opportunity, including Switzerland-based Astrocast and Australia-based Myriota and Fleet Space Technologies. Only 24 hours after launching its Lora-based satellite network “Project Galaxy”, in February 2019, Fleet Space reported that 1 million devices were registered to be connected. In May 2019, Myriota became one of the first companies to connect to the new AWS managed satellite service called “AWS Ground Station”. The service lets users manage their satellite communication and data and can be used for IoT-type scenarios (but it is not exclusive to IoT).

In a similar move, in April 2019, Amazon (AWS), announced that it plans to launch a constellation of 3,236 satellites into low Earth orbit in order to provide internet to “unserved and underserved communities around the world”. The company did not specifically mention IoT applications as a target.

2. Most controversial IoT story: Huawei 5G equipment ban

One of the major tech stories of IoT 2019 involved the Chinese company Huawei and its 5G equipment. In May 2019, the US government blacklisted Huawei due to accusations of helping the Chinese government with espionage. The US has major concerns regarding the upcoming rollout of 5G base stations across the country and believes Huawei may be sharing data with the Chinese government.

Some experts initially predicted that other countries would follow the U.S. with a similar blacklisting strategy, however this did not happen. Although the blacklisting represented a major blow to Huawei’s international business, the company managed to shrug off the news by posting an 18% top-line revenue growth in 2019, compared to 2018. This was in part driven by Chinese consumers who majorly backed Huawei during the dispute with the US.

The whole story has a twist that is not too positive for the U.S.. Huawei, which was a major customer for several US-based chip manufacturers has now switched a majority of its chip supplier basis to Chinese, Taiwanese, and European firms instead.

3. Most influential publication: Microsoft IoT Signals

In July 2019, Microsoft published a comprehensive IoT research report, called IoT Signals. The report stands out due to its large sample size of n=3,000 IoT adopters. It gives a candid look at the current state of IoT adoption, highlighting the top use cases in various verticals among other things. The report also found that “Security” is becoming less of a challenge and that one-third of IoT projects fail in proof of concept (POC) – which is in sharp contrast to a 2017 study published by Cisco claiming that “60% of IoT initiatives stall at the Proof of Concept (PoC) stage”

4. Most important IoT technology evolution: Containers/Kubernetes

IT architectures are fundamentally changing. Modern (cloud-based) applications build on containers, thereby bringing a whole new set of flexibility and performance to deployments. This is also becoming true for any centralized or edge IoT deployment.

It is fair to say that by now, Google’s open-source platform Kubernetes has largely won the race of container orchestration platforms, and Docker is the most popular container runtime environment (desipite the companies financial issues)

2019 saw several heavyweights in the IT and OT industry refine their container strategy:

1. VMware. In August 2019, at VMworld 2019, leading virtualization software provider VMWare laid out a holistic Kubernetes strategy. The company believes that “Kubernetes will prove to be the cloud normalisation layer of the future”. It launched VMware Tanzu, a cloud platform that manages Kubernetes container distribution and allows to build and deploy applications.
2. Cisco. The networking giant which had launched its “Cisco Container Platform” in early 2018 and announced joint projects with Google Cloud and AWS, in July 2019 completed its big 3 cloud partnership portfolio by announcing that Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Services are now natively integrated into the Cisco platform
3. Siemens. Industrial giant Siemens in October 2019 bought Pixeom, a software-defined edge platform, with the goal to embrace container technology for edge applications in factories. The Pixeom technology is built on the Docker runtime environment.

Further notable news saw HPE launch its own Kubernetes container platform in November 2019, and high-flying startup Mesosphere changed its name to D2iQ in August 2019 and shifting its strategy partially away from its own “Mesos” standard to focus further on Kubernetes deployments.

5. Largest startup funding: Samsara

In September 2019, Samsara, a San Francisco-based maker of IoT hardware and software, raised $300M in Series F funding. This round represents the largest single startup funding round in IoT 2019.

Samsara is quite a story. Founded in 2015, the startup has gone from 0 to 1,500 employees in less than 5 years, backed by well-known VC fund Andreessen Horowitz. Samsara makes both IoT software and hardware components. The hardware portfolio includes (among other things) cloud-based machine vision systems, industrial controllers, gateways, HMIs, and environmental sensors. The firm has a strong focus on IoT in transportation and fleet management. Samsara claims to serve over 10,000 customers and is active in 10 countries. Many of the customer case studies on the Samsara website highlight IoT projects with logistics and trucking companies as well as with cities as Samsara’s initial product was geared towards these firms.

Notable other investment rounds of 2019 (with relevance for IoT) included:

Name	Funding stage	Amount	Country	Category
Terminus Technologies	Series C	$286M	China	IoT Platform & Smart City Solutions
Infarm	Series B	$100M	Germany	IoT-based vertical farming
Armis Security	Series C	$65M	USA	IoT Security
InfluxData	Series D	$60M	USA	Time-series database
Tile	Series C	$45M	USA	Consumer asset tracking

6. Largest M&A Deal: none (but many small acquisitions)

2019 saw no IoT-related mega deal as in the previous years (for example, we highlighted the $34B Red Hat acquisition by IBM last year).

The reason for the lack of mega acquisitions in IoT 2019 may be the combination of two factors. Firstly, many publicly listed companies achieved new all-time high valuations, thereby making the acquisition multiplies higher than in the past.

Secondly, the majority of the most visible IPOs in 2018 and 2019 disappointed in their first year of being public. Most notable are ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft which both declined 30-40% in value since their IPOs earlier in 2019. We highlighted the Sonos IPO last year as an IoT story; that stock is down 25% since its IPO. When talking to investors, it also becomes clear that the story of the failed WeWork IPO (which saw WeWork’s valuation plummet from $47B to $10B in a matter of weeks) is overshadowing investment decisions and leading to more caution going forward.

Notable acquisitions of 2019 (with relevance for IoT) included:

Acquirer	Acquired company	Deal size	Category
Siemens	Pixeom	undisclosed	Edge Computing
Aspen Tech	Mnubo	$102CAD	Analytics
Vodacom	IoT.nxt	undisclosed	IoT Platform
Geotab	BSM	undisclosed	Telematics
Digi Intl.	OpenGear	$140M	Remote Infrastructure Management
Cisco	Sentryo	undisclosed	IoT Security
Microsoft	Express Logic	undisclosed	Real-time operating system
Avnet	Witekio	undisclosed	Embedded Software
PowerFleet	Pointer	$140M	Telematics
Dialog Semiconductor	Creative Chips	undisclosed	Semiconductor
Palo Alto Networks	Zingbox	$75M	IoT Security
Cognizant	Zenith Technologies	undisclosed	IoT System Integration in Life Sciences

Note: The acquisitions of CarbonBlack ($2.1B) and Pivotal ($2.7B) by VMware in the summer of 2019 may be regarded as IoT-related acquisitions in the wider sense but were not considered further here as IoT is not mentioned as an acquisition rationale.

7. Consumer IoT breakthrough: Micromobility

Light IoT-enabled vehicles such as smart scooters, electric skateboards, and shared bicycles swamped the streets of hundreds of cities throughout the world in 2019. These new modes of transportation make up a new and burgeoning category of products referred to as micromobility solutions. Leading providers include Uber Jump, Lime, Bird, and Spin in Europe and North America as well as Meituan / Mobike, Ofo, Hellobike and Didi Qingju in China.

The explosive growth of micromobility in 2019 is breathtaking. Lime, which is now active in 120 cities around the world, in September celebrated its 100 millionth ride, a 16-fold increase from its 6 million ride landmark achieved just 14 months earlier.

Despite the impressive growth of micromobility solutions questions linger whether these new services are a short-term fad that will vanish, whether the companies supplying the bikes actually will become profitable, and whether regulation will stand in the way of their success in 2020. Regulators around the world have been targeting micromobility, with France imposing 25 kmh speed limits and banning scooters from pavements and Singapore imposing a “zero-tolerance” ban on the use of personal mobility devices (PMDs) on pedestrian footpaths. Meituan already retracted its growth ambitions by pulling out of non-Chinese markets in March 2019.

8. Most promising new technology: Secure cloud-ready chips

In October 2019, Microsoft announced that its Azure Sphere microcontroller (MCU) would be generally available in February 2020. Microsoft Azure Sphere is a promising new microchip technology that allows any device manufacturer to create equipment with native, highly secure cloud integration. The new offering presents a way to securely connect the billions of MCU-based devices which cannot currently be connected in a secure fashion very easily due to their limited compute and storage capabilities. Current hardware partners of the technology include chip makers MediaTek, NXP, and Qualcomm as well as Avnet, seeed and a few more.

Starbucks is an early adopter of the new technology. The company retrofitted some of their coffee machines with an external device called a “guardian module” in order to securely aggregate data and proactively identify problems with the machines.

Cisco, in December 2019, also announced its own silicon architecture, called Cisco Silicon One as part of its new “Internet of the Future” initiative. The company claims that Silicon One is the industry’s first networking chip designed to be universally adaptable across service provider and web-scale markets, designed for both fixed and modular platforms. Instead of maintaining numerous chip architectures across different devices, Cisco will now just focus on one programable ASIC. It is part of Cisco’s strategy that will see networks become more converged, cloud-enhanced, and fabric-based.

9. Most promising upcoming new theme: IoT and the environment

2019 goes down as the year in which a new era of climate change awareness started. Driven by Greta Thunberg and the Friday’s For Future initiative, 2019 saw two globally coordinated multi-city protests involving over 1 million students each. In May 2019, Thunberg was featured on the cover of Time magazine, which named her a “next generation leader” and noted that many see her as a role model.

It seems that this new awareness for climate action and sustainability not only reached millions of individuals but is also leading large corporations (in the IoT domain) to reprioritize their top-level strategies.

In September, wireless sensor network hardware and software provider Libelium, published a report examining at how IoT contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how the company is providing the right technology that supports achieving these goals.

In November 2019, leading industrial conglomerate Siemens let the world know that it is witnessing that customer requirements are changing and that from now on “environmental efficiency is just as important as productivity, flexibility and time-to-market”, something the company hadn’t spelled out that explicitly before. Siemens highlighted how it uses IoT and related technology to help a chocolate manufacturer reduce primary energy consumption by 20% and how the use of Digital Twins and the MindSphere IoT Platform may lead its customer Grundfos to save 50 billion liters of fresh water in the future. One of Siemens’ main competitors, Schneider Electric, uses a similar theme to describe its top-level company strategy: Schneider Electric is now positioning itself to provide “Energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability”.

Many IoT providers now have sections on their websites that are dedicated to the environment, sustainability or simply “IoT for good”. Example include connectivity providers Aeris Communications, AT&T as well as Lora/Semtech.

10. Consumer IoT failure of the year: Smart Home Security Cameras

In early December 2019, a series of hacks of the popular home security camera system Ring (which was purchased by Amazon in 2018), shocked the world. Hackers in various U.S. locations managed to get access to the video live stream of unsuspecting Ring users, in several instances talking to and scaring children in their bedrooms. The first victims of the hacks are now suing Amazon over the incidents.

On December 30, 2019, another major Smart Home Security firm, Seattle-based Wyze, reported that it also had become the target of a major hack that is estimated to have affected 2.4 million customers. The hack exposed user email addresses and information about the last time they logged in, and it is reported that some customers even had their health data leaked.

While home security firms Ring and Wyze may have been the most prominent examples of IoT device hacks, there were many other attacks on consumer IoT products that received much less attention. Kaspersky reported that it had detected over 100 Million IoT device hacks in the first half of 2019 alone, a 9x increase from the same period in the previous year.

In July, two security researchers discovered that a user database belonging to a Chinese company called Orvibo, which runs an Internet of Things (IoT) management platform, had been left exposed to the Internet without any password to protect it. The database included more than 2 billion logs containing everything from user passwords to account reset codes and even a “smart” camera recorded conversation.

In August, Microsoft exposed a group of Russian hackers that were responsible for an IoT-based attack on a number of Microsoft customers.