While the numbers and percentages involving the Internet of Things are large, they are nothing compared to the dollars involved. Earlier this week, we provided a tally of the first six months of this year, both by the numbers and also by the percentages. Now that the first half of the year is over, I have also tabulated the stats and forecasts regarding the money involved.

Even if someone doesn't purchase a smart or connected car, they are getting more likely to come in contact with one. While manufacturers continue to add more Internet-connected features to their new and future vehicles, other entities are tapping into connectivity for their own fleets. The latest is a move by Avis, which just tuned its mobile app to unlock car doors, flash the car headlights in a lot and at rental, change cars with a swipe on a smartphone.

Augmented reality, which has been kicking around for years, owes a lot to Pokemon Go. A few years ago, I met with Layar tops execs at their headquarters in Amsterdam. Layar, one of the early AR pioneers, had launched AR back in 2009 for apartment searching. The idea was that a phone could be pointed at a building and the phone holder would see information and pricing of each apartment for rent or sale, as text overlayed on the phone screen showing the building via the phone's camera.

The percentage growth involving the Internet of Things is quite varied and in many cases rather stunning. Based on a tabulation of the market research that came out over the first six months of this year that I just completed, some of the growth areas are more than double and even triple over the previous year. As a follow to yesterday's look at the IoT numbers from the first half of this year (The Numbers In The Internet Of Things: A Mid-Year Tally), this is a different view of the IoT market.

Anyone tracking any major trends around the Internet of Things is certainly aware of the big numbers that keep coming out. I periodically take a pause to gather all the recent research numbers around the market to provide a snapshot of where things stand. As a mid-year review, here's a recap of the numbers from the first six months of this year, the Internet of Things by the numbers, with the source of each at the end. Hope this is helpful.

Cars are becoming much more connected. While the promise of self-driving cars becoming mainstream is a number of year away, many more cars are joining the Internet of Things. The trend is not new; it's just becoming much more visible. Many carmakers saw the impact of car connectivity coming, but the lead time for IoT car features still can be quite lengthy.

Since the foundation of the Internet of Things is actual networking, innovation can come from virtually anywhere. While many mobile startups were born, nurtured and scaled from New York and California, IoT entities are everywhere. Projects in Asia, Europe and North America are booming, with no real center of activity. There are some notable IoT hotspots, such as Boston and nearby towns, but creation is happening at different scales in different places.

The Internet of Things is starting to reach certain scales around the world. The wide-area deployments in some cases are a precursor of what's coming. Entire countries are creating IoT hubs of sorts so that many millions of smart devices can be connected and managed.

People sometimes can put too much trust in the technology that drives the Internet of Things. The reality is that even the greatest technology is prone to some form of glitch or failure at some point. And it's not always that the technology doesn't work; it sometimes is that it doesn't always work as expected. Sometimes it's also an issue of the amount of trust a human puts in the technology.