November 4, 2020 —LIXIL joining OIN was a lead story in Tech Company News today reporting IDC predicts that by 2025 there will be 55.7 billion connected devices worldwide, 75% of which will be connected to an Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform. The pace of IoT integration into homebuilding solutions is also increasing. In order to mitigate the risk of patent aggression in core IoT platform functionality, numerous businesses — including LIXIL — continue to join OIN’s community.