The Internet of Things was there even before it got that futuristic name. Part of the news at this Mobile World Congress this week is the steady growth of the industry that’s been making connected devices work for years.

This is the growth that Cisco Systems wants to tap into by buying Jasper Technologies, an IoT company more than a decade old, in a $1.4 billion deal announced just this month. While the two companies make it official, Jasper is signing more deals with partners to make IoT work even better. At MWC, it’s lining up with an automaker, a home-security vendor and a SIM card giant.

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