With the rapid growth of technology, autonomous systems play a vital role in the development of new and current applications. For a system to be truly autonomous, a large amount of data is required to be gathered and analyzed beforehand. That data will then be used to solve issues faster in a more efficient manner. To gather the data, one method is to use IoT technology in autonomous systems. With it, as the system develops more applications, for everything made, a set of data is gathered and sent back to servers for further uses. IoT helps push through the bounds that humans create to improve on the technology.

One of the largest growing sectors in autonomous systems is self-driving cars. Autopiloting vehicles work using Internet of Things technologies (IoT). With companies such as Tesla in the lead of self-driving vehicles, IoT technology is familiar to them. It is essential to make their vehicles smarter and smoother to use for consumers. Cameras can be used in the car to detect potholes or issues on the road beforehand and guide the car to a safer path, while technologies like a GPU system can guide and help to avoid or redirect traffic. With millions of chips being made every day and being incorporated into their vehicles, companies like Tesla can advance their technology faster thanks to the amount of data gathered daily.

Farmers take advantage of autonomous systems with the use of Linked agriculture. It is a practice that uses autonomous systems embedded with IoT technologies to monitor, analyze, manage, control, and ultimately improve key agricultural processes throughout the agriculture cycle. To do this, farmers would have to have an IoT ecosystem in the farm, cloud, and office to have a 360 view of the entire agricultural cycle. The data gathered includes, however not limited to soil quality, temperature and moisture, and light. By using IoT applications and an autonomous system on their farm, farmers require less manual labor which increases the overall efficiency and reduces the risk of human error. It also is more eco-friendly as less water becomes wasted.

Overall, the key goal of autonomous systems is to create a system that can run on its own. Many industries take advantage of IoT technologies to gather enormous amounts of data to solve known problems. In the autonomous systems sector, sensors are one of the most widely used IoT applications as they are relatively cheap to assemble, extremely efficient in gathering data, and durable.