Focus Universal Inc. (NASDAQ: FCUV) will showcase its Universal Smart IoT platform and next-generation SEC financial reporting software at CES 2026, presenting solutions that address fundamental challenges in both industries. The company will host demonstrations at Booth 10371 in the North Hall Showcase of the Las Vegas Convention Center from January 6th-9th, 2026.
The Universal Smart IoT platform represents a significant departure from traditional IoT development approaches. Unlike conventional systems where engineers start from scratch for each new device, Focus Universal's platform provides a pre-built common foundation that allows different IoT devices to share approximately 90% of the same hardware and software. This approach substantially reduces development costs and complexity while accelerating time-to-market. Central to this ecosystem is the Universal Smart Software Platform, which eliminates the need for multiple device-specific applications.
The company's Ubiquitor product exemplifies this efficiency, capable of connecting to any sensor without theoretical limits. As more sensors are added, the average cost per sensor becomes negligible, approaching the cost of the sensors alone. When used with the universal platform, total development costs represent a fraction of conventional approaches, offering substantial savings in both raw materials and engineering time. The platform's advantages include dramatic cost reduction by eliminating traditional IoT components like displays and buttons, universal interoperability enabling sensors from different categories to operate seamlessly together, and flexibility that allows functionality updates through software rather than hardware changes.
Industry context underscores the significance of this development. According to Statista, the number of IoT devices worldwide is expected to grow from 19.8 billion in 2025 to more than 40.6 billion by 2034, with the global IoT market projected to reach $2.65 trillion by 2030. However, industry surveys reveal high failure rates, with Cisco reporting 75% of IoT projects fail and Microsoft finding 30% fail at the proof-of-concept stage.
Focus Universal's second major innovation addresses SEC financial reporting challenges. The company has developed fully automated, end-to-end software powered by automation and Variegated AI that dramatically simplifies the traditionally complex, costly, and time-consuming financial reporting process. With a single click, the software can retrieve financial statements from accounting platforms, reformat data into spreadsheets, generate consolidated financials, populate SEC filing documents, convert to SEC-compliant versions via EDGARization, and embed accurate tags into HTML files with minimal manual input.
The software's EDGARization capability represents a substantial improvement over traditional methods. While conventional processes handle only ten pages per hour, Focus Universal's software can process a hundred-page SEC financial report in seconds. Built-in validation, including self-consistency and compliance checks, ensures accuracy and eliminates human error, transforming what once took months of manual work into a process completed in minutes. The financial reporting software market, valued at $13.9 billion in 2022, is projected to grow to $36.6 billion by 2030, driven by increasing data complexity, high compliance costs, and the need for scalable, efficient reporting tools.
