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Farnell Global IoT Survey 2019

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Check out the latest survey: Farnell Global IoT Survey and Competition 2020

 

Calling all IoT solution design engineers and hobbyists!

Please fill in this survey, which is open from 18th September to 4th December 2019.

 

We are looking to find out what you are working on. By enhancing our understanding of the market areas, design requirements and new trends in IoT, we can meet your needs and ensure we can support IoT product designs now and in the future. We want to know what technologies you are using for your IoT designs and what kind of applications you are working on at the moment.

 

Survey participants* can enter a prize draw with the opportunity to win:

  • An iPad pro (one winner)
  • A choice between a £250 Amazon gift card (or local currency equivalent) OR a drone of similar value (three winners)
  • £50 Farnell voucher (or local currency equivalent) to spend on the Farnell website for EMEA and APAC winners, or a $63 Amazon gift card for NA winner (six winners in total)

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We will publish the results in February 2020.

 

You can take the survey here: https://premierfarnell.getfeedback.com/r/Ixv6OzSh/

*Please read full T&Cs here: https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-93090/l/farnell-global-iot-survey-2019-terms-and-conditions

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  • It must be difficult to design a survey... but... lol... I did think it seemed poorly designed from my point of view, in terms of thinking how to answer it.

     

    As a hobbyist I have gone a long way to implementing an IoT  solution - a LoRa TTN gateway, and I have investigated and played with a number of solutions, including LoPy4, the STM Micro solution, ESP32 solutions, and a most recently a "Thingy " (which is a Bluetooth device rather than LoRa or WiFi solution, but is a great little demo unit for STEM stuff - which brings in my STEM ambassador hat too...)...

     

    Applications as a hobbyist include Environmental Monitoring and vehicle tracking...

     

    But at work I have an interest in seriously investigating the possibilities for Industrial IoT for monitoring the state of equipment in the field, to improve system reliability, and possibly to include software updates. But it is at a very early stage. Currently of interest on my radar are AzureSphere compliant chipsets that can be used for cloud applications not necessarily hosted by Microsoft Azure, but with the security taken care of by AzureSphere so that I can concentrate on the product functionality.

     

    Questions about where I see the most use of IoT in the future are of limited value... surely? Asking me what the single most important thing to me is depends on whether I am wearing my hat as a professional or as a hobbyist, so that was a bit confusing (I get confused easily perhaps?). Asking me twice seems a waste of a question... Asking me to choose the "one factor that I think would most accelerate the benefits of IoT", and then allowing me to choose more than one answer was presumably a slip-up...

     

    So I answered to the best of my ability from my professional point of view rather than as a hobbyist who is into IoT (or LoRa in particular at the moment)...

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  • It must be difficult to design a survey... but... lol... I did think it seemed poorly designed from my point of view, in terms of thinking how to answer it.

     

    As a hobbyist I have gone a long way to implementing an IoT  solution - a LoRa TTN gateway, and I have investigated and played with a number of solutions, including LoPy4, the STM Micro solution, ESP32 solutions, and a most recently a "Thingy " (which is a Bluetooth device rather than LoRa or WiFi solution, but is a great little demo unit for STEM stuff - which brings in my STEM ambassador hat too...)...

     

    Applications as a hobbyist include Environmental Monitoring and vehicle tracking...

     

    But at work I have an interest in seriously investigating the possibilities for Industrial IoT for monitoring the state of equipment in the field, to improve system reliability, and possibly to include software updates. But it is at a very early stage. Currently of interest on my radar are AzureSphere compliant chipsets that can be used for cloud applications not necessarily hosted by Microsoft Azure, but with the security taken care of by AzureSphere so that I can concentrate on the product functionality.

     

    Questions about where I see the most use of IoT in the future are of limited value... surely? Asking me what the single most important thing to me is depends on whether I am wearing my hat as a professional or as a hobbyist, so that was a bit confusing (I get confused easily perhaps?). Asking me twice seems a waste of a question... Asking me to choose the "one factor that I think would most accelerate the benefits of IoT", and then allowing me to choose more than one answer was presumably a slip-up...

     

    So I answered to the best of my ability from my professional point of view rather than as a hobbyist who is into IoT (or LoRa in particular at the moment)...

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