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  • Date Created: 21 Feb 2020 4:01 PM Date Created
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What puts you off about IoT Services?

There's AWS, Google, adafruit.io - what makes you roll your own or not use these services, or do you use these services? Add a comment below.

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  • stevesmythe
    stevesmythe over 6 years ago +8
    It's uncertainty over the cost rather than the cost itself. When using these services, I always delete the resource used as soon as I have finished testing as the cost seems to mount up inexorably. It…
  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 6 years ago +5
    Hi Christopher, Probably some of 1 and 2 from your list, I would worry I would likely forget I had subscribed and run up a large bill. However for me it would more likely be security related. Not because…
  • dougw
    dougw over 6 years ago +5
    It is the age old tug-of-war between big business that would like to centralize everything and maintain control of a continuous revenue stream; and the individual who wants to have local control and no…
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    BigG over 6 years ago

    I am rather surprised you mixed Google and AWS with Adafruit.io, which in my opinion, is the only IoT Service listed. I would consider Google and AWS to be more akin to IoT platforms.

     

    You forgot to add the catch-all "Other" category. Also what about those who do use these services. There is no tick box for that category of users.

     

    One aspect that might put people off would simply be "complexity". That is certainly the case with AWS for the majority of simple data capture applications. In those use cases, I found that people usually gravitate towards something like Thingspeak.

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    BigG over 6 years ago

    I am rather surprised you mixed Google and AWS with Adafruit.io, which in my opinion, is the only IoT Service listed. I would consider Google and AWS to be more akin to IoT platforms.

     

    You forgot to add the catch-all "Other" category. Also what about those who do use these services. There is no tick box for that category of users.

     

    One aspect that might put people off would simply be "complexity". That is certainly the case with AWS for the majority of simple data capture applications. In those use cases, I found that people usually gravitate towards something like Thingspeak.

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