IoT Lives!

RE: IoT Lives!

clem57 — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:34:59 GMT

IoT has a lot of buzz going on right now. Until the "Me too" dies down, the real benefits will be masked by the euphoria IMHO.

Clem

RE: IoT Lives!

mcb1 — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:51:25 GMT

Christian

IOT is fine, but there also needs to be some management of the devices so they don't wipe out the internet bandwidth by simply broadcasting data non-intelligently.

The modern world seems to want 'instant' everything, but in reality a lot of this information doesn't need to be instant or even real time.

In many cases it is the trend that the system is adjusting for.

What would be rather nice is these companies putting together some form of common control protocol that can be used by all the simple devices.

This would allow 'xyz' to design and build this part, while 'abc' does this part and the consumer can then put together an integrated efficient system that was expandable and not locked to a single vendor.

Mark

RE: IoT Lives!

shabaz — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:45:25 GMT

Hi Christian,

Great points!! I'd not seen the EW article, but it does seem to dwell on just sensors. In fact there are plenty of companies with sensor products, but not complete IoT or IoE solutions.

There are other inputs (like Frederick's clock). And sensors becomes just one part of the bigger picture.

Sensors on their own are one thing, but scalable communication, data processing, and ability to create useful applications is needed. Things like local (fog) computing becomes important to gain some intelligence locally, and in fact reduce sensor flooding of data.

So important things are platforms and cloud services (XaaS), analytics capabilities in the cloud, and all the applications that people will use or will connect machines together.

The diagram below from "IoT:Smart Objects" by Giancarlo Fortino (reduced in size for fair use) shows an example architecture where on the left it shows different inputs such as social networks and intelligence from big data such as maps or weather reports (this is just one example architecture, others are different but all have a layered approach to try to reduce the complexity and make it a platform that can scale in devices, apps, users etc).

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