RE: What Surprised You About the Results of the Premier Farnell 2018 Global IoT Survey?

e14phil — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:45:07 GMT

I picked up a set of cheap Chinese internet cameras a few years ago (before I knew better) and this month their company went bust... Taking their servers offline rendering the cameras useless and me unable to add new ones.

I will certainly not be relying on other peoples servers for a much as possible for a service standpoint never mind security.

Phil

RE: What Surprised You About the Results of the Premier Farnell 2018 Global IoT Survey?

jomoenginer — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:59:06 GMT

This was posted in Embedded Computing Design as well:

http://www.embedded-computing.com/news/newark-element14-s-new-research-shows-hardware-s-important-role-in-iot-design

I am not surprised that Security is at the top of the list as a Key Concern Regarding IoT, but what are IoT product vendors doing about this? Every day now it seems there is another IoT device that has been hacked/cracked; most recently the Nest Camera and Thermostat. There are a ton of IoT devices that people buy up from the major vendors, and not so major vendors, many having either no security enabled or even having the default passwords still set from manufacturing. Frank Abagnale of Catch Me if You Can fame stresses that in 5 years with the advancement of technology, a person would be able to control another persons pace-maker or even vehicle from 5000 miles away; today that is more like 35 feet. The more Things get connected, the more Things that will be cracked (or hacked if you prefer). However, I believe it is not just vendors that need to do a better job of securing their products, but the consumer needs to be better educated regarding the hazards of using such devices and how they can prevent some of the attacks themselves. The funny thing is that if you ask a person who is a security expert, especially one in the Black Hat arena, they tend to not even want a connected device in the same room as them or even on their person.

The Personal Cloud Service being at the top of the What Cloud Service Provider is Preferred (Q14) is a bit surprising; but then again not really. However, I am interested in what would be considered a Personal Cloud Service. DropBox, iCloud or something similar. The biggies such as AWS or Microsoft Azure Cloud have the benefit of hundreds, if not thousands of security experts to work on securing a customers data. Trying to spin this on their own may be too much for many of the IoT vendors to take on. Maybe an on-premise solution is what they are referring to. There are the cloudless solutions such as OpenHAB or Hubitat but these are not Cloud services since they are local.

I do find the results of Q8 "What is the main reason for your company developing an IoT solution" with the number 1 answer amuzing:

"Because there is a need in the market"

It would be interesting if these are the same folks that came up with the i-Con smart condom, Egg Minder, JuicEro, or Amazon Dash. It has been reported that nearly 75% of IoT projects are or will fail. That certainly is not a good trend.

RE: What Surprised You About the Results of the Premier Farnell 2018 Global IoT Survey?

dougw — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 04:16:53 GMT

I think the biggest impediment to IoT build-out is a shortage of programmers. I'm not sure it was even on the list of options but is core to both Q1 and Q6.

I agree with you, Transportation and industrial automation will probably be larger than the survey suggests. Those industries have the capital and real financial motivation to invest in IoT.

Q13 - I am surprised that the 3 top operating systems in the world don't seem to be even represented in the gateway choices.