IoTgnosis

Out of the 'new challenges' that IoT presents reliable connectivity is surely one of the larger ones. Differing from the Internet where, thanks to $Billions of investments by Internet Providers, LAN and WiFi equipment suppliers and Mobile Operators over the last 20 years, we have reliable connectivity solutions the IoT world is filled with additional connectivity solutions where easy setup, security and reliability has not been fully established. This is particularly true in the low power area where the promise of multi-year battery powered devices end up using connectivity solutions that are far from proven to function over years, months, days or even hours. Add to this IoT use cases where low power networks need to function over larger geographic distances like building control, production monitoring or any other local area applications. For many years ZigBee and associated 802.15.4 standards provided technical solutions although for various reasons, ZigBee never really took ...

When I as a practitioner survey the current landscape of IoT I am surprised by the continuous state of 'infancy' of the IoT industry. Five years ago IoT was full of promise and hope and there was a lot of activity by critical components for creating this new industry - startups, established companies, semiconductor manufacturers, cloud services, new industrial devices and consumer products. Yes, IoT was ascending towards the top of Gartner's 'hype cycle' as research reports, consultants and conferences were touting the Internet of Things as the next new 'revolution' in high tech! Five years later the euphoria has disappeared and the 'wind seems to have gone out of the IoT sails'. During the last three years the IoT industry has been at a virtual stand-still (with a couple of key exceptions). What happened? What happened is that reality set in - IoT was not just an extension of the Internet where any individual or business could set up a web sit...