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One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects
dcblogs writes Evans Data Corp., which provides research and intelligence for the software development industry, said that of the estimated 19 million developers worldwide, 19% are now doing IoT-related work. A year ago, the first year IoT-specific data was collected, that figure was 17%. But when developers were asked whether they plan to work in IoT development over the next year, 44% of the respondents said they are planning to do so, said Michael Rasalan, director of research at Evans.
I had to google IoT....
Computers are things: Computers are on the internet: my code is on computers...
hope they get paid a lot of money.
The whole "Internet of Things" craze, or article summaries that presume everyone knows the acronym?
Or maybe people just used the term "embedded" previously and are now using "IoT" because of it being fashionable and are hoping for more money? You know, people do like to hop on whatever trend is currently getting lots of attention, even if it just means relabeling what you already have..
JESUSFUCKING CHRIST
With almost half of all developers thinking of switching to working on the IoT next year, I smell yet another bubble. IoT mania will be the new App mania.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Here's a list of reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things:
1) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I sleep.
2) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I pee.
3) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I make kaka.
4) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I pleasure myself.
5) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I wash my body in the shower.
6) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I relax in the tub.
7) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I brush my teeth.
8) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I make passionate love to my wife.
9) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I brush my hair.
10) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I read a book.
11) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I read Slashdot.
12) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I bake cake.
13) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I put in my contact lenses.
14) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I get ready to play golf.
15) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I do my laundry.
16) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I think about rugby.
17) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I tie my shoes.
18) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I celebrate the 4th of July.
19) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I water my flowers.
20) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I eat ham.
21) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I use my stapler to staple documents.
22) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I chew bubble gum.
23) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I check the oil in my car.
24) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I look for my TV remote.
25) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I blow my nose.
26) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I rearrange my stamp collection.
27) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I listen to the Backstreet Boys.
28) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I do my calisthenics.
29) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I search for a paper clip.
30) Internet of Things devices could send information about me to advertisers.
31) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I sleep.
32) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I pee.
33) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I make kaka.
34) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I pleasure myself.
35) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I wash my body in the shower.
36) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I relax in the tub.
37) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I brush my teeth.
38) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I make passionate love to my wife.
39) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I brush my hair.
40) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I read a book.
41) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I read Slashdot.
42) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I bake cake.
43) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly coll
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By Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld | Jan 28, 2015 9:45 AM PT
One-in-five developers now works on IoT projects
There are signs of explosive growth in Internet of Things development, and savings are being better defined
By 2020, professional kitchens, restaurants and other large food providers will be using appliances with sensors and scanners. They will track inventory and provide real-time ordering linked to pricing. Sensors and cameras will be embedded in ovens, refrigerators and even pans and will do things such as track temperatures and ensure food isn't overcooked or spoiled.
This "connected kitchen," as Gartner imagines and defines it, will contribute in five years at least 15% in savings in the food and beverage industry.
Building a connected kitchen, and all the other things the Internet of Things (IoT) is promising to deliver, will take a lot of development work. There are signs that this development is beginning to happen.
You could have expanded IoT at least once in the summary so I wouldn't have to click the link.
Could anyone ID IoT for me please?
I'll be writing software to make refridgerators randomly dispense ice, and turn off ovens when the food is half done.
Pretty much all of those apply to a modern cellphone.
Everyone knows the internet is for porn.. It is the internet of thingies..
I know people that won't leave home without their cellphone, it's crazy. I was thinking I'd just buy them all some ankle bracelets.
Any guesses about how many existing 'embedded system that connects to the internet in some fashion' projects were dubbed 'internet of things' in order to bring this new buzzphrase to prominence?
Yeah, yeah, I know, at some point the scale and pervasiveness of embedded connectivity may reach a point where it is different in kind, not just degree, from past use; but I submit that we aren't there yet by a nontrivial margin. For the moment, "IOT" seems to mean 'has a terrible smartphone app' or 'last model, you connected to the serial port to configure the system; when we revised the hardware it turned out that adding ethernet would be cheap and lots of customers wanted it, so we added it.'
Its that collection of things around your house such as your furnace, your fridge, the lock on your door, and your coffee maker, etc... that will stop working because your kid/spouse/parent clicked on a link that claimed to have naked pictures of whoever the current hot celebrity is.
[gsmith@thing1 ~]$ ping thing2
10 years ago 1 out of 5 developers worked on things that talked to each other, via IP we just didn't have a buzz word for it. Most new buildings in the last 5 years the network segment for the "things" is larger then the network segment for people.
Yes, the IoT is coming... as soon as IPv6 is fully deployed with stateless autoconfiguration so we'll have network addresses for all the things.
I hear both Verizon and Comcast are really happy about the idea of offering routable addresses for everyone, without finding some way to monetize it.
That's aIoT.
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
Marketing types love acronyms because ...
1) You don't know what it is, therefore they have the power because you have to ask them WTF they are talking about.
2) It presents an opportunity to explain what it is.
3) A new acronym is an exciting new concept!!! New word!
4) The feel of knowing something and being able to talk about something and no one else understanding the private conversation.
5) And some people respond to "magic letters" as being the easy secret they have been waiting for. Agile, ERP, CRM, URANUS, etc.
(In all fairness, if your job is to sell and promote something corporatey, you do need to have methods for getting attention and engaging people. But it seems like there was a Dilbert cartoon on this.)
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
They've created a buzzword so generic that it has already conquered 1/5th of software development. Bravo, pundits! Bravo!
...or a samsung 'smart' tv.
(from what I've heard. wish this was actually a joke, too)
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
I've worked on 'IoT' but only in the sense that IoT things are assumed to be small and low power, so small, low power designs are needed.
However making something small and low power is also a means of making is embeddable in other ways, such as in many places across a huge chip. The technical problem is the same. The need for small and low power is not IoT. However it is the justification to PHBs for doing what you do even if your primary application is something other than IoT.
In the mega corp I work for, I've been handed two recognition awards (plaque and cash) for meeting IoT challenges (I.E. making a design of mine 20X smaller) when it's primarily so I can put it the middle of other circuits at the point of use rather than bussing data across the chip. This yields many engineering benefits.
But IoT is the thing, so you sell it as an IoT solution and management pays attention.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
I call shenanigans.
There is no way that 20% of all developers are doing IoT, unless you define IoT to include all mobile app development or any device that has the ability to talk over any kind of comms channel (eg local bluetooth connection from device to diagnostic tool or a wireless keyboard for a tablet etc).
...pooh-pooh the entire idea, but then I realized a recent project of mine was putting various aspects of my salt aquarium's systems on my LAN using an RPi+.
So I'll just crawl back in my hole now.
At least I became aware of a new (to me) acronym. :)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
...or a samsung 'smart' tv.
(from what I've heard. wish this was actually a joke, too)
'Smart TV' is almost as much as an oxymoron as 'Reality Television'.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
That's the vast majority of people.
hey!
Yep, pretty crazy to refuse to leave home without a device that could quickly summon lifesaving personnel in case of an accident, right? Or a tow truck in case of a breakdown. Or a map to help you find your way. Or entertainment in case you're stuck waiting for a half hour before your appointment somewhere. Or a way for anyone to reach you at any time for anything.
Do you know when I finally broke down and bought my first cell phone? My dad and I were driving on a wintery day and saw an accident in front of us and immediately called 911 on his phone. Luckily, the kid was not injured, but I decided that I never wanted to be without the ability to make that call for someone if I had to. When we were growing up, my Mom would have absolutely loved for her kids to have the security of a mobile phone, and mentioned it on several occasions. She mentioned it would be wonderful to have those "Dick Tracey watches" we saw in comics / movies so she could call us at any time, no matter where we were.
The internet of things will have some killer niche applications, but it's not going to be the transformational experience for most people like cellphones/smartphones were. I'm just having a hard time seeing the same incredible utility that a smartphone offers for most people.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
It's just a pity that all ioT talks different languages. If only there were a secure, simple protocol so that they could talk to each other...
SMNP would have worked, but it completely stupid in its ambition to be a superstandard....
Yes, TFS should have defined it's acronym. Failing that, the editors could have caught it - typically, they didn't. Irritating.
On to the actual content: 1 in 5 developers are developing software for devices with embedded software that are likely to wind up with their own internet addresses. Given the high quality, secure software we are accustomed to seeing in routers, PCs, servers, etc.. Given the high level of security awareness we see in the developers in this area. I just gave a remedial lesson in SQL injection, damn it, isn't this stuff taught in primary school?
Given all of this, just think what we have to look forward to: more mediocre developers hard-coding security holes into every device with an embedded processor. Big companies like Verizon with their supercookies will soon be tracking your toilet flushes. The marketeers and the surveillance state will be vacuuming this up - the marketeers to sell you toilet paper, big brother so that the SWAT team can kick down your door while your pants are around your ankles.
O frabjous joy. Is it too late to strangle the Internet of Things in its crib?
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
I agree to some extent. The cellphone is the critical part, but the rest of it is definitely a nice bonus. I bought my first smartphone also rather late in the game, a little over two years ago, because my $20 flip phone finally died.
Look at the benefits a powerful mobile computer gives you. It's a built-in navigation computer. You can actually research and look up who you want to call, say, if your car breaks down (better than simply dialing information). If your internet at home goes down, you can navigate to your ISP's website and get tech help numbers (this happened to me). And of course, it's a great entertainment platform - I can watch videos, read a book, or play a game anytime I'm forced to wait around. For many people, their phone can probably now replace even their home PC.
Having a smartphone doesn't turn you into an asshole. There were plenty of those that existed long before those devices were invented. If they're not interested in engaging humanity around them, I probably didn't want to talk with them in the first place. I actually don't use my phone a whole lot, but I love the additional security and functionality it gives me when I can make use of it.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Ouf of 130+ comments, how many are just to talk about what the heck that acronym is -a lot.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Pretty much all of those apply to a modern cellphone.
A cellphone phone is a thing and it's usually connected to the internet. An internet of things no less.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Are you saying that every IoT device has a camera? Because I think you're a paranoid loon.
I kind of understand the hate for advertisers. On the other hand ads pay for a great many of the free services I enjoy so I except that they're not going away. The ads that bug me the most are the ones that don't pertain to me. It's better when the ads do a good job showing me something I care about. Unfortunately it's worst of all when they think they know me but are way off base like Audible that keeps showing me ads for books they know I've listened to. I'd rather they make good suggestions.
You don't need a minicomputer to call 911. You don't need a minicomputer to text your wife that you're running late. You might be surprised what a smartphone is useful for though.
I've had a smartphone for about six months now, and before that I didn't really think I needed one. Now I know I don't need one, and right now I don't even have cell service, but I have found a number of uses for it anyway. I've used mine as a flashlight, a level, as a compass, and to check my pulse. They make you wish you had a real camera, thus fueling the economy, and they will do in a pinch if you need photographic evidence of something. It makes a great guitar or instrument tuner. It will translate text on a billboard. It saves paper for grocery lists. And there are about a half million things that any networked, powerful computing device would be useful for: games, alarm clock, programming, et cetera.
However, I think I have an even better example. I came home for the holidays to Valdez, Alaska in 2011. As undoubtedly nobody knows, Valdez is by far the snowiest city in America with about 325 inches (8.25 m) of snow in a given year. That year was an extraordinary year for snow. By late January 350 inches lay on the ground, and this in a place where snow showers in May were not unheard of. Boats sank. Buildings collapsed. Everyone who could was shoveling. After the second time I cleared our roof the snow pile reached the second-story windows on every side of the house. This became a slight problem at about the same time when the heating fuel started to get low — the (chest-high) fill pipe for the house was now buried three times its height in snow. You'd think that these sort of permanent-house-features would be easier to find in this sort of situation. I spent about three days digging for the damn thing, but then remembered something a friend had mentioned: the magnetometers in smartphones can be used as metal detectors. I tromped in, borrowed my mom's cell, and found the pipe almost immediately. I'd come within a few inches of it, but then been digging in the wrong direction. It wasn't exactly a life or death situation, but it was pretty dire, and it was pretty much the only tool available that could have helped in that situation.
I get your point that smartphones enable some people to be rather conspicuously vapid, but I'm not sure that they wouldn't be just as irritating with some other toy. I do think it's wrong to disdain the tool because of the users. I'm glad you don't need one. I'm glad I had one when I needed it. I'm pretty okay with having one now, even if I don't use it much. Most especially I'm glad that my mom doesn't live in a place that gets thirty feet of snow in a year. However, if you do happen to visit that terrible place, I highly suggest you bring a smartphone. You never know when it might come in handy.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
2/7=28% which if you really want you can round down to 20% all is well then.
A cellphone phone is a thing and it's usually connected to the internet. An internet of things no less.
I'm pretty sure that you know that these "things" are things which have a purpose other than being a computer, which a cellphone doesn't. (POTS being obsolete today, though still useful)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Let technology lead where it may, and don't try to put premature labels on stuff.
Yesterday I was arms and elbows in a water meter box scooping out clay and wet mud from to expose all the fittings, to check for a leak.
So I reached for my trusty Sonic Screwdriver that I can point into the box with a setting that ultrasonically loosens and separates the clay from the metal and plastic, or give the handle a twist to another setting that reads relative concentrations of free chlorine molecules in the air near the tip with a series of beeps as they dissociate from the drinking water, the beeping faster as you bring it towards the leak. No chlorine? It's just rain water, no leak here.
But I grabbed my "Internet of Things" screwdriver by mistake. The little LED flashed orange for 20 seconds as it established a Wifi and cloud connection to Scandinavia then turned blue. Laying on the dashboard of the truck, a smartphone played a little tune and its screen cleared and said, "Welcome to Screwdriver 1.0 please select clockwise or counter-clockwise and click 'Submit'."
So like any clever monkey prying into an ant nest, I used the IoT screwdriver to stab into the clay and work it loose from under the fittings so I could fish them out in globby clumps. Then I stooped there watching everything for drips, while reflecting on the marvels of modern technology and how Big Solutions are imagined in giant tanks of Think thousands of miles away, and these solutions reach globally outward looking for Little Problems to solve.
We need more people at work to design a true Sonic Screwdriver. The Industrial Age is not complete until we have one. When it is perfected it could be connected to the Internet for access to p0rn.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
It's, you know, things...
But here's the twist: they're on the Internet!
And, no, there isn't any more to it than that. In other words, what the Internet has been for the last 50 years with nothing original added except new marketing hype(tm).
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Okay, I'm already a developer, but I work for a telco building our internal platform, but how low a bar is being a developer for this journalist?
... and today's pet project has
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Serenity now, insanity later.
IPV6 Addresses for all...
But if you want ports open and available, you have to pay extra.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
No kidding ...
For many years, I have been returning HTTP return code 418 (I'm a teapot) to obnoxious crawlers.
For example: Dealing with resource wasting crawlers in Drupal. Also here and here.
2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning.
They changed "mainframe" and "server hosting" into "cloud", "client/server" into "rich client", "statistics" into "data mining" and "big data", the original Mac look into "Shading-free GUI's" or the "flat look", and "embedded" into "Internet of things". It's not the new technology I have trouble keeping up with, but rather the new names for old shit.
Next you know the young whipper-snappers will take "variables" and call them "dynamic constants" and rave about the New Way of Programming.
Table-ized A.I.
A cellphone phone is a thing and it's usually connected to the internet. An internet of things no less.
I'm pretty sure that you know that these "things" are things which have a purpose other than being a computer, which a cellphone doesn't. (POTS being obsolete today, though still useful)
I think so. Thing is a pretty broad term.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Me too, and I've been working in field for 15 years and have a CS degree. Sounds like a bunch of BS to me.
Also working in IT I know about a Bazillion acronyms. Working for government has expanded that by about a Kazillion. A good rule of thumb, is that unless you are very sure your audience will know wtf it is you are talking about, use the full term first prior to abbreviating it. Otherwise you sound like an elitist asshole, some idiot talking out of your ass, or just someone that can't communicate properly. In all, a poorly written title and summary, so par for the course I guess.
I once got an email that was entirely made up of acronyms connected by small actual words like "the" and "is". It was more than several sentences long. It was not created as a joke. It was a mashup of IT, Government, and Management acronyms. Many of which could have been interchangeable (i.e. Information Technology VS Infrastructure Technology, etc...). So unless you knew not only all the abbreviations, along with the exact context it was given it would have been mostly gibberish. I actually laughed out loud upon reading it, and sent it around for a laugh. The best part was when I re-sent it to the author, they hadn't even realized that they had done it, totally unintentional, just trying to get an email off quickly.
And your mom.
(Sorry, it's been too long since I've seen one of those.)
That's what she said.
(I am so sorry. I promise to get out more.)
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Next you know the young whipper-snappers will take "variables" and call them "dynamic constants"
In Bluetooth (especially Bluetoothe Low Energy (BLE)) they already reanamed them. They call one a "characteristic" (when you include the metadata describing it) or a "characteristic value" (when you mean just the the current value of the variable itself).
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
I see your Internet Of Things, and raise you a few Hackers.
What a house of cards! 8-)