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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?
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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.
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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.
Pretty much all of those apply to a modern cellphone.
[gsmith@thing1 ~]$ ping thing2
Not the same. Embedded development was mostly about reducing cost by replacing custom mechanical and electronic devices with microprocessors and software. IoT is about taking inexpensive things and adding features in order to boost revenue, and also to create new revenue streams by collecting and selling personal data.
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.
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yup, not the same thing. IoT also is known as m2m or machine to machine. it tends to be sensor-based machines sending, then some analysis back-end (server) crunching thru the numbers (recently, realtime processing) and possibly sending back control signals ('turn this thing off', 'lower that value there').
embedded is just a part of that.
(I just got off a gig that was IoT related, fwiw)
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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.)
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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).
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....
IoT, IoT, IoT, IoT.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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