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You're focusing on the consumer space. The big promise currently is elsewhere - sensors, automation, warehouses (for physical goods), and so forth. This is espe
by cgh 11y ago
You're focusing on the consumer space. The big promise currently is elsewhere - sensors, automation, warehouses (for physical goods), and so forth. This is especially true for data collection in physically challenging environments, like mines.
This stuff is not necessarily tied to any cloud. There is a new term (wait for it), "the fog", that implies on-site data processing and analytics for all of these connected devices.
The funny part is the IoT is already here. Such systems are being deployed now in mining, oil and gas, etc.
- sanderjd 11y agoPure curiosity: Is security taken more seriously in those deployments than it is in the consumer stuff we've all heard of? (Would love some links to read up on the subject.)
- patburns 11y agoLooking at the wireless protocols being deployed in nearly all cases, my vote would be no. We are installing junk wireless with junk security, some of which is just comical. I don't have all the answers, but there are a few straightforward improvements to be made that I outline here: https://medium.com/the-startup-magazine-collection/a-simple-proposal-to-improve-security-for-the-internet-of-things-4fcc0663f70e https://medium.com/the-startup-magazine-collection/a-simple-...
- bsder 11y ago> Pure curiosity: Is security taken more seriously in those deployments than it is in the consumer stuff we've all heard of? <drink out nose> Thanks. You owe me a new keyboard. :) No. If anything, it's worse.