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IoT = more clients = more servers, no?

• petra 10y ago
  Not really. A typical IOT client sends a few bytes every few minutes or hours. that's not much. But the "internet of watching things", a world full of connected cameras is a different story. But it ain't a great slogan :)
  • shortsightedsid 10y ago
    > A typical IOT client sends a few bytes every few minutes or hours That's the SigFox definition of IOT but not necessarily typical for all cases. There are several usecases out there which require slightly higher bandwidth and data rate, but not quite broadband. One quick example is over the air firmware updates. Take MSP430. If we were to build a smart meter using a MSP430, our firmware probably be couple of kilobytes. Likewise, the size of the data can vary upstream as well.
    • petra 10y ago
      I agree that there are some other usecases, and they might impact wireless standards and chips at the client, for example. But do you think those usecases have a big impact when coming to evaluate how big of cloud the IOT will require ? if so, please share a bit, so we could grasp the scale of things.
• jethro_tell 10y ago
  To some extent. But most IoT applications aren't about heavy back-end processing. They are about capturing things that were to small to bother with before. The amazon dash buttons would actually save them a few page loads when you order tide because they never had to load the gui. If your fridge is emailing your shopping list to some server once a day ( assume it makes 5 or 6 calls while you cook dinner or whatever ) so again you're not making a huge impact on a server. It may be some increase, but much of that is probably offset as we become better at over subscription of huge servers.