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I work in this space. While this platform looks a lot better than previous Google efforts, this is no way a solution. A key problem with IoT is too many standar
by brutus1213 10y ago
I work in this space. While this platform looks a lot better than previous Google efforts, this is no way a solution. A key problem with IoT is too many standards that don't play nice with each other. And this is not a technical problem - everyone just wants control of the platform. If you think Android is open, you are being naive. In recent months, I thought things were going to get better with major consolidation between Iotivity and AllJoyn. This is not a step in the right direction. Oh .. and obligatory xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:standards.png https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:standards.pn...
- XorNot 10y agoWhat I want is my IoT devices to get IP addresses and respond to a simple HTTP REST api. The semantics of it don't matter much to me, provided it supports SSL and avoids session-management BS as much as possible, but I'll deal. If you want to offer a cloudy service on top of that, I'll buy your cloudy-service box which offers to do that, but it better be using the same API to control those devices because maybe I don't want your cloudy box and want to integrate them with vendor B's devices or vendor C's + some homebrew stuff.
- brutus1213 10y agoI'm curious what kind of API would you want? There are so many devices out there, it makes things challenging. Best proposals I've seen define a base API for discovering what are other APIs that a particular device supports.