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Seems like there might be a market for some sort of universal IoT base unit that could be sold and maintained by someone who knew what they were doing. It could

Seems like there might be a market for some sort of universal IoT base unit that could be sold and maintained by someone who knew what they were doing. It could have a simple userland API and a simple external API, REST or otherwise, and OTA update capability. We need a (competent) Cisco for IoT devices. All of these various manufacturers are never going to get their act together. Even if they do, individually, the additional costs are likely to make them less competitive.

netsharc 10y ago
Fascinating idea... offer GPIO ports to read (and write) signals, offer cheap models ("2 GPIO ports? You got it!") to enterprise ones ("You want 1024 GPIO ports? You got it!"). And sell the backend solution too for enterprises, and offer a hosting solution for small scaled deployments. There's definitely a market for that. And imagine if you're the Mark Zuckerberg ("They 'trust me'. Dumb f*cks.") of all these devices. All that data...