I'm hooking up a piece of kitchen equipment to a cloud backend. It's for a major restaurant chain. I've done this probably a dozen times over the last couple

I'm hooking up a piece of kitchen equipment to a cloud backend. It's for a major restaurant chain. I've done this probably a dozen times over the last couple of years as a demonstration of the technology. It always ends the same: Every party fights for ownership of the data, but nobody can figure out what to do with the data once they have it. Nobody wants to pay for it, much less support a subscription model. The free sites are held together with duct tape and chewing gum. Nobody wants to support it in the field. There are too many variables in network infrastructure. You can't use the network in the store because the cashier system is on there and PCI says no way. Getting a solid 802.11 signal in a room full of sheet metal is a nightmare. Customers want to use off-the-shelf cellular hotspots that are pieces of garbage and couldn't hold a TCP packet if it was covered in crazy glue. But the demonstrations always go well. The customers think it's cool. So on we go, boldly onward into the IoT future. I just pushed the next release up.