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There is a lot to learn yet. The Internet of Things is a new paradigm for interacting with the world. Anyone who has developed applications that aggregate the c

There is a lot to learn yet. The Internet of Things is a new paradigm for interacting with the world. Anyone who has developed applications that aggregate the control of disparate devices and tried to make them work together knows what the pain points are. For starters, there are many reasons why a Thing on a network might not do what you tell it to do. Error handling is a huge PITA.

eldavido 13y ago
+1. It's going to be a while before this all shakes out. I hope the standards bodies wait a bit and cherry-pick the best parts of the various vendor implementations, rather than trying to jam something incomplete and poorly specified into the market now. With all this noise about "standards" though, it's important to remember how much we (computer people) take for granted. I, as well as the majority of people here, I'd guess, wouldn't consider building a new device that doesn't use TCP/UDP and IPv4/6. There'll be a battle on the layer-1/2 front (radios, electrical stuff) and messaging formats (OSI layer 5+: application, session, presentation), but let's not forget how far we've come.