One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects 252
dcblogs writes Evans Data Corp., which provides research and intelligence for the software development industry, said that of the estimated 19 million developers worldwide, 19% are now doing IoT-related work. A year ago, the first year IoT-specific data was collected, that figure was 17%. But when developers were asked whether they plan to work in IoT development over the next year, 44% of the respondents said they are planning to do so, said Michael Rasalan, director of research at Evans.
I'm 4 of 5 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm 4 of 5 (Score:5, Funny)
I had to google IoT....
Me too. I had no idea that many people worked at Institutes of Technology.
I was going to... (Score:2)
...pooh-pooh the entire idea, but then I realized a recent project of mine was putting various aspects of my salt aquarium's systems on my LAN using an RPi+.
So I'll just crawl back in my hole now.
At least I became aware of a new (to me) acronym. :)
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Internet of Toilets? [gearburn.com]
Re:I'm 4 of 5 (Score:5, Funny)
I had to google IoT....
I just asked my toaster.
Re:I'm 4 of 5 (Score:4, Funny)
And the toaster told you it means Internet of Toasters [embeddedarm.com], right ?
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I'd vote for Intelligent omnipotent Toasters.
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I output Toast.
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Re:I'm 4 of 5 (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I'm 4 of 5 (Score:5, Funny)
Holly: "Strike a light! I'm a genius again! I know everything! Metaphysics, philosophy, the purpose of being-everything! Ask me a question, any question, and I'll answer it."
Talkie Toaster: "Any question?"
Holly: "Yes."
Talkie Toaster: "How to break the speed of light? How to marry quantum mechanics and classical physics? Any question at all, truly anything and you will answer?"
Holly: "Yes."
Talkie Toaster: "OK, here's my question: Would you like some toast?"
Holly: "No, thank you. Now ask me another."
Talkie Toaster: "Do you know anything about the use of chaos theory in predicting weather cycles?"
Holly: "I know everything there is to know about chaos theory and predicting weather cycles"
Talkie Toaster: "Oh, very well. Here's my second question: Would you like a crumpet?"
Holly: "I'm a computer with an I.Q. of 12,000. You don't seem to understand; I know the meaning of the universe."
Talkie Toaster: "That's not answering my question."
Holly: [irritated] "No, I would not like a crumpet! Now ask me a sensible question, preferably one that isn't bread related."
Talkie Toaster: "Very well. I have a third question. A sensible question. A question that will tax your new I.Q. to its very limits and stretch the sinews of you knowledge to bursting point."
Holly: This is going to be about waffles, isn't it?"
Talkie Toaster: Certainly not. And I resent the implication that I'm a one-dimensional, bread-obsessed electrical appliance."
Holly: I apologise, toaster. What's the question?"
Talkie Toaster: The question is this: Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?" --- Red Dwarf ep. "White Hole"
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there isn't an IoTa of awareness
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c'mon man, don't mess it up
it's called the IoT of Things
Marketing Dipshits Do That On Purpose (Score:5, Insightful)
1) You don't know what it is, therefore they have the power because you have to ask them WTF they are talking about.
2) It presents an opportunity to explain what it is.
3) A new acronym is an exciting new concept!!! New word!
4) The feel of knowing something and being able to talk about something and no one else understanding the private conversation.
5) And some people respond to "magic letters" as being the easy secret they have been waiting for. Agile, ERP, CRM, URANUS, etc.
(In all fairness, if your job is to sell and promote something corporatey, you do need to have methods for getting attention and engaging people. But it seems like there was a Dilbert cartoon on this.)
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On the web, that translates to "clickbait". A well-edited news aggregator site should counteract these petty tricks by providing notes. Slashdot didn't, of course.
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I found this post IAU.
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I had to google IoT....
Well, you could also have clicked on the link in TFA, for a change!
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I had to google IoT....
Well, you could also have clicked on the link in TFA, for a change!
You must be new here...
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Computers are things. (Score:4, Insightful)
Computers are things: Computers are on the internet: my code is on computers...
lot of that going around (Score:3)
What's more irritating? (Score:5, Informative)
The whole "Internet of Things" craze, or article summaries that presume everyone knows the acronym?
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The whole "Internet of Things" craze, or article summaries that presume everyone knows the acronym?
And still I don't know what that means. I guess the old chestnut "Google Is Your Friend" is in order here...
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Imagine giving devices, like data loggers and sensors, an IP address.
CONGRAUTLAMALATIONS! YOU'VE INVENTED THE INTERNET OF THINGS.
Seriously, that's all this bloody well is. Sensors communicating with IP. Possibly with some "big data"-style analysis tools.
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The thing is real hackers have been doing this shit for years.
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I think I was the dork who invented the term. I said it accidentally to my boss who repeated it to sever of his bosses. Then they started using it at M2M conferences....
It is just remote sampling of data. Pumping it thru some wireless service. Then acting on it at the server level in some way.
Thats it.
They got *very* excited one day when I added in remote control of stuff. I had to as that was the only way to get some controller to cough up its data. They then started speculating on webs of things and
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The job of an editor is to make text readable without resorting to Googling things. I think the even older chestnut of "why does slashdot even have editors?" is far more appropriate.
Re:What's more irritating? (Score:5, Insightful)
Internet of Things has actually managed to surpass my hatred of "The Cloud"
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Internet of Things has actually managed to surpass my hatred of "The Cloud"
Both will end up as roadkills on the information superhighway...
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Internet of Things has actually managed to surpass my hatred of "The Cloud"
When you start hating lingo, it means you are old.
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I have been old for a very very very long time then.
Truly the "Internet of Things" is "Totes Adorbs"
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Wait for that Cloud of Things...
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You need to put the two together... for synergy.
Re:What's more irritating? (Score:5, Funny)
I was actually thinking about leveraging the parallel symmetries that exist between the paradigm shifting next generation technology that is the INTERNET of THINGS and the once in a generational market disrupting future shaping technology now known as The Cloud to achieve never before seen levels of synergy, segment alignment and leading edge thought processes, allowing us to disrupt old world dinosaur markets and take us into the new age of Big Data.
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Don't you worry. Based on a Microsoft presentation last year you can leverage the power of Azure to combine the cloud with your internet of things application and achieve world domination in the field of buzzword integration.
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Remember "Information Super Highway"?
Still makes me twitch a little.
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The funny thing is your hatred is only really directed at the marketing of two things which have been used elsewhere from decades. Both are actually good ideas.
The idea of remote access to information, remote backup, and online services have been around for longer than the internet. Just now when someone uses a fancy name like "The Cloud" people freak out about it.
Likewise the idea of continuous monitoring of assets to gauge reliability and potential cost savings opportunities has been around since factorie
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Specifically it is the terms I hate, not the technology behind them. Its the same as I hate terms like twitterati.
The Cloud annoys me because you have been able to rent servers. IoT annoys me because it just feels like a bollocks name.
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I have learned to contain sufficient hate in my heart now for blogs, facebook, twitter, cloud and internet of things. I hope they don't come up with anything else that needs adding to that list :(
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Pintrest?
Whatsapp?
Snapchat?
Slashdot Beta?
G+?
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all of those items are much easier to ignore or avoid, at least for me.
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What's more irritating? The whole "Internet of Things" craze, or article summaries that presume everyone knows the acronym?
Neither. I agree with the hype about IoT. I think it will be as big a change to society 40 years' time as the Internet has been so far.
Now what is irritating, though, is all the Slashdot posts complaining about IoT...
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Neither. I agree with the hype about IoT. I think it will be as big a change to society 40 years' time as the Internet has been so far.
Now what is irritating, though, is all the Slashdot posts complaining about IoT...
Ah, would you perchance happen to be the submitter?
Because most others here think buzzwords like these are pretty damn lame, and says more about the user than the technology. Let technology lead where it may, and don't try to put premature labels on stuff.
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I know it, but this is just another worthless hype-fest that will produce nothing of any use.
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The whole "Internet of Things" craze
The 'craze' consists mainly of these few articles that try to whip up a mad frenzy of mild interest. I'm sure, in five years' time it will be forgotten, and then maybe in ten years we'll occasionally be surprised by discovering that there are actually a few areas in which it is used and proving useful. It is in fact not a bad idea as such, being able to just connect certain things to the wider internet without having to bother with configuring NATs or similar things; they probably won't be things that are
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LoT = Lord of Things.
salty things, but only if you subscribe to objectifying women
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Not the same. Embedded development was mostly about reducing cost by replacing custom mechanical and electronic devices with microprocessors and software. IoT is about taking inexpensive things and adding features in order to boost revenue, and also to create new revenue streams by collecting and selling personal data.
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So basically making money by ripping off people and spying on them? About what I thought.
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yup, not the same thing. IoT also is known as m2m or machine to machine. it tends to be sensor-based machines sending, then some analysis back-end (server) crunching thru the numbers (recently, realtime processing) and possibly sending back control signals ('turn this thing off', 'lower that value there').
embedded is just a part of that.
(I just got off a gig that was IoT related, fwiw)
Buzzword hegemony (Score:2)
They've created a buzzword so generic that it has already conquered 1/5th of software development. Bravo, pundits! Bravo!
FUCK YOU WHAT THE FUCK IS IOT (Score:5, Insightful)
JESUSFUCKING CHRIST
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use the proper name, at least:
"Jesus H. Vishnu"
damn. some people....
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Relax. Not anything important whatsoever. Just the next hype for the clueless.
Typical bait (Score:2)
Re:FUCK YOU WHAT THE FUCK IS IOT (Score:5, Informative)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iot [lmgtfy.com]
Smart, but if we're going to substitute the jobs of editors with Google then maybe we should go all out. Instead we're paying useless editors who don't actually do their job and circumventing it through a tongue in cheek website that provides you with a Google search.
Also I'm in China you insensitive clod. Can you Bing it for me instead?
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So cute, does your mummy know you use that language?
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Mom: "How the *%*$ did you get an F in vocabulary??!!"
Kid: "How the *%*$ should I know?"
Here we go again. (Score:3, Insightful)
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There's a vague sort of notion about what "IoT" is supposed to be, cobbled together from some mixture of analogies to SCADA and industrial control systems and science fiction; but it is broad and ill formed enough that all sorts of things that can connect to a network
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I suspect that the mania will be tempered by the fact that it will be fairly easy to classify all sorts of projects, that you were already doing, as "IoT" if you wish to seem super cutting edge and so on without actually making any changes.
That was my initial reaction to the "1 in 5" stat: "I guess the definition of IoT now includes all mobile platform development."
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With almost half of all developers thinking of switching to working on the IoT next year ...
No, half of the "developers" said they were working on IoT in a survey they had to complete to get a free magazine subscription. There is no reason whatsoever to believe the results of that survey have any connection to reality, or that the people taking the survey were even developers.
Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things. (Score:4, Insightful)
Here's a list of reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things:
1) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I sleep.
2) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I pee.
3) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I make kaka.
4) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I pleasure myself.
5) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I wash my body in the shower.
6) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I relax in the tub.
7) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I brush my teeth.
8) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I make passionate love to my wife.
9) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I brush my hair.
10) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I read a book.
11) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I read Slashdot.
12) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I bake cake.
13) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I put in my contact lenses.
14) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I get ready to play golf.
15) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I do my laundry.
16) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I think about rugby.
17) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I tie my shoes.
18) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I celebrate the 4th of July.
19) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I water my flowers.
20) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I eat ham.
21) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I use my stapler to staple documents.
22) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I chew bubble gum.
23) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I check the oil in my car.
24) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I look for my TV remote.
25) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I blow my nose.
26) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I rearrange my stamp collection.
27) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I listen to the Backstreet Boys.
28) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I do my calisthenics.
29) Internet of Things devices could watch me while I search for a paper clip.
30) Internet of Things devices could send information about me to advertisers.
31) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I sleep.
32) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I pee.
33) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I make kaka.
34) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I pleasure myself.
35) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I wash my body in the shower.
36) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I relax in the tub.
37) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I brush my teeth.
38) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I make passionate love to my wife.
39) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I brush my hair.
40) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I read a book.
41) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I read Slashdot.
42) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly collected about me while I bake cake.
43) Internet of Things devices could let advertisers use the data unsuspectingly coll
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...or a samsung 'smart' tv.
(from what I've heard. wish this was actually a joke, too)
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...or a samsung 'smart' tv.
(from what I've heard. wish this was actually a joke, too)
'Smart TV' is almost as much as an oxymoron as 'Reality Television'.
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Pretty much all of those apply to a modern cellphone.
A cellphone phone is a thing and it's usually connected to the internet. An internet of things no less.
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Yep, pretty crazy to refuse to leave home without a device that could quickly summon lifesaving personnel in case of an accident, right? Or a tow truck in case of a breakdown. Or a map to help you find your way. Or entertainment in case you're stuck waiting for a half hour before your appointment somewhere. Or a way for anyone to reach you at any time for anything.
Do you know when I finally broke down and bought my first cell phone? My dad and I were driving on a wintery day and saw an accident in fron
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I agree to some extent. The cellphone is the critical part, but the rest of it is definitely a nice bonus. I bought my first smartphone also rather late in the game, a little over two years ago, because my $20 flip phone finally died.
Look at the benefits a powerful mobile computer gives you. It's a built-in navigation computer. You can actually research and look up who you want to call, say, if your car breaks down (better than simply dialing information). If your internet at home goes down, you can na
You Don't Need A Minicomputer... (Score:5, Interesting)
You don't need a minicomputer to call 911. You don't need a minicomputer to text your wife that you're running late. You might be surprised what a smartphone is useful for though.
I've had a smartphone for about six months now, and before that I didn't really think I needed one. Now I know I don't need one, and right now I don't even have cell service, but I have found a number of uses for it anyway. I've used mine as a flashlight, a level, as a compass, and to check my pulse. They make you wish you had a real camera, thus fueling the economy, and they will do in a pinch if you need photographic evidence of something. It makes a great guitar or instrument tuner. It will translate text on a billboard. It saves paper for grocery lists. And there are about a half million things that any networked, powerful computing device would be useful for: games, alarm clock, programming, et cetera.
However, I think I have an even better example. I came home for the holidays to Valdez, Alaska in 2011. As undoubtedly nobody knows, Valdez is by far the snowiest city in America with about 325 inches (8.25 m) of snow in a given year. That year was an extraordinary year for snow. By late January 350 inches lay on the ground, and this in a place where snow showers in May were not unheard of. Boats sank. Buildings collapsed. Everyone who could was shoveling. After the second time I cleared our roof the snow pile reached the second-story windows on every side of the house. This became a slight problem at about the same time when the heating fuel started to get low — the (chest-high) fill pipe for the house was now buried three times its height in snow. You'd think that these sort of permanent-house-features would be easier to find in this sort of situation. I spent about three days digging for the damn thing, but then remembered something a friend had mentioned: the magnetometers in smartphones can be used as metal detectors. I tromped in, borrowed my mom's cell, and found the pipe almost immediately. I'd come within a few inches of it, but then been digging in the wrong direction. It wasn't exactly a life or death situation, but it was pretty dire, and it was pretty much the only tool available that could have helped in that situation.
I get your point that smartphones enable some people to be rather conspicuously vapid, but I'm not sure that they wouldn't be just as irritating with some other toy. I do think it's wrong to disdain the tool because of the users. I'm glad you don't need one. I'm glad I had one when I needed it. I'm pretty okay with having one now, even if I don't use it much. Most especially I'm glad that my mom doesn't live in a place that gets thirty feet of snow in a year. However, if you do happen to visit that terrible place, I highly suggest you bring a smartphone. You never know when it might come in handy.
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Are you saying that every IoT device has a camera? Because I think you're a paranoid loon.
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I kind of understand the hate for advertisers. On the other hand ads pay for a great many of the free services I enjoy so I except that they're not going away. The ads that bug me the most are the ones that don't pertain to me. It's better when the ads do a good job showing me something I care about. Unfortunately it's worst of all when they think they know me but are way off base like Audible that keeps showing me ads for books they know I've listened to. I'd rather they make good suggestions.
Bad Site (Score:5, Informative)
The site requires you to register in order to read their articles. Don't both clicking the link. There's the free text:
By Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld | Jan 28, 2015 9:45 AM PT
One-in-five developers now works on IoT projects
There are signs of explosive growth in Internet of Things development, and savings are being better defined
By 2020, professional kitchens, restaurants and other large food providers will be using appliances with sensors and scanners. They will track inventory and provide real-time ordering linked to pricing. Sensors and cameras will be embedded in ovens, refrigerators and even pans and will do things such as track temperatures and ensure food isn't overcooked or spoiled.
This "connected kitchen," as Gartner imagines and defines it, will contribute in five years at least 15% in savings in the food and beverage industry.
Building a connected kitchen, and all the other things the Internet of Things (IoT) is promising to deliver, will take a lot of development work. There are signs that this development is beginning to happen.
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No, no, no!!! It is so that every movement of the pan can be tracked and all temperatures tracked just in case an employee or customer sues the restaurant. At least, that is what the lawyers and insurers will say.
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Yeah, yeah, I know, at some point the scale and pervasiveness of embedded connectivity may reach a point where it is different in kind, not just degree, from past use; but I submit that we aren't there yet by a nontrivial margin. For the moment, "IOT" seems to mean 'has a terrible smartphone app' or 'last model, y
Working on it right now (Score:4, Funny)
[gsmith@thing1 ~]$ ping thing2
Re:Working on it right now (Score:4, Funny)
that's nothing. I have a bit of the IoG (internet of ghosts) working:
% ping elvis
elvis is alive
see! I told you!!
Yes, the IoT is coming... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, the IoT is coming... as soon as IPv6 is fully deployed with stateless autoconfiguration so we'll have network addresses for all the things.
I hear both Verizon and Comcast are really happy about the idea of offering routable addresses for everyone, without finding some way to monetize it.
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Yes, the IoT is coming... as soon as IPv6 is fully deployed with stateless autoconfiguration so we'll have network addresses for all the things.
I hear both Verizon and Comcast are really happy about the idea of offering routable addresses for everyone, without finding some way to monetize it.
Come now. You know that's not how it's going to work.
The household things will not talk direct to the Internet. They'll connect via NAT to a hub-like base station device you have to buy separately and connect to your broadband router. It will use a proprietary protocol that bears a striking resemblance to something open-source (except with extensions on it) to talk to the devices. You will communicate with the devices via a custom website or smartphone apps. Your access to your devices will be contingent on
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I think you have that wrong. They will connect via an encrypted tunnel over port 443 to an AWS cloud instance to log all your activity and provide an "interface" for you to use anywhere you want. Should you decide not to use that interface, your Thing is a Paperweight. But they might still be able to display advertising on it...
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I have not seen it mentioned here, but there is also EIoT; E is Enterprise. a whole nuther thing. some companies want sensors (think: industry) and they send huge volumes of test data 'upwards'. the trick (from one vendor, at least) is to data-reduce it intelligently and then forward it up toward the root. you don't have to store the data (per se) but by smart filtering, you end up forwarding only 'useful' data and it can be acted on immediately.
so, the consumer end is only a tiny part of it. the real
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
It's an unecesary label for small things (Score:2)
I've worked on 'IoT' but only in the sense that IoT things are assumed to be small and low power, so small, low power designs are needed.
However making something small and low power is also a means of making is embeddable in other ways, such as in many places across a huge chip. The technical problem is the same. The need for small and low power is not IoT. However it is the justification to PHBs for doing what you do even if your primary application is something other than IoT.
In the mega corp I work for,
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IoT, IoT, IoT, IoT.
1 in 5 uses of statistics are b***shit (Score:2, Interesting)
I call shenanigans.
There is no way that 20% of all developers are doing IoT, unless you define IoT to include all mobile app development or any device that has the ability to talk over any kind of comms channel (eg local bluetooth connection from device to diagnostic tool or a wireless keyboard for a tablet etc).
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And we know why Gartner makes up statistics: because real research is hard and doesn't pay well.
Babel of IoT of many things (Score:3)
It's just a pity that all ioT talks different languages. If only there were a secure, simple protocol so that they could talk to each other...
SMNP would have worked, but it completely stupid in its ambition to be a superstandard....
Skipping the acronym, on to the contents... (Score:2)
Yes, TFS should have defined it's acronym. Failing that, the editors could have caught it - typically, they didn't. Irritating.
On to the actual content: 1 in 5 developers are developing software for devices with embedded software that are likely to wind up with their own internet addresses. Given the high quality, secure software we are accustomed to seeing in routers, PCs, servers, etc.. Given the high level of security awareness we see in the developers in this area. I just gave a remedial lesson in SQL i