Re:The Tech Bubble Didn’t Burst This Year
by noobiemcfoob on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:40AM
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+1
Industrial grade IoT is an odd patchwork of devices all over the spectrum. Practically all of them exist in walled gardens if they're publicly accessible at all.
There isn't a big, cohesive IoT project that is solving all the problems. That's largely because people are still feeling out what is and isn't useful with these platforms. Don't mistake that for it not happening at scale.
/Averaged about 20 deployed devices per week since July
But this is extra stupid, because "industrial automation" (which is what we used to call it) has been a huge business for decades.
There's a lot more than traditional industrial automation going on though. Yes, a lot of today's IoT is "stuff we've been doing for a while" under a new name. But there's also a level of instrumentation, real-time control, and analytics that goes significantly beyond "tell me if this process is drifting."
There's a huge amount of IoT happening in the industrial sector. For example, I just listened to a presentation about how container delivery and loading is being optimized in Hamburg using various sensors and command/control systems. It's just the consumer stuff that's mostly solutions in search of a problem.
I almost wish we had a different name for consumer and industrial IoT. Most of the consumer stuff is silly and ends of derailing so many IoT conversations.