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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by batmansmk on Sunday September 03, 2017 @01:15AM (#15159801)
I cannot see any IoT revolution. Let's globally forget about the consumer market, already dead, but focus on the industrial applications.

Going from $10 to $1 a sensor didn't trigger any change. Not surprising when yearly maintenance/battery replacement/shipping/installation/network fee is circa $50/y per sensor and this economics didn't change. Big data didn't change anything, as the cost of storing info was already peanuts before.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by brohee on Sunday September 03, 2017 @09:10AM (#15161246)
There are plenty of sensor without batteries, using e.g. light or vibration to get their energy, of which they need very little...
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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by joezydeco on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:30AM (#15161918)
You still need local collection hubs and network infrastructure to get the data out. The cost of the sensor isn't the issue.
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