Visiting technology conferences for
last few month I discover the new buzz word IoT
Basically, nothing new versus M2M, but
one aspect I found interesting – it is the SCALE.
So, from what IoT stands for? The first
letter “I” has prematurely association to “Internet” with the
main meaning of connectivity over IPv6. The involvement of IPv6 came
just from the size of the problem. If we'll look deeply in the
applicability of IPv6 we quickly found that it will not work. One
exception that IPv6 has a technical possibility to enumerate all
sensors, but immediately after that point all advantages of IPv6 are
ended and many troubles arise. That's why smart people associated “I”
with “Intelligence”. They do not bind any current technology the
the buzz word, so they have a freedom to elaborate on “Intelligence
of Things”, but really smart people do not stop, they expand to the
“IoE” buzz word, “Internet of Everything” or “Intelligence
of Everything”... Who knows? It sounds just right!
So, three big problem are coming in the
scale and complexity bigger than we've dealt with anything before:
- Connectivity to sensors and data transfer to and from Things/Everything
- Trust, not a security which is just a technology, but Trust which is the fundamental aspect
- Data Analytics or The Big Data
All current players are identify
themselves with these areas
- Freescale, Qualcom, TI and others jump in the cosmos of sensors. They all see the great volume in the shipment of devices.
- Intel & Cisco to the IoT gateways or the checkpoint devices to establish Trust and Security between sensors and cloud.
- IBM proclaimed itself the King of Data Analytics. Most likely GOOGLE or ORACLE will challenge IBM's statement very soon.
Well, for me it seems no one exactly
knows what to do, instead (as usually) everyone wants promote the
exiting product and/or indicate their position on the coming market.
I see it bit differently, I think we
have to develop all new technologies almost from scratch and address
all new aspects of IoT/IoE in the design, just because the
stretching of old technologies to the new requirements works rarely
and we all learned this fact many many times.
So, what to do? Unfortunately
the margin in this post
is too
small for the explanation and details...
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