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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
12/23/2016 8:06:41 PM
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Re: IOT customers
As we look to the new year, it seems as if we have to try--right?  As long as we make sure progress is at hand on a consistent basis--isn't that in the end why we are in business for?  Here is another thing, though, that one has to consider--sometimes the "needs" are outweighed by the realities of whether in fact they are worth the effort.    I note this because, for instance, if my local utilities would not have sponsored a smart meter, I would never have forked out $ 200 for the Smart donor for a dubious ROI.

  

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dcawrey
dcawrey
12/23/2016 1:10:04 PM
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Re: Don't fence me in....
@JohnBarnes I totally believe we'll start seeing industry specialization sooner rather than later. 

This happens in other industries as well, where experts develop and end up charging thousands of dollars to companies per hour to come in and fix a very specific problem. 

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JohnBarnes
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12/22/2016 2:45:04 PM
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Re: Don't fence me in....
Ariella, Well, almost every term out there is better defined than "big data." But I foresee that, for example, constant real time performance monitoring, comprehensive consumer behavior databases, ad hoc functional coordination by smart devices, and information sharing between home appliances -- all of which are currently part of IoT -- will probably eventually hive off under their own banners. (Surely with catchier names than those, though). The question is whether anything will remain for IoT to be the name of.

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Ariella
Ariella
12/22/2016 8:47:55 AM
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Re: Don't fence me in....
@JohnBarnes well there's a book opportunity, exploring the rise and fall of tech terms and how words can become obsolete. I'm not sure IoT will disappear, though. It seems that it gets somewhat qualified by those in the industry who point to different needs for its application in public, private, and industrial settings. In fact, I would say that the failure of some companies' attempt to use their own version of the term -- like IoE -- actually can be taken as an indication of IoT's general acceptance in usage. I think it's also a bit less ambiguous than big data. I once spoke with a professor who declared that big data didn't mean what most people thought it did because of the confusion of the data itself and the analytics. 

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JohnBarnes
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12/21/2016 10:23:55 PM
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Re: IOT customers
mhhf1ve,

I wonder if we're at the end of the age of standardization; isn't it increasingly easy to just translate from standard to standard? Emulators keep getting better, format-to-format conversion faster and more flexible, etc. So maybe the real solution is that we'll get the wireless utopia when everything talks to everything -- not because all the gadgets speak one protocol but because each gadget can instantly start speaking any new protocol it encounters.

Call it reverse Babel. You don't need "Esperanto" if you can download fluent Spanish between "buenas" and "dias."

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
12/21/2016 9:53:57 PM
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Re: Don't fence me in....
Ariella,

I think some words are just born too early -- before the concept itself has formed enough to give them any shape or precision. "Data-driven," "devops," and "big data" strike me as being cases of that, along with "IoT."

One result of that historically is that there are historical curiosities in the terminology; we say "spreadsheet" instead of "cellular programming language" because the latter term, coined by the early developers, embraced several other aspects of high-level programming languages, and "app" has largely replaced "program" (and what used to be "programming" is now several different activities).

At a guess, three or four of the major general applications of IoT will gradually get their own standard names as they become the ones used by large numbers of people, and the term IoT will eventually be a quaint bit of the field's past.

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afwriter
afwriter
12/21/2016 9:48:42 PM
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Re: Don't fence me in....
@Ariella, it can definitely lead to some sitcom-esque situations which are not quite as funny in the real world. 

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Ariella
Ariella
12/21/2016 9:56:05 AM
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Re: Don't fence me in....
@afwriter It's a real problem when people use terms to mean different things. And it gets even worse when some people assume that their view is the definitive one, so they don't have to pay attention to what others seem to have in mind when using the same term.

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dcawrey
dcawrey
12/20/2016 6:13:00 PM
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Re: IOT customers
With this "meshing" of networks he's talking about in the article - isn't that what SDN is supposed to be providing as a technology? 

I ask because I don't hear enough about how IoT and SDN fit together - although it would seem they compliment each other. 

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afwriter
afwriter
12/19/2016 11:11:01 PM
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Re: Don't fence me in....
I was just explaining that to someone over the weekend.  We may face a situation where the buzz word gets even more diluted before it gets securley defined. 

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