With new ideas, new technologies and new smart products emerging every year, one big challenge for devices in the Internet of Things remains: How can we make them understand each other? A huge number of manufacturers and products using different protocols plus a wide range of platforms with non-interoperable networking technologies are making the IoT too complicated to handle.
Asked if it’s better to go for a cloud- or rather an edge-based IoT solution, the answer is, as so often in life: It depends. But lets take a step back first and define what we mean when talking about cloud, edge or fog computing.
Whenever you attend IoT events these days, there’s one question that is always debated intensively. Do we really need a common standard for the Internet of Things, or are we fine with what we have? While some say we have already got what we need and the rest can be done with gateways, others passionately advocate for horizontal standardization. At the annual M2M Summit of the German based M2M Alliance in Düsseldorf, the discussion continued.
Everyone’s heard the buzzwords – IoT, smart devices, Industry 4.0 and the many others. However, when you ask what people mean by IoT, you’re likely to get vastly different answers. Why is this? One reason may be that whilst IoT […]
