Inside the Internet of Things - Bryon Moyer Blog
[From the last episode: Apple, Amazon, and Google all have smart-home offerings.] There’s another group of prominent companies that may or may not get involved in the IoT: the internet providers (ISPs). From a home standpoint, these are the companies through which you get your internet access. And they have […]
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[From the last episode: Many home IoT systems will employ a hub to connect all the Things.] In order to understand better why some IoT Things work together while others don’t, and why ecosystems form, we need to delve into the notion of abstraction. Let’s start with the dictionary definition, […]
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[From the last episode: There are different levels of “standards,” only one of which is official. There are also alliances; both may come with ecosystems.] Now that we’ve talked about protocols and standards, we can look more specifically at how they relate to the stacks and the notion of interop, […]
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[From the last episode: Protocols can be turned into standards if blessed by an authorized standards body] Let’s say you’ve got some spiffy new IoT communications protocol. If you don’t standardize, then you need to make sure that there are enough people making equipment – stereos and kitchen and laundry […]
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[From the last episode: Protocols are ways of doing things. Electronic protocols let multiple systems agree on how to do something so that they can work together.] Anyone can come up with a protocol and get at least some people to agree to it. As long as everyone that matters […]
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