Internet of Things is technological break through that affects our lives in ways unimaginable before. It has a wide spectrum of application ranging from the Micro to the Macro, from our daily essentials to nuclear reactors and much more. Getting an IoT product out in the market is an extremely task. There are challenges involved are in design of Hardware, Software, Cloud and Analytic’s components.

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Internet Of Things and Open Source

2. I have over 13 years of IT experience
and have worked with Infosys, Nortel,
Avaya and Mobodexter.
My main areas of expertise are
Networking, Router Software, RTOS
and IoT.
Srinidhi Murthy
Technical Architect
MOBODEXTER Inc

3. Introduction
Internet of Things is technological break through that affects our lives in ways
unimaginable before. It has a wide spectrum of application ranging from the
Micro to the Macro, from our daily essentials to nuclear reactors and much
more.
Getting an IoT product out in the market is an extremely task. There are
challenges involved are in design of Hardware, Software, Cloud and Analytic’s
components.
However there are quiet a few common areas amongst all products. The need
for sensors to be connected via wired or wireless mediums to centralized
severs, data collection, interpretation and analysis on the data.
The challenges in each of the components can be overcome by using Open
Source technologies.

4. Open Hardware, Software and Standards
Using tried and tested industrial grade components, sensors, development
boards and commercial friendly open source software licenses for products
saves a lot of over head in development of components and its sub
sequence testing.
It also reduces the time to market of the products as the based Hardware
and software are already available and only custom changes specific to the
product under development needs effort.
Open platforms like the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Beagle Bone enable
developers with limited hardware and low-level software expertise to develop
applications in days rather than months.

5. Open Hardware, Software and Standards
If the correct platforms are chosen, leveraging open source technologies that
communicate with each other can significantly reduce the time and effort to
get prototypes from paper to production.
Working with multiple vendors and platforms, doors are opened for new
innovation. Such partnerships lays the foundation for a new generation of
connected applications that can be developed independently from the
devices on which they will run.
Usage of such components in products changes the mindset of the the key
stake holders in the industry and the reluctance to accept them as standards
is overcome.

6. Ecosystem and support community
Once an open source standards is released, it is almost immediately adapted
by evangelists that are ready to embrace new technology and explore them to
the fullest.
This creates a very large ecosystem of variations of the standards that have
been released and thus create a very large ecosystem.
Such evangelists are also helpful in terms of support and can help in quicker
resolution of issues faced during product development, thus creating a more
robust product and also reducing the time to market of the product.

7. Takeaway
No one knows what the future is for IoT, but committing to a standards and
open source platforms will help drive IoT innovation and bring products to
market faster.
Standards will also ensure technology inter-op and open source platforms
ensure that both hardware and software components can be reused as
product platforms evolve.