IoT Protocol Standardisation
Rajashree Rao
Helping People Transform thro' 'Mythistical Way of Life' Flagship Program (Ancient wisdom with emerging Tech for Modern Living) | Founder CEO - Techutzpah Consulting | MD - Mythistical Foundation
Further to my last article about the various challenges faced by the Internet of Things (IoT) Industry we have to arrive basic consensus with certain critical issues.
First and foremost, we need to address the wireless IoT network protocol issues. There are more than 20 plus IoT network protocols like Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z-Wave, NB-IoT, RFID, WIFI, LoRaWAN, etc. confounding the issues.
The Internet Consortium which is agreeable across the globe represented by various manufacturers of such devices should be formed.
The protocol which is easily implementable across the board should be standardized. Once the industry agrees on this single protocol the OEM/ ODM manufacturers of IoT gateways should immediately shift over to this single protocol.
Once the Industry leaders start to adopt the open source implementations the small time manufacturers would easily find their market. The simplified solution is for the IoT industry to invent an exclusive IoT protocol which will then eliminate the above complexities.
The manufacturers of the end-user IoT devices to then use this exclusive IoT protocol which enables the plug and play type of usability at the device level itself.
This will then enable for the market to grow at a phenomenal pace.
Manhattan Plumbing and Heating
8 å¹´What about this? https://www.threadgroup.org/
I help SME's to grow. Non Exec Director. CSO at Aquamonitrix. Business Development Officer Processplus. SWAN Forum Ambassador. Chairman of SWIG
8 å¹´There's too much money in protocol conversion software, firmware and dongles for there to ever be a universal standard, " he said cynically" ;-)
Managing Director at Digital Water Ltd.
8 å¹´The diversity of protocols reflects the diversity of applications and opportunities created by IOT. One only has to look at the variety of business models to realise there can never be a universal standard. If I post a message to my aunt in Canada, I dont car how the message is delivered as long as she receives and understands the content of the message inside the envelope. The value of communications is in unambiguous semantically precise understanding and value transfer, not how you organise the bits and bytes along the many channels the message flows.
Principal Engineer / Solutions Architect at Modular Electronic Systems, LLC
8 å¹´I agree with some comments already made that choices for the industry is good. That there may be good fits for different verticals, but as a whole, bandwidth requirements and range may dictate a choice that a common version across all things would not satisfy well. I think we can have different technologies and protocols at the thing level as long as the interaction point, often referred to as a gateway, converts the lower levels to the already standardized Internet Protocols, database storage or other accessible means.