First we must accommodate multiple standards
Mark Lee, chief commercial officer, Intamac
Standards are of course important, but it will take some time yet for standards to be universally adopted or any single/set of standards to become ubiquitous - if ever. In the meantime, which may well be a very long time solutions need to be deployed, services offered and real world problems solved. This requires support for and accommodation of multiple standards/protocols and technology. The trick (at least for now) is to abstract this complexity away from the user/UX.. Security is at least as important to deal with however...
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Standards will evolve
Hugo Fiennes, co-founder & CEO, Electric Imp
In my opinion, the IoT standard of the future - and it could be 5 or 10 years away - will evolve out of many simple, workable “atoms” that address different aspects of the problems like accessibility, authorisation and control, and that are simple enough to “just work”. Large vendors bursting onto the scene with a fully formed opinion of how every aspect of interoperability should work are going to have a hard time convincing a critical mass of vendors.
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Standards for interoperability but not security?
David Dunn, CEO, Sunderland Software City
Interoperability will drive use across the whole IoT network/system. Security will be driven by manufacturers proving their platform/hardware is safe to use. Given this I’d vote for standards on interoperability and leave security to be a market led USP.
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The government plays a role
Maria Hernandez, Internet of Everything sales lead, Cisco UK & Ireland
The role of government is very important in driving IoT forward. This role was acknowledged by Sir Mark Walport in his assessment of the Internet of Things. A key area would be in driving innovation by funding early trials and proof of concepts of new technologies and business models when keeping open standards/interoperability at the center in order to look for replicability.
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Education is key to ensuring the potential of the internet of things
Anna Guest, director of training services, 5i
A major piece of gaining real global scale is communication about real use cases and benefits. Specific applications that demonstrate real value to businesses or consumers - and which people are quickly able to understand and use – will gain adoption much quicker than those that don’t clearly show a benefit.
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How to stop tech firms from creating closed IoT ecosystems
Richard Parker, Founder & CEO, Altitude Angel
Big Tech firms will probably focus towards proprietary mechanisms for storing and visualising data first, but we need to remember that these Big Tech firms want people to use their data. Locking it all away in a proprietary format that nobody else understands would be counter-intuitive, as would be any proprietary access mechanisms that require complex implementation or even licensing.
The winners in IoT will be those who empower anyone (single individual through to multi-billion dollar companies) to get insight from data, without a huge learning and thus adoption curve.
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UX and privacy are key to consumers
Vlad Trifa, co-founder and VP of research and development, EVRYTHNG
When you’re talking about consumer products, the experience and privacy is often more important than anything else. For industrial scenarios, reliability and the ability to define “formally” how a process works is more important than ease of development.
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