{"id":7153,"date":"2014-11-24T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:44:44","slug":"iot-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2014\/11\/24\/iot-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"IoT revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet of Things [IoT] is a topic that appears in almost every news story or article in the world of embedded software right now. And it goes far beyond our immediate business &#8211; right across the electronics industry &#8211; as it is very much an encapsulation of hardware and software technologies. I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/the-internet-or-not-of-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about IoT<\/a> on this blog recently and someone suggested that I was rather dismissive of the whole IoT concept. That was not really the case &#8211; I am excited about IoT, but realistic at the same time &#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My key point was that IoT is essentially a fashion at this time. That is not to say that it is not an important concept. My concern is that many people see IoT as a total game changer. It is not a revolution; it is healthy evolution, which is nevertheless very exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I also mentioned that many devices are being described as &#8220;IoT&#8221;, when that is not a strictly accurate statement, as they are not really Internet-connected. My view is borne out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semiwiki.com\/forum\/content\/4033-you-smarcot-iot.html%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had the honor of presenting a keynote at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.design-reuse.com\/ipsoc2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IP-SOC Conference<\/a> in Grenoble, France, where I considered what IoT is all about. You can watch\/hear my presentation here:<\/p>\n<p>If you would like a copy of my slides, please <a href=\"mailto:colin_walls@mentor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that IoT is an exciting concept, which brings together many embedded software technologies and promises to yield some very interesting products. It may not be a ground breaking technology in itself, however, if the concept is a stimulus to creativity and innovation, I will be the last to stand in the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet of Things [IoT] is a topic that appears in almost every news story or article in the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,542,441],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-embedded-software","tag-iot","tag-ip-soc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}