In a report earlier this summer, management research consultancy McKinsey highlighted some speedbumps along the road to an annual $11 trillion dollar forecasted Internet of Things (IoT)
market. Topping their list of hurdles to this data-rich future? We desperately need communications standards so that devices can seamlessly share data. More and more devices and
manufacturers want to capture your data. But few of them are sharing your data, outside of their own purposes. This data selfishness inconveniences consumers and creates a quagmire for software
engineers who want to develop IoT applications without having to wrangle data
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