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The "internet of things" space seems to be doing very poorly, relative to its glory days? IIRC there was a time everyone thought it was the future of the internet. Now every big tech company has smart home stuff and nobody seems to care
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I did a bit of work on radio spectrum allocation in grad school, and there was some hope from regulators that 5G spectrum availability would unlock some disruptive innovation in IoT space. Something about 5G being like "beams" of connectivity between beacons and devices
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I don’t think spectrum is the bottleneck. NFC and WiFi tethering is good enough for most applications, don’t need independent comms. And most routers/endpoints in home/office aren’t maxed out. The bottleneck is probably design and programming.
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