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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So maybe there will be innovation in IoT when spectrum tech catches up a bit?
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The number of embedded devices is already like an order of magnitude higher than human use clients and growing much faster. IoT is a memetically weak frame but what it points to is doing fine. Growing too fast even, security-wise.
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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Interesting... what do you mean by an "embedded device" here? I have like 0 knowledge of this area, so just going off impressions
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