Day: March 14, 2016

This is simple. Every protocol that is entering the scene today is dubbed an IoT protocol. Hmmm… are they really… or are they transport mechanisms (which we already have plenty of) or is they just useless vertical solutions (well not useless for the company who made it).  And hey… it does not have anything to do with Internet or wireless. It’s about connecting things.

So

1.) Does the protocol connect things together? If so, item under test is a candidate for an IoT protocol.

2.) Ask ten people in ten different areas of the earth without contact with each other to send a measurement of there current temperature over the protocol. If the receiver on the other end know what he/she receives from all ten the protocol  is a candidate for an IoT protocol.

3.) Ask the ten people to send an ON command and then an OFF command to turn on/off a lamp at the receiving end.  If all actually does this the protocol is a candidate for an  IoT protocol.

So 1+2+3 and success on all, yes and hurray, it’s an Iot protocol. If not it may still be a useful protocol  for other things.

Åke Hedman
Paradise of the Frog AB