* Web technologies (REST, Node, ...) a lot over UDP (e.g. CoAP)
* Embedded Engineering (RF, SoC, HW, etc)
* IPv6, Low power radio networks and WSN's
* Security & Privacy (biggest issue
"You can't know it all" is even more true in IoT IMO, ...
I would add "Edge Device Applications" as a new entrant to the IoT software marketplace as well. Platforms like PTC ThingWorx, GE Predix, MS Azure are essentially becoming app stores for edge industrial devices where developers can create applications for IoT nodes/gateways.
Also ML/analytics are starting to enter the equation as companies try to figure out how to optimize the tons of data that is being pushed through IoT networks, and feed it back down to improve processes.
As an example, the callout at the top says "56.4% of DEVELOPERS are building robotics apps today." (emphasis mine)
But the actual statistic is "Robotics (56.4%), Arts, Entertainment and Recreation (56.3%), and Automotive (52.9%) are the three most popular industries DATA MINING APP DEVELOPERS are focusing on today" (emphasis mine).
These are not the same. At all. Of the remaining callouts, the second fits the data, the third is wrong ("27.4% of all developers are building apps in the cloud today" - no, 27.4% are -planning- to), and the fourth seems to be summarizing something that is not elaborated on anywhere else in the link; the only statistic for machine learning given doesn't even measure how many are being used for development projects (but rather measures, of machine learning projects, what areas are they in).
The bullets themselves leave a lot to be desired, too, and I wish I had access to the original report. They seem to jump between specific kinds of developers, all developers (though, per the tidbit on methodology, all developers here means 'developers actively creating new applications with the latest technologies', which begs clarification as well), and executives ('41% say that cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are very important to their digital strategies.' comes from speaking with 'senior executives at services firms').
If I am not directly involved with big data, and don't care what senior executives think (because I am unconvinced of their ability to determine what their current technological needs are, let alone their future ones), there is very little for me in this, and given the quality of the reporting I'm not sure I want to make decisions based on any of these numbers without seeing the underlying report (though I'm not sure what those decisions would be other than "this seems to be a good area to get into, or not", for my next job).
- Digital Assistants ("Navis") like Siri, Cortana, Google Now with customizable personas and avatars.
- A standard protocol for interfacing "smart" interactive devices like phones and laptops with "dumb" ones like ovens and toasters.
- You indirectly interact with your dumb devices by telling your Navi what you want to do with them.
- ???
- Eventually, semi-autonomous little R2D2s rolling around, projecting holograms of your Navis.
The tl;dr less funny version goes like this: Nobody wants this. Please stop.