#3: Core IoT Standards Overview

This episode is our first about standards, and in this episode we focus on standards shared with the “I” in the Internet of Things.

* IoT standards start with internet and web standards
* Proprietary ecosystems will have an early advantage
* Big companies and standards: “It’s complicated”
* “Standards are like an endlessly-layered cake”
* IP: “Best effort” (a.k.a. unreliable) packet delivery
* TCP: Reliable, ordered and error-checked delivery of info
* UDP: “Spray and pray”
* REST: A de facto standard for talking to services
* How toasters will talk
* Wireless protocols
* Wi-Fi
* Bluetooth
* 4G (and 3G, and 2.5G…)
* Home automation standards
* “The wiggle-waggle dance of honeybees”