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Why can’t IoT get out of its own way?



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Author’s note: I’m going to preface this article with an important qualifier. I’m incredibly bullish on the potential of technologies that currently fall under the IoT umbrella. I’ve carried IoT in some form as part of my job description for the last 15 years or so. Unfortunately, the term and its many definitions have become so dilute that it’s time we start to consider retiring it entirely. Maybe we should just go back to calling it the internet.

It is a recurring theme across enterprises, whether startups or Fortune 100: IoT is more complicated than we’d hoped. From the early promises of …

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