The Internet of Things is real and growing, but the money will come neither from Internet nor the Things. Instead, the big money will derive from business services that pull data from those IoT networks.
Unfortunately, a lack of standards threatens to slow the market's maturation as vendors are forced to build the devices, sensor networks and services that run on top of them.
While Internet of Things' big money will go to platform services, there's a massive market awaiting those who can analyze IoT's messy data.
In fact, there is already a simple solution for lack of standards for sensors: "gateway services".
Low powered devices do not need to use TCP/IP to be able to participate to IoT. Using proprietary, efficient and preferably secure internal protocols is fine, as long as there are "data gateways" that convert those data and connect to standardized "message queue / bus" cloud services. In fact that what Microsoft and others are already building...
Clemens Vasters - “Service Assisted Communication” for Connected Devices
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