[Development] Qt and IoT infographic

[Thiago Macieira]

Re the inforgraphic at
  https://info.qt.io/whitepaper-building-the-internet-of-things
  (not the paper because it's asking information I won't give before I get it)

First of all, I like that Qt Company is taking this seriously. You can improve 
those graphics with target numbers for 2020, which are talking about 200 
billion devices connected (I think the analysis is from Gartner).

My criticism is what I *don't* see in this: local communication. Cloud 
communication *should* be secondary in IoT. In fact, few devices should 
communicate with the Cloud, hopefully only those that have hardened security 
and where the user can control the privacy settings on. In a given smart home, 
you should be able to count how many of those exist in the fingers of one hand.

So where's the information about local network discovery and communication? 
Where's the strategy on common protocols and data models? Publish and 
subscribe of notifications?

Please see this article from Monday that is relevant to this topic:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sonos-accept-new-privacy-policy-speakers-cease-to-function/

See also my comment: https://plus.google.com/+ThiagoMacieira/posts/goErhFrhzoS

The infographic makes a spectacular error in this area. It says "Your data, 
your code, your cloud". Well, no: that's your code and it may be your cloud, 
but it's most definitely not your data. It's someone else's data.

And now you know why I'm working on QtNetwork and want to implement DTLS.

PS: it also says "Artificial Intelligence" in "The Backbone" part. How is that 
relevant to Qt or where is it exposed in Qt?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center