Jonathan’s blog – the future

Upcoming posts

In future posts, I’m going to look at many of the lessons we’ve learned about IoT, including (but not limited to, and not necessarily in this order):

1. How to set project objectives: what question are you trying to answer?
2. A model for the IoT implementation stack, which will help to show (among other things) why it’s so hard to get a solution implemented at scale
3. Why smart cities are such a challenge
4. Technology design ethos – open vs closed
5. Sensor selection / sensitivity
6. Industrial design
7. Electronics design
8. Sensor estate management
9. Automated service and preventative maintenance
10. Data and platform algorithms
11. Problems with comms and the data networks
12. Firmware and the difficulty of recognising all boundary conditions
13. Testing / calibration processes and challenges
14. Data reliability & provenance
15. Hardware problems – RF/comms & noise
16. Security (or why some people have too much time on their hands)
17. Data visualisation
18. Site selection, challenges
19. Political considerations
20. Does citizen science work?