Harbor Research has published a white paper The Future of Open Data in Smart Cities. It does not put the giants of IT in pole position to capitalise. The title does not really do justice the contents: the paper argues that the complexities of advanced smart city applications will require new data architectures and drive the […]
Harbor Research undermines IoT platforms
Harbor Research has launched a blistering condemnation of today’s IoT platforms, branding them “a kludgy collection of yesterday’s technology and architectures that do not address the most basic development challenges.” It has dismissed the “fantastic IoT marketing stories [from platform vendors] about what their solutions can do,” as misrepresentations of a “fragmented collection of incomplete platforms, […]