Numerous industry analysts believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) is just about to take off. In fact, IDC says that by 2020 IoT revenues could top $7.1 trillion, and Cisco predicts 50 billion connected devices by then.
To help developers claim their share of the IoT pie, several companies have recently released IoT development kits. These include the following:
- Intel’s Edison development platform
- Intel’s A-Wear SDK
- Broadcom’s WICED Sense development kit
- Qualcomm’s IoT developer kit
- MediaTek’s LinkIt development platform
- LittleBits’ CloudBit module
- Silicon Labs’ environmental and biometric sensing development kits