Beyond the Next 700 IoT Platforms

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) brings us connected devices that are an integral part of the physical world. Everyday devices and things will have considerable computing and communication capabilities, and will turn the real world programmable in a very literal sense. The dawn of the Programmable World poses significant challenges above and beyond data acquisition, analytics and other common research topics in the IoT area. In this paper we take a look at the software development issues associated with the Programmable World, highlighting technical topics that deserve developer education and deeper investigation by the research community.