This episode is our first about standards, and in this episode we focus on standards shared with the “I” in the Internet of Things.

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• IoT standards start with internet and web standards
  
• Proprietary ecosystems will have an early advantage
  
• Big companies and standards: “It’s complicated”
  
• “Standards are like an endlessly-layered cake”
  
• IP: “Best effort” (a.k.a. unreliable) packet delivery
  
• TCP: Reliable, ordered and error-checked delivery of info
  
• UDP: “Spray and pray”
  
• REST: A de facto standard for talking to services
  
• How toasters will talk
  
• Wireless protocols
  
• Wi-Fi
  
• Bluetooth
  
• 4G (and 3G, and 2.5G…)
  
• Home automation standards
  
• “The wiggle-waggle dance of honeybees”