IDG Contributor Network: IoT's interoperability challenge

IoT promises to improve daily life in a number of ways. Interconnectivity between devices enables increased productivity at home or within industrial settings. This interconnectivity comes at a price, as the popularity increases and the number of devices and networks expands, the lack of interoperability between them becomes an issue.The primary problem is that there are too many players in the game. Technology companies are developing solutions independently of each other, utilizing different p