RTC@Scale 2024 – an event summary
RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
Read MoreHere's my official opinion: WebRTC & IOT aren't related. Not really.
These two? mix the best on a logo and nowhere else.
I've been noticing recently a lot of discussion around WebRTC and IOT. IOT here stands for Internet of Things and not Interpoerability. I've been thinking about this topic on and off for the last year or so, and my solid opinion is that there's nothing really related between these two.
The main reason for me to take this stance now is several incidents where I've seen the two being placed together:
The critique hasn't been out there to state that this is just trying to hitch on the bandwagon of IOT.
I've seen it in the past in the video market. Green technology? video conferencing. Eyjafjallajökull erupts in Iceland halting all European flights? video conferencing. Travel cost reduction? video conferencing.
For some reason, this type of thinking is now also plaguing WebRTC, where we're trying to stick excuses to using it instead of focusing on benefits.
So here's the problem I have with this approach of fuzing WebRTC and IOT:
IOT is now talked a lot about and it garners huge investments in startups and acquisitions - a lot more than anything in the WebRTC space. It is no wonder that communication vendors are trying to put an IOT sticker on their products. But for me it makes no real sense.
Vidyo touting IOT? Probably just a way to raise yet another 20M USD, after raising more than a 100M USD in the last decade.
@ThingsExpo? Events... attract audience by placing enough buzzwords in headlines.
Vendors? Trying to attract customers.
My suggestion? Say things as they are and don't force yourself on areas you don't really play (or even understand).
WebRTC vendors should stick to improving user experience of communications. There's nothing wrong with doing just this one thing and doing it best.
RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
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