Of the 4.5 million people identified as IoT developers in 2015, 1.4 million were focused on smart home apps a recent report by VisionMobile says. The report identifies seven distinct IoT app development themes; smart home, retail, industrial, wearables, smart city, medical and the connected car. It shows the smart home as the most popular with developers. The average person is becoming more used to the concept of IoT. New research by Gartner suggests that there could be as many as 700 million smart homes by 2020. However, even though an increasing number of app developers have chosen the smart home route, these apps remain at the bottom of the IoT maturity scale. VisionMobile’s research reveals that the majority of developers working with smart home apps are hobbyists; either tech professionals playing in their free time or amateurs developers learning at home. In fact, as much as 70% of the total 4.5 million app developers […]
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