[nicolsc]

Fully agree: most of the IoT solutions are "unsexy" stuff.

It's often painfully hard to explain that the kickstarter-sexy projects are only the tip of the iceberg.

A BLE "smart" waffle machine would surely be fun, and good material for @internetofshit. But while we're looking at useless/gadgets stuff, there are a LOT of useful (or at least midly interesting) things happening in the IoT.

Unsexy doesn't mean old. And IoT doesn't mean "smart device". A dumb sensor sending raw data can bring in a lot of valuable data.

Metering is still a thing, and i see new projects every week in various fields : agriculture, public equipments, healthcare, safety, ... Lot of independent things that don't need to be used by a user, and that you don't especially know they are "connected"