>Home IoT might be crap, but it really has a place in manufacturing and monitoring.
What will IoT will bring to manufacturing that hasn't already existed for the past few decades? I started my career in manufacturing at a pretty large company around 2010, and quite literally every process was being monitored over a network. I worked with a framework called XMII (formerly Lighthammer[1]) that integrated with SAP and allowed us to read from various sensors collecting data on manufacturing lines and built dashboards for monitoring.
As I understand it, the difficulty with IoT is it tries to combine together millions of small markets into one big one. But you compete with specialized products designed with expertise in those niches, or else you're trying to sell general technologies to specialists who have no idea how to use them. I think the consensus is largely that IoT hasn't overcome this yet. Aren't they trying to rebrand it with new names now?
Not that we aren't still quite far away making it all fully working and secure...