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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:32:26 +0200
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On 2016-08-10 17:50, Paul Rubin wrote:
> "G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> writes:
 >
>> Witness also the number of people who say "IoT".
>
> Hmm ok, but most of that stuff (report your refrigerator temperature to
> a server once an hour or whatever) is non-realtime and is or should be
> written in scripting languages.

No. Actually time constraint is interchangeable with load. If you have 
many thousands of metering devices, then even if they report once in 5 
minutes, with about 100 variables it does a lot of traffic and load no 
scripting language can handle on either side.

> Admittedly there's some low level
> realtime stuff in the devices too (RF protocols etc), but that part is
> usually done by the hardware manufacturer or some other specialized
> niche programmers.

One of the ideas of IoT (an extremely dangerous one, of course) is to 
build layered controlling systems stretching over a large network of 
individual devices. E.g. a virtual power plant out of a couple a 
households and larger plants out of them and so on.

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