Interesting. Nice to find someone who sees the landscape the same way I do. These observations have been in my thoughts for a while, especially the one about the status of opensource in the IoT landscape. Additionally my perspective on an IoT device is that they are essentially devices that are network elements. There is an entire industry that manufacture network elements, (i.e. cisco, ericsson, endace) and over the years they have developed a common set of knowledge about how their devices should be managed and operated within an enterprise network. However this common knowledge has translated into independent propriety software platforms created by each company to that allows their customers to manage the network elements they sell. This knowledge is valuable and should be applied to IoT devices as well, because they are essentially network elements. Although I haven’t been able to evaluate all of the IoT platform vendors APIs, from the ones I’ve seen, they seem to be missing the code that allows one to treat an IoT device as a managed network element. Maybe it’s because the IoT platform vendors don’t see this as important or they overlooked it, or they possibly don’t see an IoT device as being as ‘heavy’ as an Ericsson cluster or a Cisco router, and as a result not warrantying the extra software infrastructure. I’m not sure. With regard to the open source aspect of this, this is something that I’ve started working on, since I think there is a gap there…although I’ve barely started so not much to show yet.