Embarcadero Technologies, the leading provider of developer tools for application and database professionals, announced the latest release of their Appmethod for developers along with a new Internet-of-Things (IoT) survey.

Companies are investing heavily in infrastructure to support a new breed of interconnected apps. In the past, mobile solutions tended to be rather isolated. Today, application developers are increasingly being challenged to extend their mobile solutions to communicate with other “things” such as printers, kiosks, turnstiles, and sensors.

Internet of Things developer survey

Embarcadero fielded IoT developer survey in August 2014 to find how IoT is impacting application development plans for developers. According to the survey, nearly one third (31 percent) of developer respondents that they are already working on IoT apps, while 88 percent who have not started are planning to start IoT development in next 18 months.

As many as 68 percent of developers plan on spending more time on building IoT apps within a year, while 79 percent noted that the tools should be multi-device and IoT platform development tools.

Moreover, Android leads the IoT platform when it comes to building apps as 87 percent of developers support the Google platform. In terms of challenges, IoT developers find Security (44 percent), Privacy (31 percent), and Authentication/Authorization (27 percent) are the biggest constraints.

Software Developers are key

The needed IoT technologies is now converging with cloud, Big Data, embedded systems, real-time event processing, and even cognitive computing–with all these technologies combining to change the face of the technological landscape we live in, and developers are leading the way.

Microsoft recently signed on with the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an association formed by AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel to collaborate with one another. Similarly, AllSeen Alliance is backed by the Linux Foundation and by Qualcomm’s AllJoyn open source device detection technology. The alliance includes consumer electronics manufacturers, home appliance vendors, automobile makers, cloud providers, enterprise technology companies, startups, chipset manufacturers, service providers, retailers and software developers.

Infoblox recently conducted a IoT survey and found that enterprises are willing to embrace the Internet of Things, but deployment is being held back by network capacity worries and security concerns. While most IT professionals believe there’s a potentially lucrative market in IoT, the big worry is that organizations lack the network capacity to deal with demand.

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