This episode is our first about standards, and in this episode we focus on standards shared with the “I” in the Internet of Things.

* IoT standards start with internet and web standards

* Proprietary ecosystems will have an early advantage

* Big companies and standards: “It’s complicated”

* “Standards are like an endlessly-layered cake”

* IP: “Best effort” (a.k.a. unreliable) packet delivery

* TCP: Reliable, ordered and error-checked delivery of info

* UDP: “Spray and pray”

* REST: A de facto standard for talking to services

* How toasters will talk

* Wireless protocols

* Wi-Fi

* Bluetooth

* 4G (and 3G, and 2.5G…)

* Home automation standards

* “The wiggle-waggle dance of honeybees”