In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Frédéric Desbiens, IoT and Edge Computing Program Manager at The Eclipse Foundation, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss the latest findings from the 2024 IoT & Embedded Developer Survey Report. The conversation covers the sectors leading the IoT space, such as industrial automation and automotive, trends in sustainability, security, and safety-critical systems, the growing importance of open source, UX design in IoT, industrial IoT protocols and MQTT, and changes in safety certifications.

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About Frédéric Desbiens

Frédéric Desbiens is the IoT and Edge Computing Program Manager at The Eclipse Foundation. His job is to help the community innovate by bringing devices and software together. He pairs his domain knowledge, skills, and experience in open source, IoT, and cloud platforms with social engagement to grow Foundation awareness and commercial adoption. He has held positions at Pivotal Software (contributing to the Cloud Foundry open source BOSH project), Cisco, and Oracle.

Interested in connecting with Frédéric? Reach out on LinkedIn!

About The Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation provides a global community of individuals and organizations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. They host the Eclipse IDE, Adoptium, Software Defined Vehicle, Jakarta EE, and over 420 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, specifications, and frameworks for cloud and embedded applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, open processor designs, and many others. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, The Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit association supported by over 385 members.

Key Questions and Topics from This Episode

(00:48) Introduction to Frédéric Desbiens and The Eclipse Foundation
(01:32) 2024 IoT & Embedded Developer Survey Report
(03:09) Leading sectors in IoT and use cases
(06:57) The shift to IoT solutions
(08:10) Security priorities in IoT
(12:08) Safety-critical systems and certifications
(16:32) UX and UI design in IoT
(19:24) Industrial IoT protocols and MQTT
(21:32) The importance of open source
(24:19) Developer demographics and insights
(26:48) Learn more and follow up