The State of IoT Development

A Conversation with Frédéric Desbiens from The Eclipse Foundation

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IoT For All
December 17, 2024

Hello listeners!

On this week’s podcast, Ryan Chacon speaks with Frédéric Desbiens, IoT and Edge Computing Program Manager at The Eclipse Foundation, about the latest findings from the 2024 IoT & Embedded Developer Survey Report. The conversation covers the sectors leading the IoT space, trends in sustainability, security, and safety-critical systems, the growing importance of open source, UX design in IoT, industrial IoT protocols and MQTT, and the changing landscape of safety certification.

The Importance of Open Source

Meet 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.

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. Based in Brussels, The Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit supported by over 385 members.