Will the rain fade away the Cloud....

The concept of IoT is catching up fast though it may take some time to speed up its adoption in industries. If it can show real value in short time span, industry will adopt it fast. The apprehension with most industries is the infrastructure which they already have and how to match it with new technologies, which is slowing down its adoption to large extent.
 
However, the concept existed for years and it was there in isolation in some other form in the name of machine automation or operational technologies. What really changed is introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the machines expected to send data to some centralised location for processing along-with other machine data, which will help in decision making or decision automation. But with embedded technologies gaining prominence and improvement in chipset development and manufacturing, the trend is more towards development of intelligent sensors and devices. That means device will collect data and process it with AI within the device itself without sending the data to central location. It makes processing fast, reduces dependences and in turn reliability. Only whatever additional data is required it may pull that data either from nearby devices or from some central location where it is stored. It is the next level of intelligence which will be required to be built to identify the location to pull only relevant data for processing. The devices will be networked and  will decide which data to be pulled from which devices in the network through the next higher level of intelligence.
 
As more devices become intelligent devices with self-processing capabilities, the dependencies on cloud computing are likely to reduce for IoT applications. Only relevant data for historical references might be required to be stored in cloud. So the shift of processing is likely to happen from cloud to device. Devices will talk to other devices nearby or at a distance to directly read relevant data. Depending on technology development  chipsets might develop to store more data and then it is likely even data storage of IoT getting shifted to devices. This however may take some time to mature to that level.
 
But it is clear that devices will become intelligent and are less likely to depend on cloud for processing. The drizzle of IoT has already started; will IoT rain fade away the Cloud?

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