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The Eclipse Foundation announced results from its 2021 IoT & Edge Developer Survey. Administered by the Eclipse IoT Working Group, the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group, and the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, the survey provides essential insights into IoT and edge computing industry landscapes, the challenges developers are facing, and the opportunities for enterprise stakeholders in the IoT & edge open source ecosystem. The survey is now in its seventh year.
The online survey was conducted over a period of seven weeks (Aug 26, 2021 - October 12, 2021) during which time 662 global developers, committers, architects, and decision-makers from a broad set of industries and organizations participated. Key findings include:
- Industrial automation has displaced smart agriculture as the leading vertical industry for IoT and edge computing technologies
- Security (46%), connectivity (38%) and deployment (31%) are the top three concerns for IoT developers
- C and C++ are the most widely used programming languages for constrained devices. Developers prefer Python over Java for edge servers, IoT & edge gateways, and cloud platform development
- Artificial Intelligence (21%) remains the top edge computing workload, unchanged from 2020. However, the number of workloads diversified significantly.
- The IoT middleware market is dominated by AWS IoT (37%), Microsoft Azure IoT (27%), and Google Cloud IoT Platform (22%)
- Message Broker-MQTT (44%) is the top technology used in messaging infrastructure
The survey data also contains details around edge computing workloads, developer concerns, and breakdowns by market. The entire report and its insights can be downloaded here.
To learn more about how to get involved with Eclipse IoT, Edge Native, Sparkplug or other working groups at the Eclipse Foundation, visit the Foundation’s membership page. Working group members benefit from a broad range of services, including exclusive access to detailed industry research findings, marketing assistance, and expert open source governance.