[SIPForum-discussion] Is SIP important to IoT?

[Dale R. Worley]

Rodrigo Pimenta Carvalho <pimenta at inatel.br> writes:
> I'm starting to study about Internet of Things and how SIP relates to
> it. So, I have some beginner questions:
>
> 1 - How much does SIP matter to IoT? That is, can I say that SIP is
> very important to IoT because many communications on this "new"
> Internet will use such protocol?

My estimation is that the answer is "no".  SIP is very useful when
humans are communicating to humans using audio, video, and other media
streams.  But IoT environments tend to involve transmitting much smaller
amounts of data that is much more carefully encoded, between automated
devices.

Dale