[SIPForum-discussion] Is SIP important to IoT?

[Olle E. Johansson]

> On 11 Jul 2016, at 22:53, Rodrigo Pimenta Carvalho <pimenta at inatel.br> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 2 - Could someone here point some project for IoT that depends on SIP?
> 
> 3 - If SIP is important to IoT, what is the main use of such protocol in ioT in general?
> 
> Any hint will be very helpful!
It all depends on your current definition of IoT and which marketing guy you listen to :-)

In the IETF we have a definition of constrained devices and for those I believe it will be hard to run
any realtime multimedia communication unless all the codecs are handled in hardware.
Battery power is the limiting resource here, CPU power coming as the second factor.

If you discuss IoT as “stuff in the home that connects to the cloud” - it all depends on
a definition of “the cloud”. Again, it depends on which marketing stuff you’ve been reading.

Technologies like SIP and WebRTC has a role in that market, since it’s not really depending
on battery limitations. There are many examples, if you search google for “Tim Panton”
you will find a few very good examples of what Tim is doing with WebRTC data channels.

Good luck in your research!
/O

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