IOT (internet of things) is a real game changer. IOT has changed the lives of people with its continuous evolution of technology. The web is used by companies to extend their geographical limits. To let the clients utilize e-services and products of the company, every organization there is working hard to create a mark in the cyberspace.

Websites are designed in such a way that customers can buy products as per their ease.

IOT is playing a major role in taking E-commerce to a successive level. Today in this handy guide, we are going to discuss how IOT is changing web development in detail.

Features of IOT to change the Web Development Techniques

We are going to share some features of IOT which is change the Web development Techniques and reach the next level of web development. IOT is the Futures of Web development and design.

1). the Place for Web Development in IOT

Let’s now carefully understand how web development and IOT are related. The connected device’s network relies on the web server, as we all know. The communication between devices is done by advanced messaging protocols and the data obtained from sensors is stored in the cloud.

IOT can even display website content. It can display such as UIs on TVs, laptops, wearable’s, smart appliances, and industrial monitors. Both web development, as well as design, is a crucial part of IOT projects and the recent example is Amazon’s Echo with its virtual assistant Alexa.

2). IOT Development Differs from Ordinary Web Development:

IOT is very vast and complex than a regular web application. It not only deals with a vast amount of data but also intense communications, dynamic user interfaces, and security and reliability issues.

3). Collecting High Volumes of Data

Let’s have a look at the peculiarities of IOT system. IOT works with a huge amount of data. They transmit data to and from the cloud after collecting the real-time data from sensors, filter them and thus process them.

It causes a delay in the network. But losing any bit of data is highly unacceptable. This is the reason why IOT web development in comparison to ordinary web development focuses more on the system’s scalability and reliability than ordinary web development.

Why scalability and reliability?

Scalability ensures the collection and distribution of data doesn’t depend on the data volume and reliability ensures data collection and distribution happen without interruption.

To justify scalable applications, IOT developers use languages and solutions such as Java, C, and JavaScript. Appropriate data transfer protocols are there to transmit loads of data without any hamper.

The two common protocols are as follows:

• XMPP: for real-time communication
• AMQP: for message-oriented data receiving/sending

Do you know?

The importance of IOT solutions is stated reliable and scalable by 51 percent of software developers according to the RTInsights’ survey.

This feature is what makes it different from conventional application development. IOT is designed with minimization of power use in mind. Why so? Because communications in IOT networks usually consume a lot of energy.

4). Dynamic User Interfaces

IOT display lots of analytics and infographics because it deals with a huge amount of data. Along with it, it manages the entire network as well. Dynamic UIs is helpful in order of multi-tasking. How they did so?

IOT allows generating portlets or pages dynamically! It makes the work done easily even when there is a lot of data left to be managed.

5). Advanced Security:

Security is something which can’t be overlooked. It is an important aspect in web development but is far complex and crucial in IOT. To keep the data safe and secure, it is important that smart devices should be secured from outside intervention.

Security is the major challenge of IOT growth according to McKinsey.  Advanced user authentication and user access management are the two methods IOT developers take into use to ensure access security.

6). Current Trends in IOT Web Development:

Java, C, and JavaScript are the top 3 languages for building IOT solutions according to the IOT developer 2018 survey. JavaScript hold a special place in IOT development for a long time as 95% of all websites are built on JavaScript (Clearly it dominates web).

Johnny-five.io, Zetta.js, Cylon.js, and Nodered are other frameworks used by IOT developers from a long time apart from Node.js.

7). JavaScript for Real-Time IOT Applications:

JavaScript is used basically for frontend development. The two libraries used to develop real-time applications are JQuery and Socket.IO.

It is also used with a polling technique, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to constantly update information on the web page. In addition to it, it is used as a server-side programming language with varieties of JQuery plug-in modules that are on the market to develop responsive web pages.

It will not be false to say that IOT is a real game-changer. The rapidly growing technology affects the consumers as well as the IOT solution providers equally. Many experienced web developers have observed that the Complex IOT networks set many different types of challenges for them both in back and front ends. In the software development and web development industry, IOT has brought many major changes to a great extent. I hope you now understand how IOT Systems take Web Development to a whole new height.

Time to sum up:

I hope today’s article helped you learn about the impact of IOT on the web development process. In case if still there is doubt popping up your head, feel free to comment in the comment section below. We are always there to help you out. We will get back to you soon!