Criticism and controversies

Platform fragmentation
A situation where the variety of IoT devices, in terms of both hardware variations and differences in
the software running on them.

Privacy, autonomy, and control

The Internet of things offers immense potential for empowering citizens, making government
transparent, and broadening information access.

Data storage
A challenge for producers of IoT applications is to clean, process and interpret the vast amount of data
which is gathered by the sensors.

Security
Concerns have been raised that the IoT is being developed rapidly without appropriate consideration
of the profound security challenges involved and the regulatory changes that might be necessary.

Safety
IoT systems are typically controlled by event-driven smart apps that take as input either sensed data,
user inputs.

Design
Given widespread recognition of the evolving nature of the design and management of the Internet of
things, sustainable and secure deployment

Environmental sustainability impact

A concern regarding Internet-of-things technologies pertains to the environmental impacts of the
manufacture, use, and eventual disposal of all these semiconductor-rich devices.

Intentional obsolescence of devices

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has raised concerns that companies can use the technologies
necessary to support connected devices to intentionally disable.
Confusing terminology
The lack of clear terminology is not "useful from a practical point of view" and a "source of confusion
for the end user"