The IoT industry is slowly but steadily moving from a world of siloed, proprietary solutions, to embracing more and more open standards and open source technologies.
What’s more, the open source projects for IoT are becoming more and more integrated, and you can now find one-stop-shop open source solutions for things like programming your IoT micro controller, or deploying a scalable IoT broker in a cloud environment.
Here are the Top 5 Open Source IoT projects that you should really be watching this year.
#1 – The Things Network
LP-WAN technologies are going to be a hot topic for 2016. It's unclear who will win, but the availability of an open-source ecosystem around those is going to be key. The Things Network is a crowdsourced world-wide community for bringin LoRaWAN to the masses. Most of their backend is open-source and on Github.
The thing is, there really is a lot of cool stuff happening right now, and I think 2016 will be exciting to watch for Eclipse IoT. In particular, we're moving to the cloud, and projects like 
What about you? What are the projects you think are going to make a difference in the months to come?
In case you missed it, the upcoming IoT Summit, co-located with EclipseCon North America, is a great opportunity for you to learn about some of the projects mentioned above, so make sure to check it out!
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