by Steve Hoffenberg, Dan Mandell, Rob Shapiro, and Chris Rommel, July 2020
Inside This Report
VDC Research conducts extensive annual surveys of IoT and embedded engineers. This report highlights some notable
findings and analyzes key trends from the most recent such survey. Topics include hardware selection, open source
operating systems, embedded software stacks, cybersecurity hardware and software, programming languages, and
software development tools. Analysis includes written discussion of segmentation of survey findings by vertical market,
geographic region, organization size, and other factors.