Vision Mobile's latest State of the Developer Nation Report notes a new phase in the IoT market and the maturity of the developers who are engaged in it.

In its publication IoT Developer Segmentation 2016 published in June, Vision Mobile reported that 63% of its sample of IoT developers in its survey conducted in October-November 2015 were motivated by self-improvement. 

The chart below shows how respondents were distributed over the following eight groups which Vision Mobile uses to characterize IoT developers:

Now we have the results of the survey conducted in April-May 2016, a key finding of which is:

The wave of IoT newcomers is coming to an end.
Throughout 2015 roughly half of the IoT developer
population were newbies – 57% in our Q2 2015 survey, and
47% in Q4 2015 had less than an a year of experience, that proportion dropped to 22% in Q2 2016.

One effect of this increasing maturity is that developers are more likely to target a specific vertical market. According to the June 2016 IoT Developer Segmentation report after two or three years in the field only a small number of developers remain non-committed and this is reflected in the Q2 2016 results which shows in a big drop of non-committed developers - falling from 24% to 18% over the course of a year as shown in this chart:

Vision Mobile's comment is:

Smart Home is not just the biggest IoT vertical in terms of developer interest, with 48% targeting it, but also the fastest growing – up 6 percentage points in the last year.

As we reported last October, Smart Home was already established as the most popular choice of vertical target but was followed in Q2 2015 by Retail. In Q4 2014 Wearables became the runner up choice and while its popularity has dipped a little in percentage terms it persists as the second most popular.

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