The importance of IoT to the competitiveness of large and small enterprises alike has placed enormous stress on development teams to roll out new products at record pace without incurring cost or scheduling overruns.
Why do IoT product development projects become costly, inefficient and sometimes unsustainable? Some of the reasons are purely technical. In the first place, it’s a challenge to build a prototype. Dealing with interoperability and security issues are significant hurdles. Add into the mix, the issues of scalability and the need for cross-regional deployments, and you can easily see why IoT product development can get messy.
And there’s the human factor: IoT product development requires multiple knowledge domains – sensors, power management, processors, wireless network connectivity, security, embedded software, data analytics, cloud platforms, etc. – to develop a complete IoT product. Few organizations have the in-house talent to bring such a complex IoT product to market.
Reducing IoT product development lead times can be approached in different ways. One way would be build everything from scratch. But there's a growing trend to utilize pre-engineered building blocks – a device-to-cloud framework – to speed up product development.
What do you think is the best way to speed up IoT product Development?
- Build everything from scratch (hardware, software, cloud platform)
- Use a pre-engineered device-to-cloud framework such as the Sierra Wireless mangOH Project
- Or a combination of the above two choices?
What do you think?
Feel free to share your thoughts below in the comments section.
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