Before you invest in an IoT Platform, unpack it first, have a full understanding of what IoT Platform is, its functions, and how such a platform will support your business intent.
If,
the characteristics of IoT include intelligent data sources, data collection, connectivity for forwarding data and device interactions, processing of data (analytics, visualization, reporting), and decision making.
And
the technologies that support the realization of IoT include: connectivity, mobility, data management, cloud (data ingestion), analytics (pruning, analysis, stream analytics, machine learning and decision making), security, and interoperability.
Then
the intent of an IoT platform is to provide a bundle of common, compatible, extendible, and ready-to-use components (i.e., hardware, software, computing, and services) that solves a common set of challenges. As a result, promoting rapid roll out of scalable, available, reliable, stable, and secure IoT apps, products, solutions, and services.
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