IoT platforms: How they work and how to choose one
When leading-edge organizations first started to scale their IoT initiatives, some developed and deployed their own code to manage the endpoint devices and generate data as it moved from device to cloud.
That software work often took months to complete. Now, organizations can use IoT
platforms from Microsoft, AWS, Google and other vendors instead of building their own,
giving enterprise IoT engineers the ability to stand up the technology in mere days.
These platforms provide secure, resilient and flexible connections to endpoint devices and deliver a range of management capabilities that simplify and streamline IoT deployments.
“It’s an aggregation point for unattended devices to connect and be managed,” explained Brad Cole, director of engineering at Digi International, an IoT tech organization. “A [platform] provides a common way of communicating with all the IoT devices and a common way for the devices to send data that can then be distributed through the ecosystem.”