IoT As A Service Offers Long-Awaited Tools For IoT Success - IoT Agenda

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IoT As A Service Offers Long-Awaited Tools For
IoT Success - IoT Agenda
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• 2020, the year of a brutal pandemic, has been an
  eye-opener in many ways.
• For one, the COVID-19 crisis has underscored why
  IoT solutions are so crucial to run a modern
  business.
• As enterprises worldwide rebound from lockdowns
  with much lower onsite staff, automation, remote
  monitoring and management, analytics and other
  IoT capabilities assume more importance than ever.

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• And yet, today, many companies are waiting at the
  IoT adoption fence, stuck in the pilot phase, or
  simply struggling to gain control over all the
  moving parts that IoT involves.

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Why many enterprises struggle with IoT
implementation

• Complexity has been the bane of IoT adoption.
• IoT use cases require the interplay of
  sophisticated technologies involving connected
  devices, data and the cloud.
• Multiple layers of technology demand different
  strategies and skillsets for integration,
  operations and maintenance.

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• The disparate layers of hardware and software,
  too many protocols and standards, and cross-layer
  interoperability issues complicate most IoT
  solutions, said Kiran Yeddala, CEO of the IoT
  services company Nivid Technologies.
• Many enterprises lack the in-house expertise to
  manage all of these. Moreover, multiple-point
  solution vendors and large IoT CapEx outlay
  without a clear return on investment make
  enterprises think twice before they adopt IoT.

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What IoT as a service is and isnt

• Over the years, Ive seen the term IoT as a
  service used to mean different things. IoT is a
  well-known enabler of as-a-service business
  models.
• Its not just about responding urgently to the
  disruption facing almost every industry today.
  As a service is increasingly how we like to
  consume things in a flexible way, as much as we
  need on a daily basis, scaling up or down
  according to todays need, said Ericssons
  Customer Success Lead Jeff Travers.

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• The SaaS and PaaS modeled IoT platforms out there
  are not to be confused with IoT-aaS either.
• A Statistica study traced 620 publicly known PaaS
  platforms in 2019, a twofold jump from 2015.
• But the growing number of IoT platforms arent
  necessarily simplifying IoT deployments.

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• These PaaS offerings usually cater to specific
  layers of the IoT stack, such as analytics,
  device onboarding or monitoring, and they work
  with new devices and sensors.
• Lack of support for retrofitted legacy devices
  becomes an issue for brownfield use cases, which
  is common in the industrial sector.

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What to expect from IoT as a service offerings

• Deploying IoT sensors and connected devices.
• Advanced cloud-enabled mobile capabilities for
  sensor placement with predictable connectivity
  expedite the overall deployment process, ensure
  device performance, and minimize post-deployment
  issues and associated troubleshooting perils.
• Centrally manage assets.
• Custom applications, analytics, reports.

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VISIT

• https//nividit.com/