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Rapid IoT Development to Deployment

Rapid IoT Development to Deployment

Scott Schwalbe, CEO and co-founder of Nimbelink, discusses the IoT development and deployment process with RCR Wireless News Editor Martha DeGrasse during the Enterprise IoT Summit in Austin, Texas. 

“Rapid IoT development to deployment, I’m going to differentiate those a little bit,” Schwalbe said. “If you’re creating an IoT solution, you’re going to have to make a decision if you’re going to build or buy, and I guarantee you do both. How do you think about that?”

He explained critical questions that guide the IoT development process: ownership of underlying intellectual property–“where is your value?”–or a combo of creating and buying IP; time-to-market; in-house expertise covering hardware, software, firmware, connectivity, app developers and other team members.

Schwalbe covers trade-offs based on connectivity schemes and carrier certification and how those two impact a product’s time-to-market.

Regarding more speculative products being developed, Schwalbe said the lack of ability to scale based on consumer-level products like the Raspberry Pi, is a challenge. IoT development boards, Schwalbe said, “are very easy to grab ahold of…being able to just build a quick software development kit. It’s a great baseline platform to get started with so it’s very valuable.”

 

 

 

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Juan Pedro Tomás
Juan Pedro Tomás
Juan Pedro covers Global Carriers and Global Enterprise IoT. Prior to RCR, Juan Pedro worked for Business News Americas, covering telecoms and IT news in the Latin American markets. He also worked for Telecompaper as their Regional Editor for Latin America and Asia/Pacific. Juan Pedro has also contributed to Latin Trade magazine as the publication's correspondent in Argentina and with political risk consultancy firm Exclusive Analysis, writing reports and providing political and economic information from certain Latin American markets. He has a degree in International Relations and a master in Journalism and is married with two kids.