IoT Device Management: Custom Approach

The expected number of IoT devices in 2020 is 31 billion that emphasizes the importance of device management for global market development.

Device management definition embraces processes and tooling required for its execution that ensures IoT architecture stability, scalability, and security during the whole lifecycle.

Whether it’s implemented as a separate device management API or solution or one of the modules of an end-to-end IoT platform it should be able to constantly track, control and configure the performance of each hardware component.

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Despite that, the market offers diverse solutions including from the scope titans like Bosch, IBM and AWS their platforms not necessarily will meet your current requirements budget or feature-wise. Taking into account that is an absolute must-have before making compromises you should consider from-scratch implementation.

Clearly, requesting custom development puts an additional burden on the responsible for IoT system deployment and the company in general. However, if you find a right tech partner it’ll be able to ease the preparation and creation processes. Guiding through the specifics and ensuring that the cooperation result will be compatible with your company goals and the scope of application is the mark of a reliable solution provider.

Nevertheless, before reaching out to your network for required services you should have at least the solution basics figured out. Reviewing the best practices you can outline the desired functionality and other solution specifics based on the system operating environment and IoT system features.

Whether it’s going to be a module of an IoT platform or a separate product the initial list of factors to define to meet device management requirements should include:

Devices

Itemize what types of devices (with complex data models, constrained, etc.) and in particular hardware, sensors and gateways complete the ecosystem.

Connection

Specify via what protocols the internal system communication runs to ensure that the solution can use appropriate standards to connect with each device at any time for any of the outlined purposes.

Scalability

Provide not only current system topology and involved elements but also outline possible future changes especially if your goal is a solution with a narrow application focus.

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