IOT: Enhancing Operational Efficiency

The “Internet of Things”, or?IoT ?as it is popularly called, has taken the world by storm.

Everywhere around us, we find ourselves surrounded by IoT devices or sensors.?

From smart wearables, smart cars, smart manufacturing, smart farming, smart shopping, and smart pharmaceuticals to smart cities, it’s IoT all around us.

These physical devices have sensors that send data to a centralized platform. More often than not, they receive instructions based on this data.

The platform also analyzes the data to provide insights to business owners and personalization to customers. Devices can include smartwatches, injectable ID chips in animals, temperature sensors in jet engines, or voice controllers at home. Prominent examples include Google Home and Amazon Echo.

IOT Challenges:-

Finding new strategies and developing code that would help run this huge ecosystem is a big challenge.

As IoT is a mesh of hardware + software + firmware + protocols + operating systems + network, developing test strategies and scenarios is a challenge that wasn’t faced earlier.

IoT is neither software nor hardware. It’s a combination of both, that needs to be tested simultaneously.

With IoT, developing a virtual test lab is not easy. Real-life scenarios are highly scaled-up versions of the in-lab tests, hence the lab results cannot be relied on fully.

The testing process itself needs a change.

All the protocols should be compatible with each other in order for the data to flow smoothly.

Addressing above challenges requires a collaborative effort from industry stakeholders, policymakers, and technology professionals. As technology advances, it's expected that solutions and best practices will continue to evolve to overcome these obstacles.