Rapid Prototyping: Why You Want It

Why Rapid Prototyping Puts Your Product Ahead

In today's fast-paced world, speed can be just as important as accuracy for the successful deployment of IoT devices. This is where rapid prototyping services enter the picture. These services are intended to expedite the transition from prototype to production-ready status by employing flexible, time-tested methodologies. They keep development costs and time to a minimum while providing a rigorous test of reliability and integration.

"Measure twice, cut once"

This labor- and cost-saving practice almost always takes the form of prototyping in the IoT industry. IoT prototyping is a technique for taking into account the complexity and unpredictability of real-world implementations and advancing proof of concept (PoC) beyond the conceptual stage—and, of course, bringing it one step closer to the market.? IoT prototyping also gives you the chance to spot opportunities and challenges that you hadn't even considered.

IOT JUMP START- The Digital Audit

Consideration of client needs, inputs, and quickly demonstrates through mockups and wireframes what their solution would look like. In our experience with rapid prototyping, there are at least two major benefits

1. It enables a successful proof of concept (PoC)

A 2017 study from Cisco reported that 60% of IoT projects stall at the PoC stage. PoCs are an important step before a pilot but are tricky in and of themselves to navigate. They require a clear vision of the work to be done as well as space to tweak and test to finally land on a solution that ultimately works.

So as to not go in blind, we have found it immensely important to rapidly prototype our solution before moving forward with a PoC. This allows us to share mockups of our solution with the customer, capture their feedback, and make the necessary adjustments before investing more time and money. It also gives a potential customer the opportunity to visualize and better understand the solution and opt out if it’s not a fit.

2. It’s low risk, high reward

Rapid prototyping doesn’t require expensive hardware, time on site, or extensive buy-in from corporate higher-ups. You’re simply creating a visual draft of the work that could be done for the solution your client needs.

Concept Reply approaches this by having our design team first understand the client's needs and then collaborate with our development team to ensure that everything they dream up can be technically executed from a software perspective. Once those teams align, the design team gets to work on mockups that show what the interface and various features will look like. As a client, you aren’t investing anything more than the cost of this rough draft and your time to discuss whether or not the proposed solution is the right fit.

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

Rapid prototyping allows a provider to better plan for and execute on those often mission-critical details. The process allows for assessment of the relationship and the proposed solution before getting too deeply involved to turn around, protecting both parties from spending too much time or effort in the event things don’t work out. But it also can lead to a highly successful deployment that benefits from extensive forethought and upfront agreement on requirements from all involved.

With rapid prototyping techniques and tools advancing every day, implementing a rapid prototyping process is critical for elegant, efficient, robust, tested, and cost-effective product design. Since your design has gone through many iterations of design, testing, and validation, your team has already identified and fixed flaws that the product may have had. This also allows you to get immediate testing from real users who may use this product and get valuable feedback.

Going to market with a product that has been designed, printed, and iterated multiple times provides you with confidence in the product development team and ensures an end product you can be passionate about. Concept Reply offers a rapid prototype and execution methodology to provide our clients with a quick view of the final solution. It includes an analysis of the needs and solution design. It is then followed by a rapid prototype to test the outcome.

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