It’s good that you are keen on building your own IoT platform, or at least you are interested about knowing what it takes to build one. For either reason, it is important to understand what an IoT platform essentially means in the general sense. First, let’s look at what IoT means.
In this chapter, I briefly touch upon IoT’s background and building our own platform in this book. I discuss the following:
The types of IoT platforms
The characteristics of a good IoT platform
Why you should build your own IoT platform
The Background of IoT and Our Focus
The Internet of Things, ...
