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A. TamboliBuild Your Own IoT Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8073-7_1

1. So… You Want to Build Your Own!

Anand Tamboli1  
(1)
Sydney, NSW, Australia
 

It’s good that you are keen on building your own IoT platform, or at least you are interested in 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 ...

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