Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

Why do we use I-IoT commercial platforms?

Why should we use commercial IoT platforms? Why we should use the cloud? The answer is clear—IoT commercial platforms are cost-effective and mature platforms which provide excellent levels of productivity, fast development, automatic deployment (DevOps), reliability, and global scalability.

However, why might we avoid using commercial IoT platforms and the cloud? This might be the case if we need a high level of data protection and control of exports, if we need high flexibility for custom integration and proprietary protocols, or if we would like to avoid dependencies to a specific vendor.

All these issues can be mitigated or solved, but the choice to adopt a particular platform depends on several ...