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Therefore, make sure to assess the change management eorts of the organization with a

serious perspective and utilize the agile methodologies.

Time for Projects

It is possible that there are times when the integration of IoT is inevitable. You have to understand

that the implementation of the internet of things consumes quite a lot of time. Only in a few

selected cases, the implementation is quick enough to be released within a year (9 months to be

exact). On the other hand, on average, it can take up to 24 months for an IoT project.

Such long time intervals are caused due to certain business problems, for instance without

obtaining the buy-in from the suitable stakeholders or technical problems like the lack of an

infrastructure which can back the system to scale in terms of a scenario having a commercial

deployment.

Moreover, many companies are unable to get profits in the early years and instead target the

IoT solution for improvement. Make sure that all your project stakeholders are patient enough

and create tiny success stories of yours which can please both the senior management and the

shareholders.

Necessary Skills

The cloud architecture, data analytics, back-end integration, security design, application

enablement, and embedded system design are among the skills which are needed for the solu-

tion development of end-to-end systems.

However, there are many manufacturers that simply do not possess the required experi-

ence to use LPWAN communication, AMQP and MQTT protocols, and edge analytics with the

IoT systems.

IoT experts are also concerned with the vast skill-set gap which has hovered over the data

science industry. What you can do is to assess this skill gap and use measures like cross-training

and up-skilling of employees with an emphasis on the newer technologies. Organize consulta-

tions with IoT professionals who work with various IoT applications to learn more.

Security

Often, the security aspect comes to a lot later after the development of the IoT technologies

have already begun, thus it is kind of an afterthought. Often, in the early designs, functionalities

are added in the devices at the expenses of security features. It is important to understand that

global device and data security has a strong contribution to the internet of things technology

development if the customers and businesses plan to use the IoT systems on a major scale.

For instance, the connected medical devices’ manufacturer has hired an ethical hacker. This

hacker is responsible to discover the network’s security vulnerabilities. The professional uses

standard hacking tactics like penetration, rooting, and de-obfuscation of the source code.

You should try to adhere to the best IoT security practices such as employing unique iden-

tity keys, using a secure boot process, and trying models like STRIDE model to map the attack

surface.

Interconnectivity

While looking for mobile apps, users often download and install apps without thinking much.

If these users do not know much about the internet of things, then they can have wrong ideas

about how to use it.

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