Rapid IoT Development to Deployment
Scott Schwalbe, CEO and co-founder of Nimbelink, discusses the IoT development and deployment process with RCR Wireless News Editor Martha DeGrasse during the Enterprise IoT Summit in Austin, Texas.
“Rapid IoT development to deployment, I’m going to differentiate those a little bit,” Schwalbe said. “If you’re creating an IoT solution, you’re going to have to make a decision if you’re going to build or buy, and I guarantee you do both. How do you think about that?”
He explained critical questions that guide the IoT development process: ownership of underlying intellectual property–“where is your value?”–or a combo of creating and buying IP; time-to-market; in-house expertise covering hardware, software, firmware, connectivity, app developers and other team members.
Schwalbe covers trade-offs based on connectivity schemes and carrier certification and how those two impact a product’s time-to-market.
Regarding more speculative products being developed, Schwalbe said the lack of ability to scale based on consumer-level products like the Raspberry Pi, is a challenge. IoT development boards, Schwalbe said, “are very easy to grab ahold of…being able to just build a quick software development kit. It’s a great baseline platform to get started with so it’s very valuable.”
