IIoT/IoT platforms overview

Now that we have seen the basic components of IIoT application architecture let us look at a few options to choose before building our IIoT solutions. Building a IIoT application from the ground up is possible and requires a large amount of setup, computer power and storage. For a typical IIoT application we need to set up various different programming language environments, database options, analytics frameworks, such as Spark or Storm, data ingestion pipelines and so on. It is possible to build the entire setup from the ground up, but we can also potentially use a robust IIoT platform if it meets our needs.

Utilizing a good IIoT platform will provide you with the needed infrastructure and guidelines to successfully build and launch your IIoT applications, and also it will shorten your go to market timeline. IIoT platforms free up the developer's time building infrastructure so that they can focus on the problem domain and solutions rather than on the infrastructure. In the following sections, I will go over a few of the interesting IIoT platforms that I find very promising.