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It seems simple - slap a sensor on an Arduino or Raspberry Pi, write some code, collect and analyze the data and then figure out how to sell all or part of that system as a product. Easy to prototype at home, ask for $ on Kickstarter, and bam, you are in business!
Not. So. Fast.
You've just built a complex system of systems. Your sensor interacts with the real world and a microcontroller + communications. That hack, er, endpoint then interacts with a set of networks - access points, gateways, routers, switches - to deliver data to a cloud data center. Lots of endpoints start to impact multiple networks. Your cloud has to ingest all of the incoming data the billions of endpoints you hope to sell. And you still have to make sense of the data at many points across those systems.
Eventually you'll want to build a second generation endpoint, probably with more sensors. Time to rewrite lots of code?
Let's talk with some experts about planning ahead. MoorInsights is moderating this panel.