IoT Touches Everything By Martin Vilaboy For the uninitiated, it’s easy to think of an enterprise Internet of Things deployment as little more than “dollars per boxes” and some low-bandwidth circuits. It’d be more accurate to think of IoT as “touching everything.” As IoT projects and budgets continue to expand, deployments are becoming less about clusters of siloed IoT devices and more about fully interconnected and autonomous IoT environments. In turn, it’s not uncommon for an IoT implementation to involve a number of other systems and solutions such as security, storage, data analysis, compute, backhaul, on-going monitoring, managed connectivity, private wireless and vertical specific capabilities, among other functions and features. In many cases, all or most of those services are critical to reaching intended outcomes. In other words, IoT is certainly more about selling and deploying a “platform” than a “service.” The channel will play a pivotal role in rollout of IoT platforms MOBILE & WIRELESS 30 CHANNELVISION | SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2023
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