Most IoT solutions are vertical “all-in-one” solutions: IoT devices, gateways, cloud services, and the apps themselves. This has served the market well for the last 20 years during the early IoT (previously named M2M) phase but is the opposite of the way forward; the horizontal IoT platform architecture.
Most market analysts believe that IoT is about to boom and that every individual will use many IoT services at home and in the city, at work, and in the car.
Yggio is a unique IoT management and digitalization platform that can, through its horizontal architecture, handle the explosion of IoT devices and provide access to the expected sharp increase of IoT services and apps supporting the needs of all users. Much like Android and IOS enabled the growth of smartphone apps, Yggio will enable the growth of smart building and city services.
Three different approaches
One provider per service
+ Existing base of providers
– Supplier lock-in
– Limited access to data
– Poor digitalization effectiveness
Single supplier strategy
+ Effective digitalization
– Complete lock-in
– Data ownership
+ Effective digitalization
+ Drives standardization
+ Minimized lock-in
+ Future proof
+ Data ownership
+ Competitive market of service providers
– New business models
– New security risks
how to manage technology fragmentation, supplier lock-in and service innovation
Digital operation and management of cities, utilities, buildings, homes, and assets have traditionally been separated in separate silos and domains where a sole supplier controls all their service levels. However, this is rapidly changing to a situation where many different technologies and actors interact, operate, and compete at the same level.
The new horizontal architecture can be likened to a lasagne built in different layers but becomes an entire taste experience when eaten. In this infographic, we show different layers and actors:
The lasagne model has many strengths:
To successfully implement IoT applications, enterprises need to integrate various IoT-connected products with the right IoT platforms. Lack of proper integration could lead to loss of functionality and efficiency, making it impossible to deliver the envisioned value to the customers.
In 2016 Research vice president at Gartner, Benoit Lheureux, said, “Half the cost of implementing IoT solutions will be spent integrating various IoT components and back-end systems. Therefore, it is vital to understand integration is a crucial IoT competency.” Many failed IoT projects have proved him right.
McKinsey agrees: “40% to 60% of the total values lies on our ability to achieve interoperability between different IoT systems“. Unfortunately, with numerous vendors, OEMs, and service providers, it becomes difficult to maintain interoperability between different IoT systems.
The major challenge here is too many IoT endpoints, standards, and incompatible vendors that need to be connected to aggregate the sensor data and transmit it to an IoT platform. Only with deep integration companies can mine the data to generate insight and to predict the outcomes.
A horizontal integration platform enables verticals and the sharing of resources and data between verticals at a considerably lower cost. This is the foundation for future-proof operations.
Organizations have been developing enterprise applications for years. The typical enterprise architecture consists of (fairly) homogeneous endpoints that communicate directly with servers behind firewalls on-premises or in the cloud over standard TCP/IP communications protocols. But, when it comes to IoT, you must manage many different endpoint types that vary in their compute power, battery life, and support of communications protocols.
The next challenge is how to collect and manage the data generated by these endpoints. IoT devices generate data at volumes that many companies are not yet well equipped to deal with, so they must evaluate the capabilities of their existing infrastructure in the areas of high-scale data ingestion, storage, and analytics. A related challenge is figuring out where data will be collected and processed — on-premises or in the cloud, or both. Organizations must also determine how they will integrate IoT data with other key systems. Combining IoT data with existing data can significantly enhance services and applications.
IT departments must find innovative ways to integrate existing systems with newer deployments to break the silos and create a centralized solution. Alleviating this challenge is essential to realizing the vision of digital transformation and increasing the ROI from IoT deployments. Unfortunately, rarely does an organization have the ability (or willingness) to replace legacy systems when developing their IoT applications.
To address this challenge, Sensative’s Yggio has a horizontal architecture that enables organizations to integrate all the new IoT with the systems they currently have deployed through a single standardized API.
Yggio is the IoT platform that fits into your environment
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