Five aspects to prioritise for a future-proof IoT landscape

Though state-of-the-art when you got it, your IoT infrastructure is outdated, and that cost-cutting solution you pushed so hard for a couple of years ago is no longer effective. You can't support the latest interconnected technologies, and your business is suffering because of it. To get ahead of your competitors you need to future-proof. But where to start?

You might not know what the future will bring, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be ready. To be future-proof is to anticipate changes that could happen, and take steps to ready your business – along with its systems and solutions – for these scenarios.

 To ensure a future-proofed IoT landscape, prioritise these 5 aspects:

1. Security: this is top priority, and should address authorisation, authentication and data encryption at the very least.
2. Scalability: design with scale in mind, because not only is the number of IoT devices going to keep increasing, so is the amount of data being transferred.
3. Portability: leverage cloud-based technologies to enable faster decision- making, and help ensure business agility.
4. Flexibility: architectures and IoT solutions should be flexible enough to adapt to changes, and accept new devices with ease. An inflexible solution too quickly becomes obsolete, and obsolete systems lose businesses money.
5. Data management: implement a data strategy that includes collection, storage, processing and analysis, and leverage this, along with machine learning and artificial intelligence, to derive meaningful insights.

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