Amidst the complexity and ambiguity of an “Internet of Things” initiative, it can be easy to lose sight of the ultimate business requirements of any project – the need to generate a return on that effort. Projects that begin with a bottom-up approach (of assembling the disparate technologies first) under the expectation of achieving a valuable result are likely to experience disappointment for several reasons.
These technology-centric solutions that focus first on the “things” will be vulnerable to the frailty of a patchwork system regardless of how exceptional the parts are. Ultimately, this approach will struggle to scale because it is not defined to operate in concert with business objectives and at the direction of business processes.
