Connected Device Horror Stories and How to Avoid Them!

It’s no secret IIoT can generate incremental revenue for aftermarket services and increase customer lifetime value. In this current economic climate, though, many companies are looking at IIoT to deliver Everything as a Service (XaaS) or outcomes-based sales for the first time. It’s a counter punch; at a time when revenue’s been disrupted, XaaS with IIoT is a way to create predictable revenue and margin.

Smart building technology continues to evolve and its uses are creating unparalleled opportunities for facility managers and service providers alike. In June, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, T-Systems, participated in a live webinar with Axonize to discuss top smart building insights. T-Systems explained how it helps its customers seamlessly improve their buildings’ technology and service quality for their tenants and subsequent customers.

In this celebration of Pi Day, we present a “101” style of getting started with cellular IoT in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem. We show how to relay data from a Raspberry Pi 4, Zero, and Pico to the cloud (and back) using the prepaid cellular Blues Wireless Notecard available at blues.io.

IoT deployments carry inherent risks like undeterred access to devices, poor connectivity and a very large threat surface. With ever-increasing incidents of intrusion, denial of service, spoofing attacks, etc., businesses must take a strategic view of IoT security. IoT developers and Solutions Architects know that a solid security architecture for IoT will require encryption, authentication, and authorization to run at scale. However, today, IoT security needs a different paradigm than IT security – here is where MQTT comes in to help in mitigating IoT security vulnerabilities.