Deploying The Internet Of Things: Don't Make The Same Mistakes

By Jim West, Vice President of Facilities Technology for Velociti

For anyone who’s survived a messy network deployment, the ambition and complexity of Internet of Things deployments should raise flags. From the very start, you need to plan for successful staging, installation, visibility, and ongoing monitoring.

Tiny sensors, swarm intelligence, Big Data. Lots of glamour, lots of anticipation. We’re well on our way to a sensor-enabled planet, with a trillion objects eventually reporting activity, temperature, motion, radiation, and whatever else developers and their clients can dream up. While most of the popular press is given over to consumer applications like connected homes, cars, and clothing, the high-economic-value opportunity is likely to be industrial and commercial IoT applications in factories, hospitals, hotels, farms, municipalities, logistics chains, jet engines, drilling rigs, wind farms, and elsewhere.

But what about deploying these many smart devices? Why worry about that? Isn’t that something you can just plug in or cable together at the end of our project timeline? Unfortunately, no.

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