We are witnessing the instrumentation of every available surface in the material world—streets, cars, factories, power grids, ice caps, satellites, clothing, phones, microwaves, milk containers, planets, and even human bodies. These devices generate more data than we have ever experienced. This data is streaming in real-time and will force companies to determine which IoT platform architecture will be resilient, scalable, and extensible enough to handle these new workloads.
IoT projects gather data from sensors or devices to gain real-time insights, accelerate decision-making, perform automated tasks, and create value by enabling organizations to become data-driven. So, the ability to ingest large amounts of data without interruption is a key differentiator in IoT data platforms. Pushing data services further to the edge is the current direction of IoT data platforms—it will continue to be a defense against rising network costs and as edge environments become more robust.
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