How to over come top most IoT Challenges

IoT is still a new technology to many businesses and enterprises often see uncertainty when implementing new technical architecture especially when implementing large-scale business transformation. There are a number of reasons for this.

What binds all these different IoT challenges together is It’s complex and lengthy process to make it successful but this is false information people have in mind until unless you don’t have a trustworthy IoT Vendor so that’s where proof of concepts, trials comes in but if your approach is clear and straight you can achieve the result with less investment and can decide the ROI of your business. 

After understanding the challenges industries are facing hIOTron has built along with industrial specific solution there are POC kit with some basic changes in code so you can go with your POC of any custom IoT Application in just 4 weeks with hIOTron.

Power Management: An IoT Research Challenge

The use of battery powered devices in IoT has grew with much of growth. The battery capacity and device behavior are the important factors.

There are 3 factors involved in iot device power consumption like microcontroller, Radio Operation and sensors & actuators.

Usually IoT Device connects with multiple sensors and actuators to get the data and the data received can be used locally or remotely to take the decisions.

IoT Nodes connected with gateway during it’s communication with sensors receive data remotely and send that data to IoT Gateway and gateway send that data to IoT Cloud platform.

The sending and receiving data is the most expensive task from battery power consumption point of view. This operation includes connectivity channels such as cellular (2G,3G,4G), Bluetooth and Wi-fi.

As per the rules set in the platform nodes control the one or more actuators.

4 factors that control the consumption of battery level are as follow:

  1. Writing Code
  2. Sleep mode set up [ always wake up, modem sleep mode and deep sleep mode]

One way to over come this challenge is to iot devices like hIOTron IoT Development Kit, smart lock and many other which are designed that it takes the lower power from BLE to achieve longer battery life. More solutions like it will be needed to help address increasing power demands and fuel the rapid growth of IoT.  

IoT Connectivity Challenges:

When developing IoT devices network connectivity is fairly easy with couple of devices connected to backend server.

We are now discuss with types of network connectivity for IoT devices.

  • Signalling:  IoT Devices are communicating with server and server is communicating with devices or devices are communicating with one other to collect the data. No matter the type of use cases but the data needs to flow from point 1 to point 2 quickly and reliably.
  • Security : While this communication is happening it is obligatory to be sure that device and server has accreditation to send and receive a data. End-to-End encryption between device and sever is necessary.
  • Connectivity status: It is important to know which device drops off the network and goes offline and when that device comes back online. This gives ability to fix any problem that may arise in the network.

There are 2 types of connectivity options like licensed and unlicensed. WiFi, Zigbee, Bluetooth, Lorawan operates on unlicensed network and cellular networks like GSM, CDMA, LTE, Satellite based communication operates on licensed network. 

The typical go to for IoT connectivity is WiFi, it works well for the consumer products but there is more complexity in business and many IT companies won’t allow third party devices on their network due to security concerns.

Cellular Is another good option and the data charges of cellular 4G network is also in the budget of common man.

 Hiotron essentially creates a parallel WiFi-like system to connect devices while isolating them from the existing WiFi computer network. This addresses IoT security and privacy challenges by sequestering the business’ computer network from the security risks posed by third-party devices.

Bluetooth technology, widely used for wireless connections for consumer devices, is also finding use in business applications as a solution for IoT connectivity. Hiotron leverages existing Bluetooth technology to connect devices in an isolated network to protect computer networks from security risks. 

 IoT Hardware Challenges

Every business has different operations and the requirement of businesses are different. When enterprises from any industry wants to enable IoT Technology  there are multiple things comes under a picture like industrial design of the new device, circuit board, connectors, battery, and charging solution; verifying battery safety; studying how people interact with the device; and more.

All these process are complicated, expensive, and time-consuming. And after all these investment of time and money if anything went wrong then you can’t afford to repeat the process.

hIOTron has made this process very simple, in that industry can analyse their requirement of IoT Solutions with hIOTron POC IoT Development kit. With this kit to you can build a prototype in just 3 weeks of time. As hIOTron ready-made iot solution kit only has to make little changes as per the requirement of client and you are ready to go for bulk production.

The brain of this IoT solution is Hi-Gate a Gateway which is developed accordingly that can work with any industrial IoT Solution with little changes in code.

Need help with your organization’s IoT challenges?

IoT has transformative potential for both businesses and customers. Acquiring the technology and implementing it to get the ROI you want is a never a complicated process with hIOTron®. To smooth the transition, contact us for assistance in selecting and implementing the best IoT solution for your business.