A very important note before we get started with the features is that in IoT there is no cookie cutter solution for building an IoT solution, be it a start-up or be it an enterprise, the application, the use case, the boundaries of the problem we are solving determines the ideal platform and it will vary from problem statement to problem statement.
Also note that various layers in the IoT can be plugged and played, as I have shown in the previous section.
So, what features are bare essentials?