Choosing the right platform for IoT

There’s a lot of talk about the Internet of Things, the internet that connects everything: every device, perhaps even every human. Let’s first define a ‘thing’. Basically, a thing can be anything but typically we talk about devices that have a connection to a network through, for example, Bluetooth or Wifi and through this connection to the internet. A device can be a machine or someone carrying a device with a Unique Identifier (UID). The device is capable of autonomously transferring data over a network, so without human interference. In literatus this is referred to as machine-to-machine (M2M).

A thing can thus also be a device that is ‘attached’ to a person. You can think of implants that monitor the health status of patients. But we also think of cars with all sorts of sensors alerting the driver when something is wrong with the car and already sends a message to the dealer to get an appointment to fix...