Full deployment

Now that we've completed both prototype development and a pilot installation of our Digital Twin solution, we are ready to move to full-scale deployment.

We often hear the term pilot purgatory, which is associated with pilots that do not move to production. The IoT World Forum (IoTWF) reported in 2017 that 60% of IoT initiatives stall at the POC and pilot phases (http://bit.ly/idt-IoTWF).

This may sound like an alarming statistic, but in reality, it shows that the phased development approach of Figure 7.10 works as it filters out projects that are likely to be unsuccessful at scale. This means that these projects could not satisfy the criteria of the technology at work, the business value, or the user acceptance. It is better to have projects fail at the early stages when the financial and business impact is limited, rather than end up with expensive failed projects that also damage personal and organizational reputations.

However, the next stage is a...