IoT solution automation and DevOps

To understand why automation is such an important aspect of best-in-class IoT solutions, think about the following: you have designed and built a highly available, scalable, resilient, and fully monitored IoT solution. One day, you get a notification or an alert from the IoT monitoring solution that there's a software bug or a security vulnerability discovered on the IoT device, IoT Edge, or in any IoT backend component. Now, if you don't have an automated process and tools in place to enable you to quickly release a software patch, then you lose all the benefits you get from a system like an IoT monitoring system. What is the point of being notified about issues if it takes such a long time to fix such issues?! Automation is what closes the circle of having a good IoT solution with high operational excellence.

Delays in releasing software patches to your IoT devices or the IoT cloud could have severe impacts on the company's brand...