IDG Contributor Network: The Enterprise of Things: It's the back end that counts
With the popularity of IoT on the rise as the technology “du jour,” many companies are now evaluating whether or not to take the plunge.
Some, of course, have been successfully using machine to machine technologies for many years to great advantage. Sensors, meters, machines connected to monitoring systems, etc., have all been part of a number of vertical oriented industries (e.g., utilities, transportation, medical, vending). And the use of ruggedized handheld devices, many with sensors for data acquisition, have been around for decades powering early versions of the Enterprise of Things (EoT). All of these specialized (and often expensive) solutions generally served specific niche markets.
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