Right Way To Go Ahead With Iot Development For Your Business

BY: Ashish Joshi
APRIL 16, 2019

Developers who have the best idea of putting IoT to use can seriously improve their products and stay ahead in the competition. For doing the best and out-of-the-box thing, they don’t have to lose their sleep. Developers always have the feeling that the competition is getting a bit edgy even when they have the best products and amazing market. The important thing to do is to deliver a distinct product which has best value to offer and is beneficial to the customers. In today’s digital world, the best way to differentiate your products is by linking it with the digital world of the customers.

Most of the product developers are often nervous when it comes to including IoT capabilities into their products and so they plan to go for the help of IoT experts for the job. However, this comes with its own problems and if the developer ends up finding a wrong person for the job he or she may end up losing money and time spent.

Mistakes that you may make when choosing your IoT development partner are:

Forgetting The Customer

It is definitely good to consider choosing IoT to get more data about your customers. It would be better for your business to know – what products excite the customers? When they usually visit your store? What is the frequency of their visits? These all information will help you understand your customers better.

But you have to keep in mind that IoT has to be about your customers and not you. You need to know what values can the IoT solution offers your customers and how they can benefit from such products. You should be using IoT to improve the user experience of the customers.

If you are new to IoT take some time to understand what others have achieved through IoT implementation. This will help you understand things better with clarity.

Choosing a Web Developer instead of opting for IoT Expert

With increased popularity of IoT, today everybody is getting on the technology which includes web developers. You need to understand that IoT development is not just same as web development. The technologies are different and the hardware used is different too. This means if you wish to have meaningful products developed on IoT technology, only choose IoT experts for the same.

Choosing a Narrow Expert

IoT is an expanding technology and if you find a narrow expert you will end up stuck in the project. In case of IoT development, you need to consider other technologies in place too and so you will need to find somebody who has good experience in the technology and can approach it in best possible manner.

Choosing a partner who cannot scale up

Don’t get fooled simply by seeing the product prototype. Even the prototype has to scale and evolve in order to meet all the needs of the product. Once you have a prototype build better use it for customer testing in order to achieve product development with right look and feel. For the same you need to find IoT expert who can scale up based on the needs.

Choosing a creative one, not an engineer

Without any debate we all agree to the fact that creativity is important to develop attractive designs that offers intuitive and aesthetic feeling; but having creativity is not enough. You need to find somebody who can create beautiful designs all the while building important functionality for the IoT app. The app should be easy to be used and compromises on no user experience.

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Written by Ashish Joshi

"After years of guiding teams of software engineers to deliver large enterprise solutions and complex data integration projects with unmatched accountability, Ashish Joshi manages our expert Research & Development team and is ultimately responsible for the financial management, quality, and timely delivery of projects for our customers.​"

APRIL 16, 2019
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