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Google Cloud IoT Core Retirement Thoughts

Why the big cloud providers' IoT services fall short of a real IoT solution, and what organizations relying on Google Cloud IoT Core should consider next.

Sep 9, 2022

Commercialization Series - Blog 5: Focus on Value to Users / Iterating on New Capabilities

When it comes to IoT and Asset Condition Monitoring, focus on that primary value to users and iterating with new functionality over time.

Jul 13, 2022

Commercialization Series - Blog 4: Support and Troubleshooting

Learn about preparing your team for supporting end-users in your connected IoT solution at scale.

Apr 12, 2022

Commercialization Series - Blog 3: Onboarding End Users

Learn about the the critical steps around onboarding end-users in your connected IoT solution at scale.

Mar 17, 2022

Commercialization Series - Blog 2: Monetization, Pricing, & Billing

Learn key insights as you consider how to monetize, price, and bill for your connected solution at scale.

Jan 25, 2022

OPC UA: A Communication Technology for Industry 4.0

Learn how OPC UA communication technology helps seamlessly connect different machines and production networks in industrial manufacturing environments.

Jul 28, 2021

Machine Learning for Asset-Intensive Industries

Exosite’s ExoSense® remote monitoring application can help organizations quickly augment existing equipment with machine learning capabilities.

Mar 8, 2021

Pump-Based Anomaly Detection

Sensors can be fitted to industrial pumps to monitor a number of data sources, like RPMs, device and ambient temperature, electrical current, humidity...

May 6, 2019

Enhancing IoT Solution Functionality Series - Blog 1: Cloud-to-Cloud Integrations

Feb 4, 2019

How ExoSense™ Insights Enable Industrial Artificial Intelligence

Oct 29, 2018

IoT Pilot Series (2): How to Move from Pilot to Full-Scale Production

Learn how to transition your IoT solution from pilot to full-scale production - hardware selection, security, scale testing, and reliability testing.

Sep 10, 2018

Authentication: The Key to Securing Connected Devices with Public Key Infrastructure Technology

Aug 7, 2018

IoT Pilot Series (1) : Tips to Quickly Deploy an IoT Pilot Project

IoT Pilot Project Series - Blog 1: Tips to Quickly Deploy an IoT Pilot Project

Aug 2, 2018

Discrete IoT Product Enablement Series - Blog 1: Discrete IoT Products

May 31, 2018

General Data Protection Regulation Enforcement & Compliance

Stay compliant understanding how GDPR enhances IoT data security and privacy, giving you control over your personal data in today's digital landscape.

May 15, 2018

How to Gain Traction and Avoid the Common Mistakes in the Early Stage of Your IoT Program

Feb 23, 2018

Holistic Cold-Chain Management

Feb 8, 2018

The Stages of The IoT Project Lifecycle

Learn the critical stages of the IoT Project Lifecycle to increase your organization's chances of success in developing connected products.

Jan 31, 2018

How to Develop a Go-to-Market Strategy That Blows the Competition Away

It’s never too early to plan your go-to-market strategy to ensure you’re ready to take your market (and your competition) by storm. Start by

Nov 14, 2017

Develop a Strong IoT Security Strategy to Protect Your Success

In order to create a modern, pragmatic approach to IoT security strategy, it’s important to pull from both technology and culture equally to be effective.

Nov 7, 2017

The 3 Things You Should Understand about the Cost of IoT

IoT can cost quite a lot, but remember: when it comes to investing in IoT hardware, software, and human resources, what you pay for is what you get.

Oct 31, 2017

IoT Ecosystem 101: Deciding Where to Build, Buy, or Partner for Success

Determining where to build, buy, or partner is key to ensure you bring a full IoT experience to your users. You can do it all on your own, but it often

Oct 24, 2017

IoT Success: Identifying and Designing Your System Architecture

Designing and developing your system architecture is one of the most important aspects of building connected products. Since you and your customers will

Oct 17, 2017

Capture What Really Matters: Data Collection for IoT

Data collection can be used to identify patterns, understand user behaviors, and help diagnose or resolve issues in the field, but only if the data is right

Oct 10, 2017

Getting the Most Success for Your Buck: Monetization Strategies for IoT

As you develop your monetization strategies, make sure you examine the comprehensive impact to top line revenue, investment and ongoing expenses on the

Oct 4, 2017

One Vision to Lead Them All: Organizational Alignment for IoT Success

One of the major first steps in preparing for IoT success is making sure that you have organizational alignment around a clear vision.

Sep 26, 2017

How to Decipher Your Customer Needs for Connected-product Strategy

Sep 19, 2017

IoT Readiness in 11 Steps: Strategies for Success

We’ve condensed and refined our combined knowledge into this extensive IoT readiness guide that includes eleven vital steps to help your company prepare for

Sep 14, 2017

Best Practices for Building a Pragmatic Security Strategy for IoT

If best practices for IoT security aren't implemented across the industry, we’re likely to see more events like the large DDOS attack in 2016. Keeping these

Aug 29, 2017

7 Core Cultural Concepts of IoT Security: Social Principles for Safety

When it comes to IoT security strategies, you should be thinking about the company culture and values. There are 7 core cultural concepts that you should

Aug 22, 2017

Final Layer of Security: Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance

IoT security strategy best practices with robust governance, risk management, and compliance processes for improved outcomes and secure operations.

Aug 10, 2017

Protecting the People: Securing Identities Within IoT Systems

Taking steps to securing identities within your connected system is a critical step in IoT security, especially when it comes to layering your security

Aug 3, 2017

Security by Design: Architecture Considerations for Protection

Proactive preparation works well, but when considering IoT security there are several methods that can be used in the security design of a system to prevent

Jul 25, 2017

Getting Ahead of the Curve: Developing Proactive Responses to Security Threats

Innovative, proactive responses have been devised to deal with the inevitability of successful intrusion. Some methods use social engineering against hacker

Jul 20, 2017

IoT Security in Layers: Defense in Depth

When it comes to developing an IoT security strategy, you can’t get enough of the basics. That’s why your security strategy should involve layering proven

Jul 11, 2017

The 3 Core Technology Concepts of IoT Security You Need to Know

The first step in developing a comprehensive IoT security strategy is understanding the three core technology concepts in the realm of security—data,

Jul 6, 2017

The Digital Twin and the Power of IoT

Jun 20, 2017

Asset Reporting Frequency: Sampling, Monitoring, and Real-Time

Jun 13, 2017

What’s a Digital Twin?

The digital twin concept moves manufacturers and operators closer to the ultimate goal of selling outcomes (results) instead of products (machines).

May 2, 2017

The Customer is (Usually) Right, Listen to Feedback

When it comes to creating a connected product, some companies get caught up in the excitement of new development and forget to ask this one simple question.

Feb 14, 2017

Above the Crowd: Competitive IoT Differentiators

Learn how to create a connected IoT product that stands out from your competition by focusing on these key differentiators.

Feb 7, 2017

Pedaling Toward Success: Connected Brand Growth

Jan 31, 2017

Never Redesign the Wheel: Benefits of Reusable IoT Components

Learn how to establish centralized common IoT components to save you (and other divisions) time and money as you implement IoT.

Jan 10, 2017

Proof of Floatability: Testing Your IoT Projects

Learn the best practices for testing, prototyping, and piloting your IoT solution prior to your commercial release to ensure it's feasibility.

Jan 5, 2017

Maximize Your IoT Success: Limit Your Internal Scope

To overcome the learning curves that comes with IoT, successful organizations seek to limit the scope of early IoT projects in order to maximize success.

Dec 27, 2016

Quality Assurance

Dec 14, 2016

4 Best Practices for Surveying, Selecting, and Funding IoT Initiatives

The following 4 best practices are used by leading organizations to survey, select, and fund IoT project initiatives that return a high-rate of success.

Nov 29, 2016

Planning the Dive: IoT Longevity for OEMS

Successful large industrial organizations adopt the following best practices as they develop their long-term IoT strategy.

Nov 17, 2016

In It for the Long Haul: Long-Term IoT Strategies

Forward-looking companies find ways to innovate quickly, efficiently absorb non-core external technology, and disrupt traditional business structures.

Nov 10, 2016

Scoping Out IoT Platform Providers (Yes, that’s us)

Oct 25, 2016

Boxed Solution Providers: Buying Pre-packaged IoT Deals

Oct 18, 2016

Sketching Out a Corporate-Wide IoT Strategy

IoT represents an opportunity to drive new sources of revenue, decrease operational expenses, grow after-market services, and improve your market position

Oct 13, 2016

Assembling Your Pieces: Approaches to Consider

Sep 20, 2016

Front-End Development for your IoT Solution

A complete IoT strategy has to include a clean, easy-to-use front-end, not just back-end connectivity and data collection.

Aug 30, 2016

End-to-End IoT Security for your Solution

Beyond standard IoT platform security features, OEMs should also account for secure key storage, encrypted flash, tamper protection, and secure RF communications.

Aug 24, 2016

Hosting and Systems Administration of an IoT Solution: Build or Buy?

Server hosting, monitoring, and optimization considerations that any IoT solution needs to get right to stay reliable, secure, and scalable.

Aug 9, 2016

Creating Transformative Moments with IoT (Inside Exosite: Leadership Series)

Former Exosite CEO Hans Rempel on how IoT transforms product delivery into product-and-service delivery, and what it takes to execute a connected-product strategy.

Aug 3, 2016

Architecture Considerations to the IoT Puzzle: Build or Buy?

An overview of the security, reliability, customization, scalability, and extensibility considerations that shape a successful IoT architecture.

Jul 26, 2016

Window Shopping for an IoT Ecosystem

Jul 1, 2016

Prescriptive IoT Analytics: What Should Be Done?

Prescriptive analytics is the final stage of IoT data analytics maturity, turning predictions into decision support or fully automated decision-making.

Jun 30, 2016

IoT - Beyond the Buzzword

A plain-language look at what IoT is and isn't, the three rungs of the IoT application ladder, and why connected brands will make the term feel less like a buzzword over time.

Jun 28, 2016

Predictive IoT Analytics: Projecting Future Device Behavior (Part 3) Classification

How classification, decision trees, and random forests help predict device failure, illustrated with an industrial pump vibration and temperature example.

Jun 21, 2016

IoT Expertise: People. Process. Products.

Exosite's founder on why the hardest part of IoT adoption is rarely the technology, but the organizational change required to realize new connected-product business models.

Jun 16, 2016

Embedded IoT Protocols: WebSocket's Benefits and Drawbacks

WebSocket wasn't designed for IoT, but its network compatibility with HTTP makes it worth weighing against embedded-specific protocols.

May 10, 2016

Predictive IoT Analytics: Projecting Future Device Behavior (Part 2) Cluster Analysis

Cluster analysis groups connected devices by shared attributes to predict behavior, illustrated through a fleet of IoT-connected elevators.

May 6, 2016

New Kid on the Embedded IoT Protocols Block: CoAP

An overview of CoAP, a binary protocol built for resource-constrained embedded devices, including its benefits and drawbacks compared to traditional protocols like HTTP.

Apr 28, 2016

Predictive IoT Analytics: Projecting Future Device Behavior (Part 1)

It's important to define what happened and why, in order to predict what will happen next — an introduction to predictive analytics and machine learning for connected devices.

Apr 27, 2016

Diagnostic IoT Analytics: Why Did It Happen?

Diagnostic analytics builds on descriptive analytics by linking prior device behavior to the causes of failures or unexpected events.

Apr 19, 2016

Descriptive IoT Data Analytics: What Happened?

Descriptive analytics, the first step in data analytics maturity, describes what is happening with the devices in a connected product deployment.

Apr 12, 2016

Insight into the IoT Analytics Maturity Process

The four stages of IoT analytics maturity — descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive — and how each reduces the human input needed to turn data into action.

Apr 5, 2016

Embedded IoT Protocols Guide Part II: The Old Standards of HTTP

HTTP is the best-supported protocol on the web, but its client-server, request/response model creates real trade-offs for embedded IoT deployments.

Mar 10, 2016

Data Analytics for IoT: Business Transformation through Connected Products

An overview of why raw IoT data collection alone doesn't produce business value, and what a long-term analytics strategy needs to include.

Mar 3, 2016

Embedded IoT Protocols Guide: Transport Protocols

A breakdown of the trade-offs between UDP and TCP, the two transport-layer protocols to weigh when selecting application protocols for an embedded IoT solution.

Feb 9, 2016

Building an Enterprise IoT Pricing Strategy Part II

A framework for identifying the payer, the price carrier, and the timing of payment when building an enterprise IoT pricing strategy.

Nov 18, 2015

Building a Pricing Strategy for IoT Products Part I

Four reasons pricing strategy is difficult for connected products: new standards of operation, lack of buyer precedent, hidden value chains, and identifying the payer.

Nov 4, 2015

Quantifying Value: IoT Connected Product Deployment

An approach to quantify and optimize for value within an IoT connected product deployment, using brand loyalty as a worked example.

Oct 23, 2015

How to Leverage IoT for Next Generation Product Design and Quality Assurance

Remote device monitoring lets manufacturers understand product quality and failure patterns at a deeper level than product returns or reviews alone.

Oct 13, 2015

5 Ways to Get to Market Faster with Connected Products

Five ways connected products can shorten time to market, from post-launch feature rollout to extended quality assurance cycles and feature reuse in the cloud.

Oct 5, 2015

Use Connected Products to Streamline Regulatory Compliance

How remote monitoring of temperature and environment in the cold chain can help suppliers streamline FDA reporting and regulatory compliance.

Oct 4, 2015

Risk Reduction With Connected Products

Six ways connected products reduce risk in the field, from personal injury and asset downtime to theft, mal-usage, consumer behavior, and energy costs.

Sep 30, 2015

Design IoT Products that Create Sticky Brand Loyalty and Trust

Real customer data showing how connected products increase spend on replacement parts and repeat purchases, and why UX relevance and trust drive that stickiness.

Sep 25, 2015

How to Build Strong Competitive Positioning with IoT

Connected product offerings can create both offensive advantages, like awareness and preemption, and defensive advantages, like barriers to entry and partnership opportunities.

Sep 21, 2015

How to Create New Revenue Streams with IoT

An overview of the recurring, pay-per-use, and hybrid business models companies can use to generate revenue from connected products.

Sep 15, 2015

How To Develop a Comprehensive Enterprise IoT Strategy

A checklist of the business, technical, and organizational elements enterprises should cover when building an IoT strategy across a diverse product portfolio.

Aug 17, 2015

IoT Strategies: From Prototypes to Stakeholders

Why an end-to-end prototype should be the first step of an IoT product deployment, and how to review it with stakeholders before scaling a broader IoT strategy.

Aug 3, 2015

IoT Business Model: Can You Identify Yours?

An overview of the three IoT business models most common among connected product companies: revenue generation, expense reduction, and free services.

Jul 21, 2015

Have You Assessed The Risks of IoT?

A look at the common risks and pitfalls enterprises face when deploying an IoT solution, from naive technology selection to unrefined business models.

Jun 23, 2015

Are You Being Realistic About the Challenges of IoT?

Six major challenge areas—security, operational readiness, internal fragmentation, customer needs, and embracing innovation—that enterprises should address before entering the IoT market.

Jun 16, 2015

Identifying the IoT Opportunity

A framework of nine areas of opportunity—from new revenue to regulatory compliance—that organizations should consider when developing an IoT strategy.

Jun 2, 2015

Data: The Currency of the Internet of Things

Securing IoT data requires thinking about it in three contexts: data at rest, data in motion, and data in use.

Feb 13, 2015

From the team

Common Condition Monitoring Sensors & Techniques

Monitor Machine PLC data with an Exosite connected HMS Ewon Flexy

Commercialization Series - Blog 1: Manufacturing & Deployment

Blog Series: Preparing to Commercialize a Connected Product

Becoming a Full Solution Company: Key Insights to Successfully Add Software to an Existing Hardware Product

Multi-Customer Deployment Models for Connected Solution Companies