Ahead of their upcoming webinar highlighting the legal obligations IoT stakeholders currently face in the EU, the UK and the US, Jimmy Jones, Head of Security for ZARIOT, takes us back to the roots of all IoT solutions – connectivity and security – to remind us why these often-neglected fundamentals are vital to maximise your IoT investments and benefits.
What are the true fundamentals of IoT?
The Internet of Things (IoT) provides businesses the opportunity to “move the needle”, enhancing everything from market share to customer service, and delivering unprecedented levels of business efficiency.
We understand this will be achieved using AI-led data driven insights and the ability to implement a more seamless approach to IT/Operational Technology (OT) convergence, to augment operations and processes across the board.
Exciting, isn’t it?
While a skyscraper is held up by solid foundations, connectivity acts as the backbone of IoT. As these vast buildings require ongoing safety maintenance to remain functional for all occupants, IoT security must stay up to date to protect users as well.”
Yet, in our race towards these ambitions, we often overlook and take certain aspects for granted. Aspects like connectivity and security – which, in fact, anchor and determine the path towards a successful IoT deployment.
While a skyscraper is held up by solid foundations, connectivity acts as the backbone of IoT. As these vast buildings require ongoing safety maintenance to remain functional for all occupants, IoT security must stay up to date to protect users as well.
Getting these two fundamentals in place and performing optimally provides the ideal structured environment to power IoT-fuelled innovation and success. Allowing your business to fully harness the benefits of your IoT investments.
Paving your way to success
ZARIOT are committed to supporting your IoT deployment by delivering exceptional connectivity for your devices. With automatic switching to over 650 best-performing local networks, across 195 countries, we ensure your devices are always transmitting, no matter where you choose to deploy.
This is coupled with rich analytical insights and reports, from both in-house tools and independent partner features that can be implemented at any point of your IoT roll-out with over-the-air (OTA) capabilities.
This gives you the flexibility to constantly update your IoT solution, while allowing you to precisely monitor device performance and react immediately to an emerging situation.
Additionally, IoT security and data privacy has always been core to ZARIOTs offering. This is only becoming more important as the IoT threat landscape continues to evolve. Coupled with upcoming global cybersecurity legislation and rising customer expectations on data privacy, security is increasingly, if not already, a dominant consideration in every IoT deployment.
Finally, building your IoT solution can require a variety of skillsets. Not every business faces the same challenges that require a cookie-cutter solution. Collaborating with trustworthy, committed partners who are keen to help you achieve your vision is key.
The ZARIOT IoT ecosystem is built to give you access to different industry experts who are committed to co-operating transparently. By working together, we can offer fully customised IoT solutions over the entire device lifecycle while simplifying your go-to-market.
Building on sound foundations
Our upcoming webinar on October 10th will be joined by cybersecurity experts with the aim to educate and highlight the legal obligations that IoT stakeholders currently face in the EU, the UK and the US.
It will look to answer how these responsibilities can be effectively addressed within a wider solution, delivering an optimal connectivity solution from planning to installation and through the lifetime of your IoT project.
With ZARIOT, we tell you to leave the heavy lifting of building a resilient and robust foundation to us. This will allow you to focus on the innovation and creativity needed to maximize your IoT and propel your business growth.
