Developing for the IoT

• What are the newest innovations within IoT software, hardware and platforms and how are they impacting the current market?
• What will companies have to do to still be viable in a 2022 IoT marketplace?
• Predictions for which sectors will see growth in the next 5 years and which ones will fall by the wayside?
• Role of other disruptive tech like AI, machine learning and blockchain to IoT.

• What challenges are there for IoT product development and how can they be overcome?
• Understanding the route to market and stages in the start-up lifecycle for an IoT business
• What are investors looking for in an IoT business
• Success stories – what they got right, and why we chose to invest

Advances in Virtualization and Machine Learning are creating exciting business opportunities based on the value inherent in IoT data. As a result, barriers facing IoT application developers will fall dramatically in the next few years enabling them to realize this value. Whether access to IoT-ready APIs, addressing protocol, connectivity or security unknowns, or simply eliminating the need for physical devices during development, time-to-market will shrink ushering in a new generation of IoT-enabled applications and experiences. We will talk about KnowThings.io approach to help accelerate the developer productivity paving path to a simplified and pain-free continuous integration(CI/CD) DevOps model and help unleash a fresh wave of developer-led creativity. 

• There are over 400 IoT platforms available in the current market of every size and shape, how do you choose between this bewildering array? 
• Who should you talk to before making this decision? 
• What is the main difference between the big players offerings and smaller more specialised management systems? 
• Discussion of the key considerations when choosing a platform; provisioning and authentication, configuration and control, monitoring and diagnostics and software updates and maintenance. 
• Bottom up vs top down approaches in selection. 

• How effective are the currently available tools designed to reduce the design-develop-deployment cycle? 
• Do they provide the level of flexibility required to allow your products to change over their lifecycle? 
• What are the challenges that arise with using sensors and how to overcome them? 
• What role does open source software play here? 

• What new approaches need to be taken to testing software and hardware within the IoT environment? 
• How to move testing outside of the laboratory. 
• What actually needs to be tested? Connectivity, security, safety and reliability. 
• Discussion of real world examples of testing IoT devices and platforms, potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. 

5G has been heralded as one of the most significant technologies to enable the full potential of the IoT. This talk will look at how the global adoption of 5G will truly affect the IoT, from delivering the real-time control necessary for critical IoT applications, to how it will modify the way that manufacturers design and build IoT solutions. 

• Exploring trustworthy connectivity in the IoT in a world with heterogenous networks and potential restrictions of embedded devices 
• Advances in wireless connectivity enabling the IoT within industry and the home and beyond. 
• Discovering the challenges that can potentially disrupt connectivity and how to solve those in the future – signalling, security, presence detection, power consumption, bandwidth 
• What connectivity-based solutions are currently available and what can they achieve? 

Discussing how the Mesh networks can be utilised by a range of industries, not just the Smart Home sector to provide flexible and scalable connectivity without the need for ISP’s for the IoT.  This talk will cover strengths and weaknesses of Mesh including range, battery life and latency, plus discuss the future directions and threats to the current IoT model. 

• What is going to be the big disruptor within the currently stagnant interoperability market? 
• What are ways to enable interoperability to scale from device-to-device and application-to-application all the way to system-to-system, infrastructure-to-infrastructure, sector-to-sector, region-to-region, and above for a truly global IoT?
•  Issues with scalability in data modelling for the IoT; maintaining data quality whilst keeping analytics cost effective and timely. 
• Importance of structures in scalability – the need for simple but dynamic structures to enable real time data analytics. 

The increasing number of connected devices means that there is an increasing need for networks that can cover massive amounts of connections per cell, at low cost and using low power.  Using NB-IoT, several Telco’s are entering this market, but what are the advantages and disadvantages of this type of technology over other LPWA networks like LoRa?  And how does being an established Telco help you connect with customers in this crowded market.  Finally, we will discuss the future of NB-IoT with the introduction of %G IoT networks looming. 

• Which is better for your product, a Cat-o, Cat-1 or Cat-M LTE network or an LPWA network? 
• What are the effective business models for collaboration with key verticals? 
• Discussions around range vs. data rate vs power consumption for these IoT connectivity technologies 
• The drawbacks for each network, including security and whether devices can actively initiate communication with the network