IOT Development
IoT development refers to the set of activities, processes, tools, and technologies dedicated to the creation, design, deployment, and support of IoT solutions. It involves the implementation of configuration and coding tasks needed to build and maintain software and hardware aspects of an IoT solution. The scope of IoT development is vast, as it may cut across security, cloud programming, hardware device programming, networking, systems engineering, and more. This means IoT development is highly collaborative and involves partnering with various professionals under the IoT development banner, as well as other stakeholders, to successfully implement and maintain IoT solutions. IoT solutions need to be high-quality, robust, scalable, user-friendly, and secure. However, IoT development faces some challenges.
Key Components:
- IoT provides a wide attack surface for cyber threats to attempt an attack. It may take compromising just one device out of thousands in an IoT network to expose a whole system. As cyberattack incidents continue to rise, they highlight the high-stakes nature of IoT security. A lack of robust security for IoT platforms, unsecured interfaces, and unencrypted transmission of information among interconnected devices continues to put IoT networks at risk.
- After evaluating the devices they intend to work with, IoT development teams must select operating systems (OSs) suitable to these devices. However, these devices are more constrained in terms of power and memory in comparison to computing systems such as desktops. Selecting the operating systems under such constraints without compromising the effectiveness of the IoT solution can be a challenge.
- IoT systems are characterized by the ability of their devices to transmit data across interrelated equipment. The growing complexity of these networks and their implications introduces greater complexity to the task of specifying the numerous levels of interaction between these devices – and then making them more interoperable.
- The potential of the Internet of Things and technology as a whole can be overshadowed by a reliance on technology and how it’s trusted with confidential information. The threats plaguing the Internet of Things include data leakages, data and identity theft, man-in-the-middle attacks, social engineering, and more.
- The flexibility of IoT implementations means the scope of testing, usability, and compatibility is much wider than that of traditional IT systems. Furthermore, some IoT use cases, such as IoT insulin pumps, leave no room for error, as small errors can be fatal. Constantly ensuring that IoT solutions can maintain quality services in an ever evolving environment is a continuous challenge for development teams.