AZURE IoT BENEFITS

IoT is architecture that measures interactions in the real world, providing data that enhances the personal and business lives of users and creates new business opportunities. IoT illuminates data using direct evidence from the physical world to bring insights that drive action.

For example, SR Cloud Solutions assisted a customer utilise smart IoT devices at end customer locations to control industrial gas boilers to reduce energy spend and record efficiency analytics of the boilers to save customers money and reduce their carbon footprint. 

A well-designed IoT solution has the potential to increase the profit margin of businesses. This can be achieved by optimising the maintenance cost, delivering exceptional customer experience, devising additional revenue streams (by providing add-on services) and reducing machine failures.

Organisations who have adopted IoT framework, in the right spirit, have demonstrated improvements in the operational efficiency and ROI.

From IoT enabled solar energy trackers, enterprise battery management systems leveraging predictive maintenance to IoT enabled industrial automation, the industrial uses cases of IoT implementations are plenty.

It can take between 4 to 6 months (based on your requirements) to develop an IoT solution. Meanwhile, the PoC (Proof-Of-Concept) can be delivered in 2 to 3 months.If you need more information on developing an IoT solution for your business, please get in touch with our sales team.

Defender for IoT enables enterprises to extend their existing cyber security view to their entire IoT solution. Azure provides an end to end view of your business solution, enabling you to take business-related actions and decisions based on your enterprise security posture and collected data. Combined security using Azure IoT, Azure IoT Edge, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud enable you to create the solution you want with the security you need.

Microsoft Defender for IoT delivers comprehensive security across all your IoT/OT devices. For end-user organisations, Microsoft Defender for IoT offers agentless, network-layer security that is rapidly deployed, works with diverse proprietary OT equipment and legacy Windows systems, and interoperates with Microsoft Sentinel and other SOC tools. It can be deployed on-premises or in Azure-connected environments. For IoT device builders, Microsoft Defender for IoT offers lightweight agents to embed device-layer security into new IoT/OT initiatives.

AI can be used to interpret data from IoT information obtained from the physical world, analysed using data science and AI.

An IoT application is used to gain insights from data. It can run in the cloud or in a data center at the edge—anywhere. It can run in your smartphone.

Data processing that happens at the location where data is created is key. Local insights are used to obtain rapid local action, and data need not be transported. For example, a building can be monitored by scheduling occasional reports (for example, once a minute), rather than continuously sending data to the cloud or a data center. Writing simple applications in an edge compute system is easier, since the resources can be dedicated to that task alone. Also, getting a solution production-ready is also easier, as fewer moving parts exist.

Target high-value business outcomes and ensure that the solution is sustainable. The solution should work reliably for years into the future. Develop a mindset that enables you to identify a problem that is looking for an answer and not an IoT idea looking for a problem.