Getting started with IoT

Integrating IoT
IoT is here and it’s time for organisations across the country to take advantage
of the transformational benefits of the technologies and expertise available.
IoT is a game-changer, allowing companies to create new products and services or
implement cost and time-saving efficiencies using data and insights gathered in
real-time. Environmental, health and social care IoT applications will also have positive
impacts on society.
The availability and low price of sensors, coupled with major leaps in data storage and
computing capabilities, means that the time is right for businesses to embrace the
major improvements, new opportunities and cost savings that IoT offers.
Contents
An introduction to IoT 3
• The road to IoT 4
• Benefits for business, industry and society 5
• Security 5
IoT in action 6
• Example application areas for IoT 7
• How a typical IoT system works 9
• Industrial IoT (IIoT) 10
Business models 11
• Software as a Service (SaaS) 11
• Hardware as a Service (HaaS) 11
• Emerging business models 12
The CENSIS IoT stack 13
• Sensors 14
• Microcontrollers, edge and embedded computing 15
• Communications, networking and wireless technologies 16
• Data repository 19
• Analysis and post processing 19
• Visualisation and presentation 19
Implementing IoT 20
• Finding IoT expertise 21
• Your first prototype 21
• Joining the IoT community in Scotland 21
Glossary 22
Text with an explanation in the Glossary on P22 is underlined the first time it is used.
If you are reading the printed version of this brochure, you can download a hyperlinked pdf at censis.org.uk/brochures
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