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jonmikeli
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May 14, 2020

IoT Solutions, a proposal to help creating PaaS solutions faster

Hi all,   You can find https://github.com/jonmikeli/iot-accelerator a proposal to try to go faster and better when it comes to building IoT solutions (PaaS). https://github.com/jonmikeli/iot-accel...
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vhyrodrigues
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May 18, 2020

jonmikeli  this is really a nice start! Can I suggest some kind of accelerator using IoT Central? The main idea of IoT Central is to accelerate and facilitate this proximity with IoT and still required Device Management and Data Integration.

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    jonmikeli
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    May 20, 2020

    vhyrodrigues Thank you for your feedback.

    I have been using and testing IoT Central in a few POCs/POVs.
    The idea of the published project is to complete the SaaS approach provided by IoT Central. There is no doubt IoT Central is a fast way to build ready to be used solutions. However, the kind of solution built can be confronted with a certain level of limitations (architecture, evolutivity, optimizations, missing PaaS features, etc) or missing features (functional or technical) to fulfill the requirements of a given project.

     

    I am not saying one or the other is good/bad. Each project needs to be analyzed as a whole before making the decisions.

     

    Additionally, I have met business decision-makers who consider IoT PaaS oriented solutions too complex (which involves risk to them) because they have in mind an inappropriate image of what an IoT PaaS solution represents. The proposed solution is also a way to illustrate that there are means to contain and rationalize that "complexity" without sacrificing features, evolutivity, increasing technical debt, costs, quality, etc.

     

    Feel free to reach out. I will be glad to discuss about all this :).

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      David Jones
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      May 25, 2020

      jonmikeli Your Decision Makers might prefer the  IoTHub-DPS solution which provides connectivity out-of-the-box but supports custom apps on top of that. They therefore have full control of what is happening.

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        jonmikeli
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        May 27, 2020

        Hi David Jones ,

        That is an interesting point. I totally understand what you mean. I have seen more than a project where DPS was not included in the solution (sometimes, due to understandable reasons in the context of the project + customer).

        This being said, it makes sense adding the possibility of adding the DPS as an option (a new version of the scripts is being done, taking that in mind).

         

        As you mentioned, there is no doubt that DPS offers features of great value.

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