Why microservices will drive enterprise-grade IoT for business – SD Times
Self-driving tractors, smart supply chains, warehouses operated by robots and self-diagnosing, self-healing machinery are all extraordinary examples of how the industrial sector is leveraging the endless possibilities of Internet-of-Things. According to some estimates, by 2021 global IoT spending across different industries is expected reach almost $1.4 trillion (IDC).
Industrial IoT (IIoT) will help to improve infrastructure, fine-tune operational efficiency and achieve business excellence. The hyper-connected nature of the IoT has made application development on IoT platforms highly complex, requiring seamless interactions with a multitude of software, hardware and an agnostic approach to where data is processed — in the cloud, on the edge or a hybridized mix of the two. Constantly-evolving variations of the core use case arise, with little time for development, testing and deployment.