IoT-Kits on the test bench - fiction and truth

Numerous manufacturers offer IoT kits that transfer measurement data into a cloud via a radio interface. Of course, these systems offer different features and functions that need to be examined in order to estimate the necessary development effort. A closer look at the various systems quickly reveals that the respective signal processing chain is more or less completely implemented by the manufacturers, even if it is called IoT. Although most kits are all intended for IoT or smart home applications, the demo and evaluation kits or packages known as developer systems offer developers very different solutions in terms of structure, scope of functions and possible expandability.

DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK has investigated how the development of its own IoT systems presents itself in practice, i.e. whether the promises of the manufacturers are kept and what consequential costs may arise, for example for a functioning development environment or the cloud connection as well as which additional work steps.