Presentation by Emmanuel Odunlade during the IoT Forum Africa 2019 in Johannesburg. The talk discussed the types of IoT platforms, factors that should be considered when selecting a platform for IoT Solutions and the consequences of wrong platform selection.

1. Selecting the Right
Platforms for IoT Solutions
Emmanuel Odunlade
CEO
Hinge Systems

2. Contents
About Hinge
Platforms Driving Solution Deployment
Types of IoT Platform
What Could Go Wrong?
Factors to Consider When Selecting a Platform
Conclusion

3. Consulting and Strategy
Development
IoT Product Design and
Development
Ecosystem Management

4. Platforms Driven IoT
Development
Smashing Predictions
● provide a series of
integrated services and
infrastructure (data storage,
connectivity etc.) generally
required to connect "things"
to the internet.
● Handling the heavy liftings,
Increasing time to market
for thousands of IoT
Solutions.
● 450 IoT Platforms as at
2018. Increased by over
100% compared to the
previous Year

5. Types of IoT Platforms
To clearly identify where each platform fits in your solution
architecture, It is important to understand the difference between
IoT platforms.
Hardware
Platforms
End to End
Platforms
Device
Cloud
Connectivity
Platforms

6. What Could Go Wrong?
● Unscalable Systems
● Maintenance Difficulties
● Underutilization of Data
● Waste of Funds
● Increased time to market

7. Factors to Consider when Selecting a Platform
● Types of Service & Model
● Domain Expertise
● Reliability
● Device Management
● Support
● Cost
● Compatibility
● Connectivity
● Scalability
● Security
● Integrations and data
handling

8. Thank you for
Listening