Sun.Feb 19, 2017

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How to Make Sense of IoT Hardware

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Hardware decisions impact your IoT product’s cost, user experience, application capabilities, and more. But only about 20% of IoT Product Managers have experience managing hardware. In this post, I demystify IoT hardware to help you understand how a smart device acquires, processes, and communicates data to the Cloud. After surveying hundreds of Product Managers across industries and backgrounds, I’ve […].

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How Does an IoT Device Work?

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

After surveying hundreds of Product Managers across industries and backgrounds, I’ve found that only about 20% of PMs working in IoT have hardware experience. By contrast, over 76% of them are familiar with managing software products. But in IoT, hardware and software work together across the IoT Technology Stack. And managing hardware products requires very different skills than managing software.