Why is the cloud essential for IoT?
In Chapters 3 and 4, we discussed two important aspects of IoT elements: the devices and the wireless connection. However, we also need to consider another crucial element in the IoT system – the cloud.
Undoubtedly, the cloud plays a crucial role in facilitating efficient IoT solutions by offering flexibility, scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness in managing large-scale IoT data, thus creating significant business opportunities. It serves as the operation center for all IoT device data. It has been proven that the cloud has effectively tackled numerous challenges that were hindering the growth of the IoT industry, including high initial investments, slow responses to dynamic market growth, inflexibility to new service demands, and limited global customer engagement, all of which are addressed in the following sections.
The pain point of IoT before the cloud
A brutal challenge faced by IoT application providers as their...
