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IoT Platform Pricing Models Compared: Per Device, Per Message and Fixed-Instance Costs
Prices checked on 29 September 2026. Vendor prices change. Check the linked pages before budgeting. An IoT price list fixes one number and lets another move the bill. IoT platform pricing models differ in what they count: devices, messages against a size increment, data volume, users or instance capacity. Most published price lists checked combine…
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SCADA is Dead in 10 Years. What’s Next?
SCADA has been one of the foundations of industrial automation for roughly half a century. I believe that in another ten years, however, the term may describe what industrial software actually does about as accurately as the word “telephone” describes the device we carry in our pockets today. This does not mean that every SCADA…
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MES SOLUTION FOR AN AUTOMATED SMT ASSEMBLY LINE
Project Name MES SOLUTION FOR AN AUTOMATED SMT ASSEMBLY LINE Customer NDA Industry Manufacturing Solution type MES Project Description The customer operates an automatic surface-mount (SMT) assembly line. In most cases, assembly equipment of this class is used at only 25–30% capacity, yet its service life is often 10–15% shorter than estimated. Equipment failure or…
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Vendor Lock-In Is Discussed Way Too Much. Self-Lock-In Almost Never Is.
Vendor lock-in is one of the first risks discussed whenever a company considers using a commercial software platform. What happens if the vendor changes its pricing, shifts the product in the wrong direction, gets acquired, or simply stops serving your needs? What happens if you eventually need to migrate? These are perfectly reasonable questions, and…
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Build vs. Buy an IoT Platform: What Should You Actually Build Yourself?
When building an IoT product, the usual question is whether you should build your own IoT platform or buy one. I think that is the wrong way to frame the decision. The better question is: which parts of your technology are actually your product, and which parts are infrastructure that somebody else has already spent…
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Why IoT Products Fail and How to Avoid Common Pitfalls
Why do IoT products fail after a successful prototype? Often, the challenge is no longer connecting devices—it is scaling the architecture, managing customer-specific requirements, controlling costs, and maintaining the product over time. We set out to build a taxonomy of IoT product failures based on what we have seen through our partners and the wider…
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