Comparing local-only, self-hosted, managed-cloud and hybrid IoT architectures

Required by

• Analysing agriculture and water IoT systems required
• Analysing connected robotics and scientific instruments required
• Analysing environmental and infrastructure monitoring systems required
• Analysing home and building automation systems -- requirements, architecture, hard parts, standards required
• Deciding between a gateway and direct-to-cloud devices by translation, buffering and local autonomy required
• Drawing a system's architecture and writing down the interface contract for every arrow required
• Explaining why IoT security differs -- physical consequences, long lifetimes, fleets -- with real incidents required
• Placing C# in an IoT system -- gateways, back ends, tools and simulators -- and not on small MCUs required
• Splitting an IoT back end into ingest, state, API and jobs, and drawing its boundaries required
• Weighing what a managed IoT service does against its pricing and migration cost required