I believe every IoT and Industrial IoT system designer and software developer should consider the question in the title. Do you?
With millions of ready-made hardware solutions, fierce competition keeps hardware prices down. This may lead one to think that hardware does not matter. And that one can choose the cheapest platform that seems to be able to run the software in a test environment.
In the last few months, what we touch – and who else has touched it – has suddenly become a critical thought process that very few people thought of previously. Touch screens, devices, kiosks, fuel pumps – people are a lot more conscious of what they have to touch, and the implications of hygiene on every day life.
“The time spent with Avnet Embedded and Microsoft was invaluable to developing OVERHEADsafe further – and fast. It became clear that the wearable had the potential to do so much more. In an environment where phones are uncommon, they had the chance to take some of the capabilities of a smartphone and build them into the vest.”