Getting started with IoT
Bringing IoT products to market involves varied requirements, ranging from embedded engineering, app development, backend hosting, software update infrastructure, maintenance and after-sales customer support.
Deploying these capabilities at scale typically requires large upfront investments. The complexity involved in acquiring and orchestrating these requirements delays time-to-market.
Illustration of common factors to be considered when bringing an IoT product to market
Our IoT Professional Services bring agility to enterprise IoT projects. Through our offerings, enterprises embrace a lean methodology for IoT product commercialisation. Innovative companies can leverage our IoT portfolio to bring the first version of a product to market quickly, carry out product discovery and gather initial customer feedback, without committing more resources to scaling their product.
What do we offer?
| Ubuntu Core | A container operating system built specifically for IoT and devices, optimised for high security, performance and reliability |
| Hardware certification and enablement | Pre-certified hardware available, or hardware certification and enablement packages for any board |
| IoT app embedding | Porting of up to 3 IoT applications to snaps |
| Hosted cloud infrastructure | Dedicated Snap Store for up to 1,000 devices |
| Over-the-air (OTA) update services | Monthly OTA software updates for one year |
| Technical support | Embedded technical support options |
| Consulting | 3 days of professional consulting |
| Lead time | Standard delivery in two weeks, advanced hardware options have longer delivery time |
| Add-ons (optional) | Board bring-up (custom kernel with BSP integration) Full disk encryption Secure boot Kernel Livepatch Dedicated training workshops |