How AEPs Make IoT Applications Scalable
By: Jan Olsen, Connectivity and IOT thoughts
The Internet of Things (IoT) will keep expanding rapidly. And one of the most important considerations in managing such rapid expansion will be scalability. The ever-growing number of connected devices, the inclusion of new users, cutting-edge application features, and deep analytics capabilities must all be supported by IoT apps. To continuously monitor, fully secure, and manage the growing number of devices, IoT applications must be scalable.
Sensors, data aggregators, and edge intelligence devices are a few technology components used to build IoT applications. These components include data delivery services, application ingestion and transformation, data storage and management, analytics and business logic code engines, dashboard creation tools, and application layers. These components must operate in a highly secure, scalable, and always-on system.
Given the complexity of the Internet of Things, it is simple for even experienced teams to see how the costs and timetables of it can spiral out of control, producing inadequate results or even project abandonment. Despite the accessibility of great tools such as low-cost sensors and edge processing, universal communications (Wi-Fi, LTE, LTE-M, etc.), and low-cost cloud computing, the difficulty of building custom or triumphant IoT applications remains hard to succeed. Simply said, even with the great tools from providers, it has been too difficult to construct these complete stacks and create custom applications.
How do Application Enablement Platforms help?
AEPs, or Application Enablement Platforms, provide developers with a platform that simplifies the building, testing, and scaling of new use cases and apps.
IoT Application Enablement Platforms (AEP) allows businesses and tech companies to embrace the advantages of IoT. A strong AEP will offer a secure, dependable, and scalable IoT platform with all necessary technical and service components and a full set of tools and processes to allow the speedy development of applications. Developing complex new apps today takes a few days or weeks instead of months or even years.
In addition to the safe, dependable, and scalable platform and application design tools, a strong AEP can also include building blocks and modules for anomaly detection and diagnostics and modules for scheduling and managing alarms and alerts. AEPs’ Low Code workflows speed up the process of developing applications and expand the scope and value of the Lego Blocks needed to create a full and strong application; an AEP can even use specific predictive maintenance solutions, which accelerates the production of IoT solutions. As a result, AEP will greatly speed up the development of IoT applications while simultaneously making it simple to iteratively add new levels of sophistication, connectivity to other systems, and consumer features.
AEPs provide the following factors which aid in making IoT applications scalable:
- AEPs provide automatic bootstrapping: For applications to be highly scalable, an AEP allows automated bootstrapping, registration, monitoring, and upgrade.
- AEPs help build a data processing pipeline: AEPs play a key role in building a balanced data pipeline that can support the continuous flow of the structured and unstructured data associated with IoT applications.
- AEPs allow a microservices architecture: AEPs are used to create a microservices architecture in which IoT applications are divided into several different functional components, each component carrying out a certain process. These active components deploy and operate independently and communicate with each other. Microservices architecture help in making the building process of successful IoT applications easier.
This proves that to accommodate the growing number of devices, users, and data volumes, businesses can construct strong IoT applications with the aid of a well-designed IoT Application Enablement Platform. To know more about all the benefits our LINC CONNECT AEP can bring to your business, please visit http://www.rpmanetworks.com.
