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6 Key Assessment Criteria when Evaluating IoT Solutions

Feb. 3, 2017

When it comes to IoT, sales pitches abound—with promises of unthinkable gains in efficiency, cost savings, and new business models. But how can you find which vendors are just boasting and which are the real deal? And how can you determine which partners are the best fit for your company, given the seemingly countless IoT offerings out there?

You need a clear framework to guide your vendor assessment process, says ABI Research analyst Dan Shey, who recently expounded on the subject in a webinar sponsored by Cisco Jasper. In ABI Research’s model, such a framework includes six levels, as shown in the infographic below:

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About the Author

Brian Buntz | Content Director, IoT Institute

Brian is a veteran journalist with more than ten years’ experience covering an array of technologies including the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, and cybersecurity. Before coming to Penton, he served as the editor-in-chief of UBM’s Qmed where he overhauled the brand’s news coverage and helped to dramatically grow the site’s traffic volume. He had previously held managing editor roles on the company’s medical device technology publications including European Medical Device Technology (EMDT) and Medical Device & Diagnostics Industry (MD+DI), and had served as editor-in-chief of Medical Product Manufacturing News (MPMN).

At UBM, Brian also worked closely with the company’s events group on speaker selection and direction and played an important role in cementing famed futurist Ray Kurzweil as a keynote speaker at the 2016 Medical Design & Manufacturing West event in Anaheim. An article of his was also prominently feon kurzweilai.net, a website dedicated to Kurzweil’s ideas.

Multilingual, Brian has an M.A. degree in German from the University of Oklahoma, and he is currently working on mastering French.