Building IoT devices requires embedded software development. There are both software and hardware considerations to take into account when building things like wearables, connected home items, enterprise logistics platforms, retail systems, medical devices and more.

If you want to create a complete IoT system, there are a number of key attributes to consider: the electrical and mechanical design of the embedded device, the IT and networking services that power the device, data, analytics and artificial intelligence behind the device to automate its operation in the larger IoT system and the design and development of an integrated user interface such as a mobile or desktop app.

You’ll need to:

• Choose your hardware platform (i.e., your processor)
• Engineer the application software as well as the back-end and networking support
• Design and develop the UI
• Develop the APIs, web sockets and procedure calls that enable communication to occur between devices and the overall IoT system
• Establish security, data and analytics architectures