Why Most Connected-Device Pilots Never Become a Platform
A pilot usually starts small. One product line gets sensors, one team builds a dashboard, and a single cloud account handles the data. It works, so the business adds another product line, another region, another integration. Nobody planned for that second phase, so each addition gets bolted on with whatever got the last one shipped. Eighteen months later, there are three device protocols, two clouds, and a dashboard nobody outside the original team trusts. The company still calls it an IoT platform, but it's a pile of point solutions wearing one name, and every new device type means another one-off integration instead of a feature toggle.