The wide use of the Internet of Things impacts the software development process

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To succeed in the Internet of Things or IoT environment, creating the right development team is paramount. A software development company should keep updated on the relationship of connected devices. Furthermore, it should update the skill sets of its development team to meet the changing needs and processes.

Software development organizations provide effective services to build software solutions that meet the needs and requirements of businesses and organizations. The services of a software development service provider brings reliability and peace of mind to clientele anywhere in the world. With the massive use of IoT solutions these days, it’s important for app development companies to always be updated.

HOW TO MANAGE THE INTERNET OF THINGS SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY
Coordinating with software teams would be difficult without the right DevOps platform, since any software upgrade should be coordinated in a way that won’t break the functionality between the various software components installed on different systems and devices. There are unique requirements to enable streamlined and efficient IoT app delivery. A single platform is needed for addressing the various domains and integrate and orchestrate the work transitions between teams throughout the lifecycle of the product. Furthermore, the platform should be able to track artifacts, processing results and who works on various stages.

GETTING THE INTERNET OF THINGS RIGHT
The IoT brings rise to a plethora of useful and new services that enrich lives, streamline it, save money and time. To provide complex and connected services, internet of things companies should at least have three software teams to deliver integrated, different service components across various devices and platforms. Additionally, software upgrades have to be coordinated to all environments to ascertain continuity of service. Only an integrated DevOps platform provide the visibility, traceability, shared control, ability to react fast for the complex process of development, testing and deploying processes.

IOT USAGE BRINGS ABOUT CHANGES IN ALL AREAS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The wide use of the Internet of thing bring about changes in all aspects of IT and definitely impacts such areas like custom software development, new tech and web services application, software architecture, front end development as well as UI design. New job responsibilities and roles in software companies would be in great demand. QA and project management would be impacted as well to provide more simplified processes in a world that is increasingly becoming IoT.

WAYS THAT IOT ADOPTION TRANSFORMS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
1. New vulnerabilities in security. Specialists of the internet of things would not only have to learn new ways working with major protocols, but reimagine security policies as well that meet the needs of growing threats. Forbes also predicts the growth of IoT-specific online crimes, such as ransom-ware crimes so developers would have to find new methods to efficiently combat them.
2. Support for IoT solutions. All solutions of IoT would need customer-facing support that span device providers, third party support and networking. New platform and tech migrations would be other areas wherein support would be a necessity.

3. Extended connectivity navigation. Integration with external products, from baby monitors to IP cameras means that extensions of networks that developers work with. With each connected device posing potential risk, this is not only a question of security but also skills working with networks wider than before, more unstable and unpredictable.

4. Updating and maintenance. Software teams should tweak their capabilities and skill sets to ensure continuous frequent and quick updates of IoT products to keep up with the growing innovations.
5. QA and project management teams have to adapt new methods of quality assurance. To succeed in today’s internet of things world, QA and PM specialists would have to come up with effective interacting methods with software development teams.

6. Analyzing data from IoT and sensors. This means that even more big data and more kinds of it coming from every direction. It will not only keep visualization experts and data scientists a hot commodity but would also force developers to take on data processing and storage responsibilities and dashboard development as well. Developers should work closer with data scientists to deal with the growing data volumes.

7. Building robust IoT teams. The focus on deploying IoT would mean that software organizations would have to focus on constant training and re-training of existing specialists as well as active headhunting of the hot new roles in the internet of things. The strength of the teams determines if the organizations would sink or swim in a market that that’s being shaped at this very moment.

The adoption of the internet of things in software development processes could bring about the next industrial revolution. Iconic internet of things products are yet to be created. The best thing for a software service provider to do today is to jump on the bandwagon to get its chance on hitting the jackpot in the world that is becoming more and more connected, credits to the internet of things.

Dhrumit Shukla
TatvaSoft
Dhrumit Shukla has been working as Business Development Manager in a software development company named TatvaSoft since 5 years. He is profoundly skilled and well experienced in providing software development services on various technologies ranging from Microsoft .NET to JAVA, SalesForce, BizTalk, SharePoint, PHP, Open Source, iOS, Android, Pentaho and the list goes on.

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