Getting to the root of TCO for IoT Success
summary
One in six IoT projects yields significant payoff while many fail early; cost questions focus less on chip prices and more on training and installation, maintenance and mis-specified scaling. The talk cites LoRaWAN and The Things Stack, recommends 90-day proof of concept MVPs, zero-touch provisioning, and factory-near manufacturing. A concrete failure: a $5–6k traffic box with a $10 underspecified PSU causes a 10% weekly failure rate and millions in truck roll OPEX, so measure lifecycle Opex not just BOM.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00IoT TCO introduction
- 2:59Why IoT projects fail
- 5:51Hidden IoT costs
- 9:06Data flow and business impact
- 13:01IoT success framework
- 16:13Q&A
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