Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 29 | Page 35

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// careful consideration of the capacity of infrastructure to handle the pressure, an in-depth overview of where the security gaps are, and the need to bring scalability into the picture. Overall, the plan must be to avoid pain points such as the inability to link all the data and process it effectively, failure to establish technology standards to make connected devices ‘understand’ each other, www.intelligentcio.com FEATURE: IOT and the inability to deal with security and data privacy threats. Plan for massive volumes Success in IoT will be bigger and more ‘real time’ than anything we’ve seen before. This means that IoT systems will have to scale painlessly to massive deployments. Kabelo Ngwane, Customer Success Manager at CRS Technologies INTELLIGENTCIO 35