Background

The Internet of Things is growing all around us. From connected cars, to refrigerators, to industrial, consumer, and medical devices, one constant continues to develop: everything is connected to the Internet. 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. That’s a lot of things.

Challenges

The Internet of Things brings many opportunities, but it isn’t without challenges:

• Security - With complex and high-profile hacks announced every day, end-users are increasingly aware of the risks of trusting their data to service providers
• Connectivity - Devices often have small form factors and strict power restrictions, making carefully designed and optimized connectivity a key success factor
• Scale - IoT offerings must operate at a massive-scale, both in terms of transactional performance and total data managed by the solution
• User Experience - Products from industry leaders are showing users what they should expect from the Internet of Things, and a polished user experience can be the difference between wide adoption and a flop
• Updates - An unspoken agreement between customers and IoT vendors is that their IoT-enabled devices will continually gain new capabilities and be updated for years to come
• Flexibility - Solutions designed today must be flexible to address tomorrow’s problems so that you can stay ahead of the competition

How Sturdy Can Help

Sturdy can help you architect, design, build, deploy, and manage your IoT platform:

• Fully-integrated, on-shore, software & hardware design and implementation
• Cloud architecture & engineering services from a born-in-the-cloud team
• User experience and visual design to create compelling user interfaces, with designers who sit next to their development counterparts
• DevOps principles baked-in from the start -- continuous integration/delivery, integrated development & ops, and full-stack automation
• Managed services for the long-run; once it's all up and running, we'll be here to help you monitor and manage your new environment

Why Sturdy?

Before it was called the IoT our team was building solutions for connected devices. Our unique approach comes from our years of experience. In order to put together an effective solution, we believe you need the right expertise on the team. We bring integrated hardware, software, and firmware developers, cloud-ops engineers, and usability designers. Then we mix-in modern agile & DevOps practices, plus project managers with a rock-solid record of on-time delivery. The end result is your product delivered on-time, on-budget, and above expectations.