Introduction

This playbook is designed to provide you with a framework for approaching Internet of Things (IoT) product and business issues. As you work your way through it, you will be asked to think critically and devise your own approaches to answer the challenges. As you complete each checkpoint, be sure to share your work with your colleagues in the community participation forum to gather feedback and o˜er your own suggestions. Throughout the document, you will fnd ‘guiding questions’ that are included to help direct your thinking while you complete each deliverable. You are not responsible for directly addressing each of the guiding questions, although answering them may help you to create responses to the deliverables.

Your work will proceed as follows, in parallel to the program instruction:

1. Explore IoT in the provided context.
2. Select an area of specialization and determine the most appropriate IoT communications technologies for your system.
3. Develop a plan for your system with respect to data, security, and privacy.
4. Explain the alignment of your system with IoT mindsets.
5. Describe a specifc sellable product.
6. Describe a business approach that could be created around your product.