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IIoT, from design to manufacturing: How to create a successful ecosystem for your IoT project?

17 November 2020

LACROIX Electronics

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Our experts, Guillaume Macaigne – IoT Business Development Director, and François Ott – IoT System Architect, participate in the first episode of the guide made by Saft, a battery maker, made to share on how to successfully lead your IoT project.

Both will be approaching the subject of the overall vision: IoT, from design to industrialization, and will be sharing their views of the challenges that IoT developers and users face today and their advice on how to approach, conceive and deploy a successful industrial IoT project.

We have gathered together the best IoT experts and business heads from the IoT world. And we’ve asked them —while looking at each phase of the construction of an IoT project— to share their knowledge and best practices, giving you a step-by-step guide on how to successfully lead your IoT project. Each week, we’ll be sharing one of these interviews with you. We are honored to get started with LACROIX whose ambition is to put its technical and industrial excellence to the service of a connected and responsible world.

In this episode, you will find our expert’s answers to know how to create a successful ecosystem for your IoT project :

Which profiles does the Electronics activity of LACROIX usually deal with and how mature are your clients’ projects when they approach you?
What are the challenges that IoT developers face nowadays?
What are the most common pitfalls that IoT developers encounter that could lead to the failure of a project?
Looking at the big picture, if you had to give 3 bits of advice to someone looking at developing an IoT project, what would they be?

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IIoT, during the last 10 years was all about connectivity – but we now have solutions that have become more mature. Today is all about reliability, scalability and customer processes integration. Tomorrow will be about cyber security, how to standardize data and develop eco-design products.

Guillaume Macaigne
IoT Business Development Director

About Saft, a company of Total :

Saft specializes in advanced technology battery solutions for industry, from the design and development to the production, customization and service provision. For 100 years, Saft’s longer-lasting batteries and systems have provided critical safety applications, back-up power and propulsion for our customers. Our innovative, safe and reliable technology delivers high performance on land, at sea, in the air and in space. Saft is powering industry and smarter cities, while providing critical back-up functionality in remote and harsh environments from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert. Saft is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total, a leading international oil and gas company and a major player in low-carbon energies.