This article is the first one of a series about project management in the field of Internet of Things. Every article, using a real-life project as an example, will exhibit a salient feedback from experience in managing such types of projects.
A first distinctive feature of IoT projects is that they require integration of technical blocks originating from three different domains: electronics, communications and software. And inside these three domains, various different subdomains are usually involved: analog and digital electronics, wireless communication modules, protocol stacks, embedded software, user interfaces, database management, analytics, geospatial data, etc.
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