I posted some technical content but never mentioned if it is worth it to be a professional IoT Consultant.
As an IoT Consultant, you have many responsibilities:
- help to define the Business Use Case
- help to predict the potential Business Value provided by some new prototype
- assist in Solution Architecture design
- ensure that the designed system is secure at every layer: device, connectivity, cloud backend
- …
You need to have strong technical background:
- linux os
- networking
- cryptography
- coding in a few programming languages
- cloud services
- …
You need to constantly learn in order to be up-to-date with new technologies, solutions, attack vectors, … .
So it requires significant effort to be the professional IoT Consultant.
Is it even worth it?
That is very subjective and I can speak only from my own perspective.
For me personally, it is very rewarding to have the end-to-end understanding of an IoT initiative.
To see the connection between the high-level Business Vision, understand the Business Value, and know how it is delivered/generated on the very low level (device firmware, processing logic, cloud infrastructure etc.).
That end-to-end visibility gives the unique perspective. The IoT Consultant can leverage this unique perspective to consult/advise at every stage of an IoT initiative and at every business/technical level of details.
So yes, for me, the effort to remain a professional IoT Consultant is worth it.
What about you???
