Build or buy an IoT platform

A first dashboard is a weekend. A platform customers rely on is everything after it: accounts that keep customers apart, alerts that reach the right person, a record that survives outages, firmware updates in the field, and someone to keep all of it running for the life of the product.

What a production platform has to do

Why it takes longer than expected
Accounts and permissionsCustomers, dealers and service companies each see only their own, and that boundary has to hold everywhere
Buffering and timekeepingReadings taken offline must arrive in order with the right time, or the record has holes
Alerts and escalationThresholds, acknowledgement and delivery to people, not to a screen
Export and APIExcel files people can use, and an API with scoped access
Firmware updatesUpdating devices in the field without bricking the ones on a weak signal
AppsiOS and Android apps kept current through every OS release

When each makes sense

Build

When the platform is the product you sell, and you have the team to run it for years.

Buy

When the platform is a means to selling the hardware, the service or the data, and the team is better spent on that.

Where we fit

OmniCloud comes with the Genesis controllers: multi-tenant accounts, alerts, export, a REST API and apps under your own name.

If you build your own front end, the API covers what the dashboard covers, so you are not locked into ours.

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Frequently asked questions

Can we start on your platform and move later?

The REST API gives you your data and control of the devices, so the front end can move to your own system when it makes sense.

Is the platform in production?

Yes. OmniCloud has been in continuous production since 2023.

Not sure which one the site needs?

Tell us what has to be measured or switched, where, and what it has to report into. We say which approach fits, including when it is not ours.

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