McKinsey November 16, 2021
Wienke Giezeman is building and serving an IoT ecosystem by offering open-source tools and a “workbench” on which to build solutions.
One of the core challenges of bringing the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT) to life is getting started—how can enterprises successfully begin to adopt IoT when the solutions needed are so specific to a given business or business case, and off-the-shelf options have not yet sufficiently evolved? And how can the emerging technology evolve when getting started is so difficult?
Two sister organizations in Amsterdam seek to address both of those challenges together. One, The Things Network, is a not-for-profit organization that offers open-source tools for enterprises to build their own IoT solution on a low-power, LoRaWAN...