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1. FrequentlyAskedQuestions (FAQs)
On
IoT Cloud App Development

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3. FAQs | IoT CloudApp Development
Q1. Can you share some details about your customer
engagement models for IoT Cloud Application development
projects?
Ans: Our IoT Cloud Application development process begins with
achieving an in-depth understanding of the problem statement and
project requirements. Post this stage, we engage with our customers,
based on the following business models:
1. Fixed Cost Model: Based on a pre-agreed fixed cost, our IoT team
will take care of the Development & Deployment of the Cloud
based IoT application.
2. Time & Material (T&M): In this model, efforts are billed based on
the number of man-hours, and infrastructure costs.
3. Post-deployment support: Our in-house team will provide 24x7
post-deployment support and maintenance services that will include
the following:
• Support for post-production issues, change requests (CR), feature
enhancement requests, and software and/ or security patch
updates.
• Round the clock monitoring and maintenance of the IoT cloud
system.

4. FAQs | IoT CloudApp Development
Q2. How scalable is your Cloud Application solution?
Ans: Our IoT Cloud Application solution is designed to take care of
scale-up in any future business requirements.
The increase in number of connected devices and/or data volume can
be supported by creating multiple instances of the database in a
distributed environment.
This also helps in balancing out any increase in load and tackles any
performance related issues.
In addition to this, data can be stored in a non-relational database
such as the NoSQL DBMS. A non-relational database is based on
schema-free data management architecture and supports scalability
with minimal server downtime.

5. FAQs | IoT Cloud App Development
Q3. Can you share some information about the security related
features of your IoT Cloud Application?
Ans: At Embitel, security as a process is integrated starting from the
design phase of IoT Cloud Application Solution.
Here is a snapshot of our multi-level security mechanism for ensuring
end-to-end security of the IoT Cloud Application Solutions:
Device Side Security: The cloud server uses the Root CA (Client
Authentication) certificate to verify and validate any connection
request received from a device. The Root CA certificate is integrated
with the target IoT devices. The server processes the request only
after verifying that the connection request is made from a known
source.
Additionally, the server matches device IDs’ of each device within the
IoT network against a device authentication list to ensure that only
trusted devices have an access to the server data.
Cloud/Server Side Security: The cloud server is secured using Role
Based Server Access management In order to ensure that users with
adequate permissions ( admin, supervisor, operator) have access to
the server.
Network Security: Every data interaction between the cloud and
various devices is secured using standard encryption mechanisms,
based on SSL or HTTPS.

6. FAQs | IoT CloudApp Development
Q4.What are the business analytics and report generation
capabilities of your IoT Cloud Application Solution?
Ans: Our IoT team has collaborated with numerous
customers to develop specially configured IoT cloud
application, with advanced storage and processing
capabilities. This included:
- Enabling IoT cloud application to store as well as process
historical and real-time data for anomaly detection, pattern
learning , predicting equipment failure.
- Integrating the IoT cloud application with advanced
business intelligence dashboards and tools like and Amazon
Quicksight and Power BI.
In addition to this, we can also enable the IoT cloud
application to generate real-time reports and graphs in
different file formats including PDF, Excel, or CSV- based on
the business requirements.

7. FAQs | IoT CloudApp Development
Q5.Will it be ideal to migrate my IoT application from physical
enterprise server to any of the cloud servers? Can you explain some
of the benefits of migrating to a cloud server?
Ans: Moving your IoT application out of the physical servers to a cloud
servers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help you focus on the
development process and worry less about scaling up the
infrastructure with increase in server load.
In addition to this, migrating your application to cloud server offers
the following:
a. Scalability: When hosted on a cloud server, which is based on pay-
per-use business model, you can scale up and scale down based on
business requirements and load, from time to time.
b. Easy Accessibility: If your application is hosted on a cloud server, it
will be easy for your team to manage the devices and the data, even
from a remote location, via a secure authentication process. This
also means that your team can easily respond to any issue requiring
an immediate attention.
c. Access to efficient tools: When you use cloud services, you also can
make use of large pool of cloud based tools and APIs designed for
enhanced performance and simplified operations.

8. FAQs | IoT CloudApp Development
Q6.Can you give me a brief overview about the tools and
technology frameworks required for developing an IoT Cloud App
solution?
Ans:
Framework Technology Type
Frontend HTML5, Javascript, Ajax, CSS,
HighCharts, Bootstrap,
Scripting Language Python, C#.Net
Web Framework Python Based Django framework
Web server Nginx, Microsoft IIS, Apache
DBMS PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL
Cryptographic protocols TLS/SSL
Communication Protocol MQTT - Message Queuing
Telemetry Transport
Security Services/ Encryption HTTP and/or HTTPS

9. FAQs | IoT CloudApp Development
Q7.Please share details regarding the skill-sets of your team
involved in development of IoT Cloud App solution?
Ans: Our IoT Cloud App solution team consists of experienced Cloud
architects and product engineering experts, in addition to :
• Experts in Python Scripting
• Cloud Platform development experts
• Cloud security experts
• Experts in IoT communication protocols like MQTT, CoAP, HTTPS
• Expertise in Cloud security management
• Front –end UI/UX Design & Development Engineers
• Software Testers
(Please contact us to know more details and success stories on IoT
Cloud App Development)

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