IoT Maturity Model (IoTMM) is a qualitative method to gauge the growth and increasing impact of IoT capabilities in an IT environment from both business and technology perspectives. It comprises a set of criteria, parameters and factors that can be used to describe and measure the effectiveness of the IoT adoption and implementation.
There are 5 levels of maturity defined: Advanced, Dynamic, Optimized, Primitive, and Tentative (ADOPT). The definitions of these 5 levels are specified below:
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Level
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Description
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Primitive
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initial stage of disengaged activities in an unorganized fashion
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Tentative
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ad-hoc
experiments of trial and error with some level of connectivity
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Advanced
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comprehensive framework and lifecycle for effective execution
and service management
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Dynamic
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sophisticated
analytics and consistent operationalization by means of architecture
disciplines and best-practice patterns
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Optimized
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converged platform and unified technical stack with a repeatable
process and policy-driven codification
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The IoTMM is characterized as follows.
- Primitive
- Siloed sensors
- Isolated M2M applications
- Limited functions
- Tentative
- Connected devices
- Units inter-communicated
- Lightweight protocols
- Advanced
- Managed services
- Secured remote management
- Reliable quality of services
- Dynamic
- Smart decision
- Contextual analytics applied
- Harvest of knowledge and insights
- Optimized
- Converged tech
- Interplay with other disciplines
- Unified intelligent solutions
The key enablers for each level are:
- Primitive: Sensor, embedded units, RFID, Transcends, fosstrak, OpenPCD, OpenBeacon
- Tentative: Wearables, MQTT, XMPP, Zigbee, AllJoyn, KAA, ThingSpeak, Mango, Contiki
- Advanced: Remote access, cloud, CRM/ERP/PLM integration, OpenRemote, Freeboard
- Dynamic: Dashboard, visualization, data mining, statistical modeling, Hadoop, R
- Optimized: SMAC+, Rule engine, APIs, web services, machine learning, AI, Spark, Storm
The use of IoTMM allows a company to evaluate its methods, processes and operations, against a clear set of objective benchmarks in alignment with industry standards and best practices. The maturity is measured by the match to a particular maturity level. IoTMM facilitates an in-depth analysis of a firm, which is usually performed by seasoned practitioners. A comprehensive maturity assessment will help an organization understand the barriers in the current state and identify opportunities of improvement and growth, followed by the strategy formulation for incremental adoption and iterative evolution of IoT to pragmatically transform to the target state.
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