Much of the focus on IoT from a non-consumer perspective falls on the large-scale and the big-ticket areas – smart grids, smart cities, complex industrial automation and the like. The type of IoT technology used by small businesses, most often, gets lumped in with consumer IoT – an example of this is basic building-security tech.
IoT for small business
At CES, however, Arduino rolled out a new integrated programming environment called Arduino Pro, designed to provide a flexible, easy-to-use development platform that companies without extensive in-house coding expertise can use to create their own solutions.