Time to Market vs Common Sense

Designing for the Internet of Things

Alasdair Allan
7 min readFeb 26, 2019

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This is the fifth article in a series of six on designing connected devices, the previous article in the series is “Remember the Physical Environment,” and discusses deployment issues. The next and final article is “Security is Your Job,” and talks about security and the Internet of Things. Links to all six articles can be found in the series overview.

For many startup founders coming to hardware manufacturing with a software background the time to market for a product can come as a shock…

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Alasdair Allan

Scientist, Author, Hacker, Maker, and Journalist.