Getting expertise for an ad hoc system is more obscure than getting service from an established vendor.
So who are likely users? Obviously organizations that can devote software engineering resources towards building a system to monitor ad hoc sensor systems.
So the first cost has to have a cost advantage for building over buying. And the lifetime costs of in house application maintenance have to be better than vendor service.
To put it another way, when is it low hanging fruit for software engineering resources? Including developer moral (thinking of what developers might rather be doing) and the clout of a physical plant managers to redirect engineering resources.
My comment is social and economic not technical. It is about the C-suite’s problems.
So who are likely users? Obviously organizations that can devote software engineering resources towards building a system to monitor ad hoc sensor systems.
So the first cost has to have a cost advantage for building over buying. And the lifetime costs of in house application maintenance have to be better than vendor service.
To put it another way, when is it low hanging fruit for software engineering resources? Including developer moral (thinking of what developers might rather be doing) and the clout of a physical plant managers to redirect engineering resources.
My comment is social and economic not technical. It is about the C-suite’s problems.
But I could be wrong.