IOT

IOT – why should I care about it.

You run a small or medium size (SMB) business, and you heard about IOT. Now you wonder if you need to put up with another IT jargon. If you answer yes, you are not alone!!! Traditionally any innovation in the Information Technology is viewed with skepticism by the SMB business. IOT is no exception. IOT is one of the fastest growing segment in IT, and there are many businesses that are leveraging this now.

So, what’s IOT.

IOT is the acronym for “Internet of Things”. Basically it’s another way that technology knocks on your door (via mobile phone, computer, etc) to alert you of potential issues, so you can take corrective action before it happens. Behind the curtain, IOT is a combination of sensors, networking and computing that acts as your third eye on everything where your two eyes can’t go every day, every minute or every second.

Coming back to the question, is it relevant for Small/Medium size business. To answer that question, lets look at few potential opportunities that exists. The SMB business can capitalize on opportunity, but not all business will be a candidate to use IOT, yet.

Use case 1 - Retail store chain – Accurate Inventory is one of the important item most retailers have to deal them. When the last item is removed from the shelf, IOT can alert store associate to refill. In addition to eliminating stock out situation, this results in accurate inventory, and reduce dependency on store labor in daily stock taking.

Use case 2 - Air conditioner manufacturer / installation and servicing company – The sensor can monitor refrigerant leak, circuit faults and alert home owner and servicing company before it results in costly repairs.

Use case 3- Home security - When someone rings the door bell, send notification to the home owner, probably with an image.

Use case 4 – Fish Farm – To monitor water temperature and oxygen content

Use case 5 – Manufacturing industries – To monitor various machines and alert before break down

Now you get the idea!!! Some of your businesses could be an excellent candidate for IOT, some may not be. If your business primarily deals with equipment in remote locations, it would be a good candidate for IOT. Each business case is different, we can calculate ROI for each business case to figure out if IOT would work for you.

If you already have an idea or if you would like to explore more about IOT, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

About Us

“Land On Cloud” is a Arizona based technology company. We have more than 10 years of experience in helping clients create software products within budget and time. We have deep experience in various industries– Retail, Medical, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Real Estate, Hotel, Restaurant.Our expertise is in Custom Application Development from scratch, and customize and standard applications. We have deep expertise in building mobile applications on ios (apple devices) and android devices.

Our focus areas are:

·         New Custom Application Development

·         Customize existing standard software applications

·         Mobile App development

·         Application Support

·         Cloud Migration

Give us a call @ 480-525-3541 or send an email to info@landoncloud.com . We will take care of you. www.landoncloud.com

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Are you happy with your mobile app adoption?

Thanks for your time. In this blog, we will address why your mobile app is not performing.

Quite often businesses launch their mobile app with much fanfare, only to find out they don’t have any takers. In other situation, the consumers would have downloaded the mobile app, but quickly uninstalled or never used it. (aka first use syndrome). Do you know why.

While there are many factors that drive this behavior, there are some of the basic factors that you need to keep in mind when designing a mobile app:

1.       Know who your ideal customer is.

a.       Demographics is very important one. Don’t be too narrow or too broad in your criteria. If the criteria is too narrow, you will lose on many of your target customers. On the other hand, if it’s too broad, you will cast a wide net, and you will waste your resources chasing non target consumers.

2.       Is your product / service / information, a recurring consumption one

a.       Your offering should be reusable one. If it’s one time low value offering, don’t waste time in building an app. On the other hand, if it’s one time and high value offering, for e.g. real estate services, you would benefit from a mobile app. If your product or service can be consumed repeatedly, for e.g. haircut, massage, shopping, etc, go for a mobile app.

b.      Make sure your app has something new to offer every time the consumer logs in. This will keep the consumer motivated and interested in your product or service.

3.       Understand customer trends

a.       You may think this is no brainer, but this is one of the areas where many businesses fall short. The consumer trends are different for different target groups.  The trends for age group 40-50 with family, may not the same as 40-50 without family. Most importantly, the trend changes, and the frequency of change is different for different age groups, income levels, gender, etc. Your mobile app need to follow the trend.

b.      Consumers want convenience. They want the information when they want, where they want and how they want. Some information is best served on laptop/desktop whereas other information may be served by a mobile app. Just because you built a mobile app, don’t push all the information on the app.

4.       Security and privacy

a.       Make sure the mobile app built is secure for the application it’s built. You don’t need a 256 bit encryption for a information sharing app.

b.      Don’t ask your consumer to share information that’s not required for the mobile app. Keep it vanilla, so your consumers feel safe.

5.       Ease of use

a.       Make your mobile app easy to use. If the consumer have to click more than 3 times, you need to rethink your design. Needless to say, the app needs to run faster as well.

We can do a free assessment of your mobile app. 

Contact us at 480-525-3541 or info@landoncloud.com

About - Landoncloud

“Land On Cloud” is a Arizona based technology company. We have more than 10 years experience in helping clients create software products within budget and time. We have deep experience in various industries – Retail, Medical, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Real Estate, Hotel, Restaurant.

We can help you to customize your existing software or develop one from scratch using either Microsoft Technologies or other open source software. We have helped many enterprises to build their mobile applications on ios (apple devices) and android devices.

Our focus areas:

• New Custom Application Development
• Customize existing standard software applications
• Mobile App development
• Cloud Migration

Our difference: Lower your IT operation cost, future proof IT architecture, provide personalized attention to every project.

Contact us on email at info@landoncloud.com or phone 480-525-3541