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Twelve years in the field: Making the right IoT investment

Industrial IoT fails far more often in execution than in technology. After 12 years and over a million connected assets, Sensolus CEO Kristoff Van Rattinghe shares the lessons learned and a practical guide to making the right investment.

Including a hands-on due diligence checklist covering batteries, hardware, connectivity, security, scalability, and more to help you ask the questions most vendor evaluations miss.

Author:

Kristoff Van Rattinghe

CEO & Co-Founder

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What’s inside?

After twelve years and over a million connected assets, one lesson stands out: industrial IoT fails far more often in execution than in technology. Sensolus CEO Kristoff Van Rattinghe shares what the field has taught him — and why operational robustness, not cost or connectivity, is the real deciding factor.

The ebook covers four pillars for industrial-grade IoT and culminates in a hands-on due diligence checklist designed to surface the blind spots most vendor evaluations miss:

Battery reality & hardware survival
Connectivity control & end-to-end security
Data reliability & proven scalability
Cloud architecture & accountability

Whether you’re evaluating your first IoT vendor or reviewing an existing deployment, this checklist helps you ask the right questions, backed by real customer references.

You will discover

Why execution beats technology

After 12 years, the biggest lesson is clear: industrial IoT fails in execution, not technology. Learn why operational robustness — not cost or connectivity — is the real differentiator.

Four pillars for industrial-grade IoT

Hardware strength, proven scalability, real accountability, and designed-for-adoption — the framework Sensolus uses to ensure solutions work in the field, not just in demos.

A due diligence checklist for vendor evaluation

Eight categories — from battery reality to cloud architecture — with pointed questions to surface the blind spots that are frequently missed during IoT evaluations.

"The true value emerges when domain experts — people who understand their supply chain inside out — can rely on asset data without questioning its quality. Only then can data be combined with process knowledge to create real insights."

— Kristoff Van Rattinghe, CEO & Co-Founder Sensolus

Make the right IoT investement

Get the lessons from twelve years of industrial IoT deployments — including a practical due diligence checklist for your next vendor evaluation.

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