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by emXdem 3440 days ago
What diffirentiates your product from the thousands of other similar products? Is it the ruggedness? The temperature range the hardware can operate in? Is it all open source code?

The IoT board/industrial computer market is pretty saturated. I work in this space, solving some problems professionally. It was tempting to turn our hardware/software stack into a product in addition to the actual problem we were solving, but after doing some market research, it was clear that without significant differentiation from products already on the market we would be Yet Another IoT Industrial Grade Controller.

Especially with AWS GreenGrass/IoT and similar efforts from Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Dell and many others. There are already a ton of IoT/Industrial PCs on the market.

There is also Phoenix Contact, AdvancedTec, Siemens, ABB, Moxa, MPL...