The industrial Internet of Things doesn’t just show up in a box at the door ready to use. It takes integration to deploy IoT systems and get the maximum benefit.

That’s because IoT isn’t one thing, but many linked together in pursuit of a business objective. For example, making power consumption data more accurate and up to date may require smart meters at customers’ homes, networks to carry the data collected, and analytical software in the cloud.

“There is no full, end-to-end IoT anything out there,” Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Eugene Signorini said. That will probably always be true, even though big players like IBM and General Electric are trying to build or acquire as many parts as they can.

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