Focus on Services For Engineering Solutions

When hiring people for the Internet of Things, Sturdy Networks' chief technologist, Tolga Tarhan, said it was important to realize that there is a "huge focus on engineering."

Sturdy, for its part, hired engineers as part of its IoT team to build out customer engineering solutions.

"Our companies are building some product – whether it's hardware or software, the buyers are engineers, not people in the IT department," he said. "IT supports the operation, but doesn't build the actual device."