Decide what to connect, why it pays, and how it scales.
Vendor-neutral IoT strategy and architecture that starts with a business KPI, not a device catalogue — and ends with a roadmap your board, your operations team and your security team can all sign.
Built for the people accountable for the outcome.
IoT Strategy & Architecture is part of PEXIVA’s Connected Operations & IoT practice, which combines all six PEXIVA core capabilities.
Intended buyers
- CIO, CTO and Chief Digital Officer
- COO and VP Operations
- Enterprise and solution architects
- Private-equity operating partners
- Product leaders planning connected offerings
What this solves.
Too many ideas, no priority
Every site and function has a connected-operations idea, but there is no shared way to compare value, feasibility and risk.
A business case built on vendor numbers
Savings estimates come from sales material rather than your own baseline, so finance does not trust them.
Platform decisions made by default
The first pilot’s tools become the enterprise standard before anyone has tested cost at fleet scale or long-term support.
Security arrives at the end
Architecture is approved, devices are bought, and only then does security review start — usually forcing a redesign.
IoT Strategy & Architecture — what’s included.
- PEXIVA-deliveredPEXIVA practitioners own and perform the work.
- PEXIVA-ledPEXIVA owns architecture, governance and delivery, with specialist contributors.
- Partner-enabledA qualified specialist delivers a defined work package under PEXIVA program governance.
Opportunity discovery
Structured workshops with operations, IT, OT and finance to surface where connected data would change a decision or a cost.
Use-case prioritization
A scoring model that weighs value, data availability, integration effort, risk and time to value.
Business case and TCO
A model built from your baseline covering devices, connectivity, cloud, data retention, support and refresh cycles.
Architecture assessment
Review of an existing or proposed design for scalability, resilience, security and operability.
Cloud and platform selection
Side-by-side evaluation of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and open-source options against your requirements.
Security and compliance planning
Threat model, identity approach and control mapping to the frameworks that apply to you.
PoC and production roadmap
Phased plan with entry and exit criteria, owners, budget ranges and decision points.
Device and site feasibility input
Hardware options, site surveys and installation feasibility where the roadmap depends on them.
PEXIVA leads solution architecture, cloud, data, applications, security and program delivery. Device engineering, controls, installation and local field services may be delivered with qualified specialist partners based on project requirements and geography.
What you receive.
- Prioritized use-case portfolio
- Baseline and KPI definition per use case
- Business case and TCO model
- Target reference architecture
- Platform selection rationale
- Security and compliance plan
- Phased PoC-to-production roadmap
How a strategy engagement runs
Frame
Agree the business outcome, constraints and decision the work must support.
Discover
Interview stakeholders, inventory assets, systems and data, and capture the baseline.
Design
Prioritize use cases, shape the reference architecture and model the economics.
Decide
Present options with trade-offs and a recommended roadmap for approval.
Where this is typically applied.
Illustrative use cases — not descriptions of specific client deployments.
Portfolio-wide connected-operations roadmap
Choosing the first three use cases across multiple plants, buildings or regions.
Rescue of a stalled pilot
Diagnosing why a PoC has not progressed and defining what production would actually require.
Connected-product strategy
Shaping the platform and service model for a product that will report usage and health.
Pre-investment technology view
Assessing the IoT estate and roadmap of an acquisition target or portfolio company.
Designed in, not bolted on.
- Threat modeling is part of the architecture, not a later review.
- Identity, update and decommissioning approaches are decided before devices are selected.
- Regulatory and data-residency constraints are captured as design inputs.
Engagement models
Common ways to start or continue this work:
- IoT Opportunity Assessment
- Architecture and Security Review
- Fixed-scope PoC
IoT Strategy & Architecture — frequently asked questions
How long does an IoT strategy engagement take?
Do you recommend a specific IoT platform?
Can you assess an architecture another vendor designed?
What if the business case does not stand up?
Start with a grounded IoT roadmap.
Book an IoT Opportunity Assessment to prioritize use cases, test the business case and agree the route to production.