An IoT (Internet of Things) solution is a particular practice in an organization when it needs a certain technical or structural restart. This type of solution is quite wide in the range of organizational tools involved and is required to gain extra connection in all levels of organizational structure. IoT can affect many actors from the designer and developer of innovations to managers, hardware manufacturers, developers and testers of new software. In this work, it is planned to find the main reasons for introducing this solution into the work of Petco.
Petco Health is an American pet retail company. The company also manufactures and sells pet food, groceries, toys, and specialty services. Firstly, corrections, confirmations and cancellations of financial transactions are at the heart of almost any business, and they are especially relevant in the retail environment. IoT could create a single hermetic environment for all financial transactions. Secondly, data storage is a functional requirement for Petco, so it is required to store a massive data archive in cloud storage. Thirdly, compliance with certification requirements would be conveniently supported in such a linked system (Foreman, 2019). Moreover, the authorization of each of the employees and a clear automated distribution of powers for them is conveniently supported with the help of IoT. Finally, reporting as a fundamental functional requirement for an organization can be carried out exclusively through this large-scale technological cloud storage.
The non-functional requirements for an organization are no longer about the actions it is required to perform, but about the quality and smoothness of the performance itself. Firstly, legal requirements expressing the compliance of the activities of organizations with the letter of the law can be conveniently maintained through synchronization with the IoT database (Foreman, 2019). Secondly, cloud storage is appropriate for improving the performance as a whole – however, one should choose the most profitable chain of solutions to ensure a smooth experience for the public. The third non-functional criterion requiring the installation of a meta-system is usability, ease of user interaction with the technology of choosing and purchasing a product. The fourth requirement is security, as protection of data needs hermetic systematized environment. Finally, the reliability criterion is an important non-functional requirement – depending on the quality of the hired programmers, an integrated system can be bug-free or, on the contrary, demonstrate unreliability.
The Google cloud platform is one of the most popular and reliable solutions for Petco. As part of this service, you can build a whole system of measuring applications that would rapidly process financial and retail information. Using this platform, Petco will use the software that Google IT specialists themselves use, which guarantees its reliability and efficiency. Each of the applications developed for organizing financial data and reporting can go through a test phase within the cloud before being implemented.
The business value of this implementation is obvious, as it will increase the efficiency of the company’s employees and speed up operations. The ability to quickly track any contract and transaction will create complete order in the accounting department. Automated integration with legal requirements will ensure the legal literacy of the company’s actions. The architecture of this innovation consists of several layers. The first level is sensing, which represents material objects and computer devices into which information is driven. The next layer represents an already connected network of remote computers, whose task is to distribute data. The next stage of the architecture is focused on processing data, sending it to a common center in order to organize convenient access to it later. The processed and prepared information will be available through the application – this is the last level of the architecture of this IoT system.
Reference
Foreman, P. (2019). Vulnerability management. Auerbach Publications.