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Why IoT Development Still Requires Robust Software Design Practices?
IoT systems demand software design despite multidisciplinary nature, using principles like modularity and real-time patterns to ensure reliability, security, and scalability in complex deployments.
Question
Identify if the given statement is True or False.
IoT systems are multidisciplinary and hence software design will not apply to them.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Answer
B. FALSE
Explanation
IoT systems are indeed multidisciplinary, integrating hardware, networking, embedded systems, security, and data analytics, yet software design principles fundamentally apply and are essential for architecting reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions across these domains. Core practices like modularity, abstraction, requirements engineering, testing, and patterns (e.g., MVC for dashboards, event-driven for sensors) ensure IoT software handles real-time constraints, interoperability, fault tolerance, and lifecycle management effectively. Dismissing software design would lead to chaotic, insecure, and inefficient systems, contradicting established frameworks like those in SWEBOK that explicitly cover embedded and real-time systems relevant to IoT.