IoTReady vs Traditional System Integrators

Why Operations Teams Choose Us Over Legacy SIs

At a Glance

Aspect IoTReady Traditional System Integrators
Deployment Time Days to weeks ("solution before afternoon chai") 6-8 months minimum
Technology Stack Full-stack: In-house hardware + middleware + analytics Third-party hardware, integration challenges
Customization 20 lines of Python, operations teams can modify Months of change requests, requires developers
Approach Activity-driven, adapts to your workflows Rigid systems, forces SOP changes
Business Model Billing starts when you go live, success-aligned Billable hours, succeed before you do
Expertise Founder-led IoT pioneers, 1500+ deployments Consultants/junior developers, generalists
Scale Capability 1000s requests/sec, millions of transactions/day Struggles with scale, performance issues
Solution Library Large library of pre-built solutions, growing daily Custom development from scratch every time

Full-Stack Solution Provider

We control the entire stack—hardware, middleware, and analytics

In-House Hardware

IoTReady: We manufacture our own RFID readers, barcode scanners, sensors, and data loggers. No third-party integration headaches. Our app auto-detects make and model of any handheld RFID or barcode HHT.

Traditional SIs: Rely on third-party hardware, leading to integration challenges, finger-pointing, and support nightmares.

Purpose-Built Middleware

IoTReady: Operations Traceability Platform (OTP) with high-level primitives for traceability use cases. Built for OLTP and OLAP, handling 1000s of requests per second and millions of transactions daily.

Traditional SIs: Start from generic web/mobile frameworks or work within rigid ERP coding environments (e.g., SAP Fiori). Lack traceability primitives.

Real-Time Analytics

IoTReady: Built-in dashboards, trend analysis, and alerting. OLAP designed for millions of transactions. Operators and executives get instant insights.

Traditional SIs: Analytics often an afterthought. Slow, batch-based reporting. Requires separate BI tools and integrations.

Activity-Driven Platform vs Rigid Systems

A radical change from opinionated WMS and asset tracking systems

IoTReady: Activity-Driven Approach

Our activity types adapt to what customers are already doing and add a layer of technology to automate data collection, feedback, and traceability.

  • Adapts to your context: We map to your existing SOPs and workflows
  • No behavior changes required: Operators continue working the same way, technology layer captures data automatically
  • Instant operator feedback: Green light/red light at point of action prevents errors at source
  • High-level primitives: Identity + Quantity + Context built-in, enables rapid deployment of any traceability use case
  • Low-code customization: 20 lines of Python to adapt workflows yourself

Example: When Vedanta needed to track material movements in their aluminum smelter, we adapted to their existing receiving, storage, and production workflows—not the other way around.

Traditional SIs: Rigid, Opinionated Systems

WMS, asset tracking, and other packaged systems expect customers to change their SOPs and behaviors to fit the software.

  • Forces process changes: "The system requires you to do it this way"
  • Rigid workflows: Designed for hypothetical "best practices," not your reality
  • Dashboard-only: Operators discover mistakes after the fact, not at point of action
  • Low-level frameworks: Built from generic web/mobile frameworks or constrained by ERP environments (SAP Fiori, Oracle Forms)
  • Developer-dependent: Every workflow change requires developers and change requests

Result: Friction, adoption failures, abandoned systems. "We paid for it but don't use it."

Speed: Days vs Months

"Solution before afternoon chai" is not a marketing slogan—it's how we operate

IoTReady Timeline

  • Day 1: Discovery call, understand workflows
  • Day 2-3: Configure activity types, set up hardware
  • Day 4-7: Pilot deployment at one line/warehouse
  • Week 2-4: Scale to additional locations based on pilot results

✓ Live in days, value delivered in weeks

Traditional SI Timeline

  • Month 1-2: Requirements gathering, endless meetings
  • Month 3-5: Custom development, integration work
  • Month 6-7: Testing, bug fixes, scope creep
  • Month 8+: Go-live delays, change requests begin

✗ 6-8 months minimum, value delayed

Why We're Faster

Our traceability platform has the primitives already built. We're not starting from scratch with generic frameworks.

  • High-level primitives: Identity, Quantity, Context, Activity Types—ready to use
  • In-house hardware: No integration delays waiting for third-party vendors
  • Traceability experts: We've done this 1500+ times, we know the patterns
  • Low-code platform: Configure, don't code from scratch
  • Aligned incentives: We want you live ASAP so we start billing

Deep Expertise vs Generalist Consultants

IoTReady

  • Founder-led by IoT pioneers: Dr. Jay Warrior (HART protocol inventor), Dr. Tej Pochiraju (smallest RFID tag inventor)
  • Laser-focused on traceability: Not a services shop doing random projects. We say no to non-traceability work.
  • 1500+ live deployments: Across e-commerce (BigBasket), heavy industry (Vedanta), pharma (Sun Pharma), food (Go Desi), and more
  • 2-3 new sites online every day: We're operating at scale, this is production for us
  • Proven across industries: From fruits & vegetables to copper & aluminum—if it moves, we trace it

Traditional SIs

  • Consultants and junior developers: Often staffed with whoever is available, not specialists
  • Generalists doing everything: ERP, CRM, IoT, whatever the client pays for
  • Project-based experience: A few pilots or small deployments, rarely at scale
  • Theoretical knowledge: "Best practices" from PowerPoint, not battle-tested
  • Learning on your dime: Figuring it out as they go, you're the guinea pig

Pre-Built Solutions vs Starting from Scratch

Why reinvent the wheel when we've solved this problem hundreds of times?

IoTReady: Large Solution Library

We have a growing library of pre-built solutions from 1500+ deployments. Start with proven templates, customize as needed.

  • Pre-built activity types: GRN, picking, putaway, stock transfer, QC inspection, maintenance, production—ready to deploy
  • Industry-specific templates: E-commerce fulfillment, pharma compliance, heavy industry stores, food traceability
  • Growing daily: Every deployment adds to the library—benefit from lessons learned across industries
  • Proven patterns: These aren't theoretical—they're battle-tested at scale across diverse operations
  • Start at 80%, customize to 100%: Begin with a working solution, adapt the 20% that's unique to you
  • Instant best practices: Your deployment includes improvements from hundreds of previous implementations

Example: Need inventory audit for a cement plant? We start with proven templates from 50+ similar facilities, adapt to your specifics in days.

Traditional SIs: Custom Development Every Time

Start from scratch on every project. Build what they've built before, charge you for "custom development."

  • Reinvent the wheel: Every project starts with requirements gathering and design from zero
  • No reusable components: Even common workflows require custom development
  • Learning on your project: You pay for them to figure out what IoTReady already knows
  • Siloed knowledge: No benefit from their previous projects—each client is isolated
  • 0 to 100% custom build: Everything is "bespoke," which sounds premium but means slow and expensive
  • Theoretical best practices: Based on generic frameworks, not real-world traceability deployments

Result: You're paying for them to learn and build what they should already have. Months of development for what should be configuration.

The Compounding Advantage

Every single one of our 1500+ deployments makes the next deployment better, faster, and more reliable. Traditional SIs start from scratch every time—you don't benefit from their previous work. With IoTReady, you get the accumulated wisdom of thousands of implementations on day one.

Aligned for Your Success vs Billable Hours

IoTReady: Success-Aligned

Our billing starts when you go live and start using the system. We succeed when you succeed.

  • Focused on go-live: We want you operational ASAP
  • Recurring revenue model: We're incentivized to ensure you get ongoing value
  • Fast deployment: Shorter time to value benefits both of us
  • Support & evolution: We're with you for the long term, platform continuously improves
  • Transparent pricing: Fixed or usage-based models available, no surprise bills

If the system doesn't work for you, we don't make money. Simple as that.

Traditional SIs: Billable Hours

Their value is derived from building the solution with as many person-hours as possible. They succeed before you do.

  • Incentivized for complexity: More hours = more revenue, regardless of outcome
  • Change requests = revenue: Every modification is a new billable project
  • Project-based model: They're paid and gone, success is your problem
  • Scope creep culture: Extensions and add-ons are profit centers
  • Support as upsell: Ongoing maintenance is a separate (expensive) contract

They get paid whether the system succeeds or gets abandoned.

Multi-Technology Flexibility

IoTReady: Mix & Match Approach

Use the right technology for each use case. No vendor lock-in.

Identity Technologies

  • QR codes
  • Barcodes (1D/2D)
  • RFID (UHF, HF)
  • NFC
  • BLE beacons
  • UWB
  • GPS

Sensor Technologies

  • Weight scales
  • Temperature sensors
  • Humidity sensors
  • Vibration sensors
  • Distance sensors
  • Door sensors
  • Inductive sensors

Plus: Our app auto-detects any handheld RFID or barcode HHT by make and model—use your existing hardware or ours.

Traditional SIs: Limited, Locked-In

  • Often locked into specific hardware vendors (reseller relationships)
  • Single-technology solutions (e.g., "we're a barcode company")
  • Vendor lock-in—switching hardware requires rebuilding integrations
  • Limited flexibility to adapt as needs evolve

Built for Scale from Day One

IoTReady Architecture

  • 1000s of requests per second: Handles high-concurrency operations
  • Millions of transactions daily: Proven at scale with BigBasket, Vedanta
  • Built-in OLTP + OLAP: Real-time transactional processing + analytical queries
  • Multi-location by design: 1500+ warehouses and factories already connected
  • Cloud-native: Scales horizontally, automatic failover

Proven at Scale

  • BigBasket: Sourcing, mid-mile, last-mile operations across 100+ cities
  • Vedanta: Multiple smelter facilities processing thousands of tons daily
  • Flipkart: Temperature monitoring across 100s of cold chain warehouses
  • 2-3 new sites daily: Continuous rollout at production scale

Traditional SIs: Scale Challenges

  • Built for single-location pilots, struggle when scaling to multiple sites
  • Performance issues emerge under load—not stress-tested at scale
  • OLAP analytics often bolt-on, causing database contention
  • Each new location requires custom configuration and deployment
  • "Works in demo, fails in production"

Don't Take Our Word For It

See why operations leaders choose IoTReady over traditional system integrators

BigBasket

E-commerce Grocery - 100+ Cities

Deployed across sourcing operations, mid-mile logistics, and last-mile delivery. Automated weighment, quality checks, and WMS integration. Reduced wastage through accurate real-time tracking.

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Vedanta Aluminium

Heavy Industry - Multi-Facility

RFID-based inventory tracking with automatic SAP sync. Complete material flow from raw materials to finished goods. 40% reduction in inventory discrepancies. Central CFO dashboards across facilities.

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Go Desi

Food Manufacturing - FSSAI Compliance

Complete raw material to finished goods traceability with automatic ERPNext integration. QC inspection workflows, batch tracking for compliance. Best-in-class efficiencies and quality control.

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The Bottom Line

Choose IoTReady If You Want:

  • ✓ Live in days/weeks, not months
  • ✓ Pre-built solutions library from 1500+ deployments—start at 80%, customize to 100%
  • ✓ A platform that adapts to your workflows, not the other way around
  • ✓ Full-stack ownership—hardware, middleware, analytics
  • ✓ IoT pioneers with 1500+ proven deployments
  • ✓ Success-aligned business model (we succeed when you do)
  • ✓ Ability to modify workflows yourself without developer dependency
  • ✓ Architecture built for scale from day one
  • ✓ Technology flexibility—mix and match what works

Stick with Traditional SIs If You Want:

  • 6-8 month implementations
  • Custom development from scratch—pay for them to rebuild what they've built before
  • To change your SOPs to fit rigid software
  • Third-party hardware integration headaches
  • Generalist consultants learning on your dime
  • Billable hours regardless of success
  • Change requests for every workflow modification
  • Systems that struggle when scaling beyond pilots
  • Vendor lock-in to specific technologies

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