Google Cloud IoT vs. Telit IoT Platform vs. V5 Systems Portable Edge Computing Unit (PECU)

I consider myself very techy and found Google Cloud IoT platform very challenging to manage. The lack of tutorials and discussions to understand how each section works is very challenging. I specifically made a connection after several hours to Google Nest to third-party integration, Home Assistant. Shortly after Google Cloud upgraded to a new version breaking the connection. This was extremely frustrating. No service should take several hours to figure out, in my opinion, if it does, the platform is doing a poor job of making it easy. I'm personally very discouraged any time I ever have to use this platform. It's very hard to find answers.

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If you need worldwide coverage with centralised management of SIM cards and services, then the Telit platform would be an excellent choice.

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• Integration with different brands of microcontrollers including the one currently used by Espresiff.
• The platform is very robust and secure.

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• Management UI is very good
• The range of API is excellent
• Price per SIM is competitive
• Worldwide coverage is very good

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• Not beginner friendly.
• Needs more tutorials and walk throughs on how to get started.
• Very complicated and unless you know what you are doing you will be lost.
• Lack of material found on how to do each section / services.

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• Ability to swap underlying providers would be good
• Support sometimes struggles with very complex issues

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Although comparisons are hateful, even more so when we are talking about leading brands where the quality of their services are indisputable, the general environment of Google was more familiar to me since I use, for example, Google Firebase on a daily basis, where part of the concepts are similar, without Without a doubt, AWS services are excellent, but it was easier for me to go through the functions of Google Cloud IoT.

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Telit is competitive on price but has a vastly better API and centralised management system than competitors. Other providers have better worldwide coverage and ability to swap networks.

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• The amount of hours to get things integrated is negative.
• The amount of hours researching how to get devices integrated is negative.
• Overall the amount of time and effort getting things working has been a negative experience.

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• Cost per SIM has reduced costs overall
• Centralised management of services has sped up development time

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