IoT initiatives are unavoidably complex. Number of participants (data sources), security and data privacy issues add gravitas to even a bare bone project.

In this brief, we try to uncover device security vendor landscape for various critical touch points which generate most data, identify low maintenance, low cost alternatives to batteries (and identify key vendors) and conclude with the most progressive and secure way (currently in development) to compute and share data. We approach our research from Financial Services Institutions’ perspective but this information model could very well apply to other industries.