Service • IoT Infrastructure Audit
Modern IoT systems fail not because of one big issue, but because of dozens of small, hidden weaknesses. At Combotto.io, I help companies uncover those weaknesses before they cause outages, data loss, or security incidents.
The IoT Infrastructure Audit is a deep technical assessment of your device → edge → gateway → cloud architecture — designed to identify reliability risks, security gaps, and observability blind spots across your entire telemetry pipeline.
20-minute intro call — clear next steps, no obligation.
End-to-end view across devices, MQTT, gateways, and cloud ingestion.
WAL buffering, retries, and SLOs that survive real-world outages.
mTLS, ACLs, and hardened gateways instead of best-effort security.
Who is this for?
This service is tailored for engineering-driven organisations that rely on connected devices and telemetry:
If you have devices sending telemetry to the cloud, this audit helps you strengthen the entire path.
Scope
Your IoT architecture is evaluated across reliability, security, and observability using a structured methodology and real-world best practices.
I do not reverse engineer firmware; the analysis is architectural.
Whether your gateway is written in Rust, Python, Java, C/C++, or something else, I review:
Deliverables
Every IoT audit delivers a structured, actionable view of your system and its risks.
1. Executive Summary (non-technical)
Clear overview of risks, priorities, and recommended actions.
2. Technical Architecture Review
End-to-end mapping of your current IoT system.
3. Security Assessment
MQTT posture, TLS/mTLS, ACLs, device authentication, gateway hardening.
4. Reliability Assessment
WAL durability, retry logic, edge-to-cloud resilience, connectivity gaps.
5. Observability Assessment
Metrics, traces, logs, alerting, readiness for on-call.
6. Risk Heatmap
Categorised by reliability, security, observability, performance, and operational risk.
7. 30-Day / 60-Day / 90-Day Roadmap
Actionable steps your team can immediately execute.
8. Optional: Hardening Sprint
2–3 week implementation sprint to address the most important findings with hands-on help.
References / Client Case Studies
A selection of case studies where the IoT Infrastructure Audit has been applied to real gateways and telemetry pipelines.
A comprehensive reliability and security audit of Combotto's secure edge IoT Gateway, identifying strengths, architectural bottlenecks, and a 90-day roadmap toward production-grade resilience.
Process
We align on scope, architecture, constraints, and business goals.
You provide diagrams, broker config, gateway repo (optional), ingestion endpoints, observability setup, and relevant logs/traces.
I analyse the system across Device, MQTT, Gateway, Cloud, Observability, and Security.
You receive the full report with severity levels, recommended actions, architecture diagrams, and roadmap.
We walk through findings together and decide on next steps.
Patterns
Here are the problems most teams don't know they have:
These are the issues that cost companies lost data, broken dashboards, and long on-call nights.
Optional add-on
After the audit, many clients continue with a 2–3 week Hardening Sprint, where I help your team implement the most important improvements.
Common sprint outcomes:
This transforms your architecture from fragile → production-ready.
Why Combotto.io?
You're not hiring a general consultant — you're hiring a specialist.
I understand IoT from electrons → firmware → gateway → cloud → analytics → observability → operations. That full-stack domain expertise is extremely rare.
If you want fewer outages, fewer data gaps, stronger security, better visibility, and a reliable edge-to-cloud architecture, an IoT Infrastructure Audit is the fastest way to get there.
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Send a quick message about your devices, data rates, and current challenges. You’ll receive a same-day reply with clear next steps.