Turn Sensors, Cameras & Gateways into a Billable Edge AI Pipeline.
The Edge & IoT Monetization Playbook takes raw telemetry and video streams and turns them into services: AI-powered insights, dashboards, and APIs your customers (or internal teams) can actually pay for.
What This Playbook Actually Delivers
This is not “yet another IoT architecture diagram.” It’s a practical blueprint for turning devices and edge analytics into monetizable services on top of Google Cloud and the Vapor Cloud model.
Edge Data Pipeline Patterns
Patterns for moving data from gateways, PLCs, cameras, and sensors into Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and Vertex AI — with latency and reliability in mind.
Use Case-to-Product Mapping
Templates that convert “we have these sensors” into concrete offerings like condition monitoring, loss prevention analytics, and real-time operations dashboards.
Monetization & Packaging
Guidance on packaging analytics and AI models as SKUs or service tiers: per-site, per-device, per-stream, or per-outcome.
Operational Runbooks
How to keep edge / IoT solutions healthy: monitoring patterns, rollout strategies, and upgrade paths across fleets.
Who This Is For
The Edge & IoT Monetization Playbook is designed for enterprises that already have devices in the field, but haven’t fully turned that footprint into a predictable revenue stream or operational advantage.
- Industrial, manufacturing, logistics, and utilities with significant sensor fleets.
- Retail and QSR organizations with cameras, kiosks, and in-store devices.
- Telecoms and OEMs looking to wrap services around the hardware they ship.
- Platform and product teams tasked with turning OT/IT convergence into dollars.
What’s Inside the Playbook
You get a mix of architecture, product thinking, and operational guidance.
- Reference architectures for edge-to-cloud pipelines on Google Cloud.
- Blueprints for connecting IoT data to Vertex AI for inference at edge and cloud.
- Sample dashboards and KPIs for operations, maintenance, and business stakeholders.
- Monetization worksheets for pricing, bundling, and ROI positioning.
- Rollout patterns for pilots, lighthouse sites, and fleet-wide deployments.
Engagement Options
Use the playbook as a blueprint, or bring in a Vapor Cloud Digital Leader (VCDL) to co-design and land a production-ready Edge & IoT monetization platform.
- Blueprint Only: Implement patterns with your existing OT/IT and cloud teams.
- Co-Design & First Use Cases: You pick 1–3 use cases; we help design, implement, and validate.
- Edge Platform Build-Out: Multi-use-case platform that new products can plug into.