Introduction: The Hard Truth About IoT Ingestion for Telematics Building a reliable IoT ingestion server for telematics data isn’t about handling the first byte of data—it’s about surviving everything that comes after. In my experience with a Python-based pipeline ingesting TCP sensor data from heavy equipment, the real challenges emerged far beyond initial reception. The pipeline—Python → local disk spool → RabbitMQ → PostgreSQL—looked straightforward on paper. Reality, however, demanded a ...