Harbor Research has launched a blistering condemnation of today’s IoT platforms, branding them “a kludgy collection of yesterday’s technology and architectures that do not address the most basic development challenges.” It has dismissed the “fantastic IoT marketing stories [from platform vendors] about what their solutions can do,” as misrepresentations of a “fragmented collection of incomplete platforms, […]
IoT platforms shine in ACOMM awards
Australian IoT platforms scored two of the 12 ACOMM awards handed out at Communications Alliance’s annual dinner, and Sigfox network operator Thinxtra won the ‘Best Marketing Initiative’ award. LoRaWAN network operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) was a joint winner of the ‘Innovation SME’ award for its IoT platform (the other winner was Coevolve for […]
IoTAA launches guide to IoT platform selection
The IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA) has launched a guide to selecting an IoT platform to help governments and companies choose from the more than 400 available platforms. IoTAA chairman, John Stanton, said the guideline— created by IoTAA’s Platforms and Interoperability Workstream chaired by Geof Heydon — had been formulated to give concise and relevant guidance […]
Particle’s “most widely-used” IoT platform now enterprise-grade
Particle, which already claims to be the most widely-used IoT platform, has launched Particle Cloud, billed as an enterprise version of its IoT platform, and has partnered with Google, Microsoft, IFTTT and a number of other data and analytics cloud platforms that can help customers generate insights from the massive quantities of data produced by […]
Manufacturers missing out on potential of connected things
Incorporation of IoT functionality into manufactured goods is becoming increasingly popular but, says Forrester, most manufacturers are failing to fully exploit the potential of the data they gather from their connected products. Forrester was commissioned by Xively, the IoT platform division of LogMeIn, to survey manufacturers on their priorities and objectives for IoT-enabled connected products. […]
Buddy Platform buying IoT platform provider Zentri
ASX-listed, Seattle-based IoT company Buddy Platform (ASX: BUD) has announced its intent to buy Zentri, a provider of an IoT security and device management platform. The transaction will see Zentri shareholders receive a mix of cash and/or Buddy shares up to a maximum of 300 million Buddy shares, valuing Zentri at about $36m. The full […]
NetComm Wireless now ThingWorx certified
NetComm Wireless’ (ASX: NTC) M2M and IoT products have been certified as compliant with the ThingWorx IoT platform and the company has become a member of the ThingWorx Ready partner program. ThingWorx, a subsidiary of PTC, claims to provide “the first platform designed to efficiently build and run the applications of today’s connected world” with […]
In search of “‘mainstream” IoT
Verizon has proclaimed 2015 as the year that IoT went mainstream, and received heaps of publicity for doing so. That proclamation is based on the findings of Verizon’s State of the Market: Internet of Things 2016 report and the changes Verizon found from when it prepared the earlier State of the Market: The Internet of […]
