The realities within the Internet of Things Platforms Market remain very dynamic with a set of challenges and stakes that are swinging each actor.
While enterprises are figuring out what platform will
serve their needs, the IoT remains a
complex collection of technology and services for enterprises to navigate.
In effect, one can observe that, the IoT platform remains
complicated; because it provides device management, connectivity management,
application enablement/management, visualization tools and, in some cases,
analytics functionality ; and in most cases, no one vendor provides all of
these piece parts in a cohesive solution.
According to IDC, Arrayent, BugLabs, and MachineShop are among
top innovators in the Internet of Things platforms market for 2016.
For those who are unfamiliar, Arrayent
manages devices to application development and visualization as well as
providing cloud services.
BugLabs focuses on simplifying the IoT platform by
developing open source IoT solutions including: dweet.io, a data source tool
and freeboard, a data visualization tool. MachineShop
is focusing on being API-centric and services driven.