MachNation announces the availability of its 2020 IoT Device Management (DM) ScoreCard, an in-depth rating of 13 Internet of Things (IoT) device management platform vendors. In order to capture the key trends in the ecosystem, we completed an in-depth analysis of the following vendors: Amazon, Amplia, Arm, AVSystem, Ayla Networks, Blynk IoT, Bosch, Harman, Microsoft, Nokia, Particle, PTC, and Software AG This is MachNation’s forth year producing its highly demanded ScoreCard. Executive summary (Publicly available): […]
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IoT platform architecture updated
MachNation has published an update to our highly demanded IoT platform functional architecture. This publicly available document defines the 8 services categories and 33 microservices required by enterprises in their IoT platforms. IoT platform architecture (Publicly available): Enterprises are using this functional architecture to ensure IoT platform RFXs have the relevant product category questions create their use-case specific IoT solution architectures determine functionality gaps in current their current IoT platform product portfolio No other IoT […]
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MachNation releases Amazon AWS IoT and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge proof-of-concept evaluations
MachNation has released two proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluations: one for Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT Core and one for Microsoft Azure IoT Edge. This research effort was undertaken by MachNation to simulate the process by which an organization would deploy a successful PoC on these platforms. Each document contains MachNation’s testing methodology, a PoC architecture diagram, as well as detailed evaluations and implications for organizations on the following categories: Access Control Analytics Data Management Device Management […]
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Read MachNation’s white paper summary on the TIoTA Smart Construction Challenge
In cooperation with the Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA), MachNation has published a summary white paper on the results of the Smart Construction Challenge round 1. The round 1 winners were announced at Bosch ConnectedWorld on May 15, 2019. Summaries of all challenge participant submissions, descriptions of the winning solutions, and a write-up on leading IoT solutions for smart construction are included in the whitepaper. Free whitepaper Click here to download the free whitepaper. In the Smart […]
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3 Use Cases for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
In the two previous articles of this three-part series we discussed 7 benefits for DLT in IoT applications and profiled three IoT vendors who are already leveraging DLT in their solutions. In this piece we will be recapping some common terminology used when discussing DLT and taking an in-depth look at the various use cases for DLT across the industrial, financial and consumer sectors. DLT is the same as Blockchain…right? While the terms are often […]
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