On August 18, 2022, Google announced the planned discontinuation of Google IoT Core, Google’s platform for managing IoT devices and their data. This will leave many enterprises without a necessary part of their IoT systems within one year. In this article, we’ll review why Google is doing this and provide MachNation’s recommendations on what enterprises running Google IoT Core should do. There are two reasons why Google is discontinuing IoT Core. Google cancels products. This […]
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In pursuit of high-performance IoT: testing digital twin reliability
Digital twins are one of the most important and frequently discussed aspects of IoT. But some digital twins suffer from poor reliability and resilience. If you want to guarantee high reliability and resiliency in a digital twin, there are three critical IoT performance tests to run: Pushing data to the digital twin Pulling data from the digital twin Ensuring the digital twin has the proper, most recent, device status By testing these three aspects of a […]
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ALSO’s AllThingsTalk acquisition signals growing interest in SMB IoT solutions
The Swiss business-to-business marketplace operator ALSO has bought AllThingsTalk in a move MachNation believes highlights increasing potential for IoT for small and medium-businesses (SMBs). As we have previously written, large enterprises have traditionally been the early adopters of IoT solutions but the explosive growth in connected devices in recent years has enabled the development of IoT solutions for SMBs, sometimes also called small and medium enterprises (SMEs). That’s a market that AllThingsTalk, of Gent, Belgium, […]
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2019 Application Enablement (AEP) ScoreCard rates 20 vendors
Update: MachNation has published the updated 2020 IoT AEP Scorecard. MachNation announces the availability of its 2019 IoT Application Enablement Platform (AEP) ScoreCard, an in-depth rating of 20 Internet of Things (IoT) platform vendors. Executive summary (Publicly available): Full report (Client-only access): According to MachNation forecasts, worldwide IoT application enablement and device management revenue was USD 3.2 billion in 2018 growing to USD 66.0 billion by 2027 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% […]
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Recommendations for enterprises needing high-quality IoT data visualization and dashboarding capabilities
Introduction MachNation has found that very few IoT application enablement platforms (AEPs) provide best-in-class IoT data visualization and dashboarding capabilities. This leaves enterprises and service providers without a way to quickly visualize IoT asset states and associated ingested data using a productized and easily deployed solution. In this short article, we define IoT data visualization and dashboard; provide recommendations for selecting a top-quality solution; and briefly discuss 5 visualization and dashboarding vendors. Definitions According to […]
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