One of the most fundamental requirements of any successful large or small IoT implementation is an effective application enablement platform. An application enablement platform (AEP) is a technology-centric offering optimized to deliver a best-of-breed, industry-agnostic, extensible middleware core for building a set of interconnected or independent IoT solutions for customers. The AEP forms the heart of an IoT solution, enabling customers to develop, deploy, operate and extend their IoT implementation. An AEP provides a common […]
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Access Control: IoT Platform Comparison from MachNation MIT-E
MachNation IoT Test Environment (MIT-E) is an IoT platform test and comparison lab run by MachNation. In MIT-E, MachNation tests, scores and summarizes the quality of platform features and usability characteristics. MachNation conducts 71 tests (referred to as tasks in MachNation nomenclature) across 9 evaluation categories. Currently tested evaluation categories include access control, analytics, comprehensive evaluation, data management, device management, event processing, external integration, monitoring and usability. This document focuses on access control. MachNation ran […]
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Whitepaper: Selecting Best in Class Platforms for IoT Device & Data Management
Far too often enterprises overlook the importance of selecting a strong IoT device management platform as a foundation for their IoT solution. IoT device management platforms provide class-leading lifecycle management capabilities to deploy, monitor, maintain, manage and update IoT devices at-scale. Today, enterprises are deploying many types of IoT solutions including remote asset tracking, preventive and predictive maintenance, transport and logistics management, factory automation and smart cities solutions. All enterprise IoT solutions benefit from the […]
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World’s First Test Lab Comparing IoT Platforms
Today MachNation, the world’s leading analyst firm researching IoT platforms and middleware, has launched MachNation IoT Test Environment (MIT-E), an IoT platform test lab. MachNation developers test IoT platforms in MIT-E and provide valuable, hands-on test data to enterprises looking to evaluate and buy IoT platform services. Enterprises are seeking actual hands-on data about the performance, features and capabilities of IoT platforms. According to MachNation research, there are over 400 IoT platforms in the market worldwide. But […]
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Impressions from Huawei Connect 2017: cloud and IoT edge
Earlier this month, MachNation attended Huawei Connect 2017 in Shanghai, China. The event is Huawei’s annual gathering bringing together customers and partners from around the world. In his keynote, Guo Ping, the Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating CEO, declared that “Huawei is determined and capable to build one of the world’s five clouds”. Huawei’s push into the cloud market is part of an effort to seek new services-based revenues outside of it’s core […]
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