On 12 March 2015, IoT application enablement platform (AEP) vendor 2lemetry quietly announced it was acquired by Amazon. MachNation estimates Amazon bought 2lemetry for USD90 million to USD110 million. This very discreet acquisition could be one of the biggest deals for IoT enablement in 2015. MachNation has created a short research document for our clients about this acquisition.
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MachNation speaks to 520 enterprise asset managers and chemicals industry specialists
MachNation continues its focus on providing IoT insights to enterprise partners at two industry-leading events. On March 25, 2015, MachNation will present to a group of production specialists for the chemicals industry at the SAP for Chemicals conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Participants will include BASF, Benjamin Moore & Company, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, NOVA Chemicals, Sun Chemical and more. Hear MachNation speak on the future of the chemicals industry with a futuristic look at life in […]
Continue readingMore TagThe best of Apple and Google meet in IoT plug-and-play solution: Proteus case study
In 2015 MachNation expects to see a new deployment model for IoT solutions – a model where plug-and-play functionality is built into the solutions. A plug-and-play experience for IoT brings together the Google Android-type benefits of having many device types available and allowing open integrations with the Apple iOS-type benefits of solution reliability and ease-of-use. In this piece of research we discuss Proteus’ EcoCloud solution — a good example of a plug-and-play IoT solution that uses unique […]
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Update: MachNation has published the updated 2015 IoT Application Enablement Scorecard with 23 vendors. MachNation profiled 13 vendors in its 2014 IoT Application Platform ScoreCard. The IoT Application Platform space is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing pieces of the IoT technology stack. Buyers of IoT solutions and technology companies seeking IoT partners must understand this critical element of the technology stack and the best vendors in the ecosystem. Research for our IoT Application […]
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Seven (7) carriers took part in MachNation’s Next Generation IoT Carrier ScoreCard. This newly designed ScoreCard focuses on the impact that carriers will have in the IoT ecosystem: an ecosystem focused on driving IT-based technologies into the operational technology (OT) organizations of public and private sector organizations. MachNation — the only dedicated insight services and application development firm focused exclusively on IoT — has found that machine-to-machine (M2M) is a legacy concept that marginalizes carriers as the […]
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