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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IoT Standards: Three Approaches for Application Enablement Platforms
According to MachNation, the role of an IoT Application Enablement Platform (AEP) is to enable and empower private and public sector organizations to build award-winning IoT solutions. IoT platforms seek to achieve this by providing a secure, flexible and manageable software stack that serves as the foundational framework for data, device and application management
Continue readingMore TagCumulocity and PayPal Bring Vending Machines into the 21st Century
VendMe brings vending machines into the 21st century. VendMe — an application from Cumulocity and PayPal — is a complete end-to-end telemetry and cashless payment solution that makes vending machines smarter. It is built on top of Cumulocity’s market leading Internet of Things (IoT) application enablement platform and features a unique partnership with PayPal.
Continue readingMore TagXively webinar talks IoT application platforms and IoT security
Xively’s live webinar titled, Guide to Designing Products for the Internet of Things, focused on an increasingly important area of focus in IoT: security. According to the webinar, 95% of executives surveyed see their business implementing at least one IoT solution within the next three years.
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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