Monday, May 2, 2016

IoT - NW

IoT Network

2015 12 01: summary of protocols - there is no clear winner for IoT network protocols at present, and different protocols will dominate in different markets for different purposes.


Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, 6LoWPAN, Thread, Wifi, Cellular, NFC, Sigfox, Neul, LoRaWAN, Ingenu, Hypercat, etc.

2015 09 15 - Orange building LoRa NW France
2016 02 20 - Ingenu takes on SigFox
2016 02 05 - KPN LoRa NW Netherlands 

2016 03 14 - Swisscom announces LoRa NW 

2016 06 03 - Atari teams with SigFox - 

2016 05 16 - LoRa Lamps from Orange -

2016 05 25 - Tele2 AB building LoRa NW in Sweden

2016 05 31 - SK Telecom / Samsung building LoRa NW in Korea

2016 06 02 - Tata building LoRa NW in India 

2016 06 10 - outline of LoRa players

2016 06 16 - Senet 100 cities in US

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

IoT - Sensors and devices

IoT sensors and devices


2016 04 29 - sensors for statis - sensors 2 year battery, zigbee, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light, get $20m funding

2016 04 29 - Intelligent USB hub


Thursday, April 14, 2016

IoT - Niche Players

Purpose

This is just an informal note of things that the uninformed (customers, investors, etc.) are likely to see in the popular press and may ask IoT ventures to comment on re things presented by Niche IoT vendors

Actility (ex France)






Greenwave (ex UK)

2016 04 16: Greenwave - UK based platform


Loriot (ex France)









Thingworkx (ex USA)

2016 04 22 - IoT platform - drag and drop UI mashups, workflow, etc

Stream Technologies (ex UK)

2016 04 21 - LoRa platform for carriers

Soracom (ex Japan)

2016 05 11 - Soracom get funding to enter USA market -





IoT - Generic Tools



Form - mobile forms solutions

iBuildApp - mobile solutions

AlphaAnywhere - mobile solutions

Eachscape - mobile solutions

App Pressmobile solutions

Viziappsmobile solutions

Appcelerator - Arrow for building APIs.

Appgyvermobile solutions - looks quite slick


IoT - Generic Players



Purpose: This is just an informal note of things that the uninformed (customers, investors, etc.) are likely to see in the popular press and may ask IoT ventures to comment on.

Apple

Amazon

Dell

2016 04 22 - Dell aim to be centric to Microsoft IoT world - a set of technologies seen as relevant in USA

Foxconn

Google

2016 04 12 - Brillo and WeaveIoT OS and open communications platform

2016 05 11 - OpenThread: an implementation of Thread



Hitachi 

HP

Huwaei

IBM

2016 04 15 - Watson IoT trial invite: offers device management, data storage, analytics etc

Microsoft

2016 04 15 - IoT starter kit: offers HW kit, Azure connection 

Samsung

2016 04 15 - Artik Cloud platform - API based device platform

2016 05 23 - IoT NW - LoRa

2026 06 21 - Samsung buy Joyent - to establish IoT cloud platform