Internet of Things (IoT) Data Management Solutions in Building and Home Automation

In June 2017, Cisco launched the Cisco Kinetic to streamline IoT data management. Cisco Kinetic is an IoT operations platform providing integrated solutions for connection management and fog computing. It ensures data delivery for all types of IoT connected devices. Cisco Kinetic leverages the company’s IoT platform portfolio by including wired and wireless devices into the IoT system. Apart from its IoT platform portfolio, the company also offers Cisco Jasper, an IoT connectivity platform, to fulfill customer requirements in the IoT data management market.

Dell Technologies has launched new IoT products and is entering into partnerships to help customers tackle IoT deployment complexities and initiate digital transformations. Dell’s new VMware Pulse IoT center is a secure IoT infrastructure management solution that enables customers to gain complete control over their connected devices. VMware Pulse IoT center is helping customers manage, operate, scale, and protect their IoT projects. Dell offers the VMware Pulse IoT center as the preferred enterprise management and monitoring solution for Dell edge gateways. By plugging the Pulse IoT center into the new EdgeX Foundry, VMware can offer system and device management for the EdgeX Ecosystem.

In June 2015, Fujitsu launched the Fujitsu Cloud IoT platform, a new IoT data management offering. This IoT platform provides actionable insights from data captured by IoT connected devices. Fujitsu Cloud IoT platform features high-speed data processing, flexible support for configuring IoT devices, and data access management for multiple organizations. It provides efficient and real-time utilization of data insights gathered from cellular connected devices. Fujitsu also offers GlobeRanger iMotion, an IoT edgeware platform that provides a real-time holistic view of the client’s business environment.

Google offers a comprehensive set of products and services, which include cloud computing, storage and networking, big data, IoT, machine learning, identity security, and developer and management tools. The company also offers cloud platform solutions such as mobile applications, financial services, and web apps. The company also provides an IoT core service, which helps clients to manage their IoT data and devices. Google Cloud IoT Core is a fully managed service that allows enterprises to manage IoT data across devices. This managed service offers clients the infrastructure and services needed to manage IoT data using Google’s software services such as Google Cloud Dataflow, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine.

IBM’s Watson IoT platform is widely used for deploying IoT solutions for commercial clients. The Watson IoT platform helps organizations connect devices to intelligent appliances through chips. IBM’s Bluemix platform helps developers integrate IoT data with cloud-based data, also assisting in deploying IoT applications. The IBM Bluemix platform, combined with the Watson IoT platform, provides a simple yet powerful application access to IoT devices and data. This helps clients to rapidly compose analytics applications, visualization dashboards, and mobile IoT apps. IBM’s predictive maintenance and quality software helps to monitor, maintain, and optimize the IoT customers assets, operations, and supply chain.

InfluxData has three major product offerings – InfluxCloud, a fully managed service offering; InfluxEnterprise, a software that can run on premises or the cloud; and an open source time series platform. InfluxCloud and InfluxEnterprise are based on an open-source core, but they also include proprietary functionalities for projects that require high-availability, horizontal scalability, clustering, and additional production-level features. InfluxData provides a comprehensive set of tools and services to receive metrics and events data from sensors, devices, systems, machines, containers, and applications.

In March 2016, LogFuze launched its cloud based analytics platform, Horadata. It enables OEMs to delight their customers by proactively suggesting maintenance schedules. HoraData platform enables revenue generation for service providers by predictive and prescriptive analytics of OEM devices. Customers can avoid downtime and loss of productivity in a manufacturing plant by using HoraData’s predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities. The company’s areas of expertise are manufacturing, cold storage, healthcare, solar, oil and gas, and automotive. Horavue is a cloud-based IoT visualization software from LogFuze that allows enterprises to store, view, and analyze IoT data, thereby paving the way for creating innovative solutions and providing analytics.

LogMeIn offers core cloud-based services to commercial customers across the globe. The company offers the LogMeIn Gravity Service Delivery Platform, a cloud connectivity and data platform that helps establish a secure connection between remote computers and other IoT devices over the internet. It helps in managing the direct transmission of data from remotely connected devices. Additionally, LogMeIn offers legacy services such as LogMeIn Backup, LogMeIn Hamachi, and RemotelyAnywhere.

Oracle provides a comprehensive set of solutions, services, and products that include cloud, enterprise application, IT infrastructure, and database solutions. Oracle’s IoT platform provides effective solutions to address IoT scalability challenges. The IoT platform focuses on integration of data received from the sensors of different devices and components. Oracle Database Mobile Server and Oracle NoSQL Database provide reliable, flexible, secure, and scalable solutions to address IoT data ingestion and management concerns. Oracle data management solutions help in solving the IoT scalability challenges of commercial clients across the globe.

With the acquisition of ThingWorx in 2013, PTC initiated its IoT strategy. Thereafter, PTC has developed one of the most robust IoT offerings in the market, the ThingWorx IoT platform. The ThingWorx IoT platform contains a complete set of integrated IoT-specific development tools and capabilities. The platform makes it easy to develop and deliver powerful enterprise IoT solutions, which deliver transformative business value. The platform also provides the technological foundation for transforming business processes and driving better value. PTC has various IoT partners such as Betsol Software Pvt. Ltd., Capgemini Technology Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions, the Bosch Group, and Genpact International Inc. PTC’s IoT technology platform, ThingWorx, is an enterprise-ready platform that enables innovators to rapidly develop and deploy smart, connected solutions for the IoT. ThingWorx contains a set of integrated IoT-specific development tools and capabilities, which simplify solution development.

SAP offers cloud platforms, data warehouse software, and management solutions for commercial clients across the globe. The company also provides cloud analytics solutions to access the clients’ enterprise data in real time. SAP provides cloud and data platform solutions and services such as SAP HANA for managing the increasing data and databases needs of customers. The company’s in-memory data platforms help accelerate enterprise business processes, thereby delivering business intelligence with a simplified IT environment.

SAS offers an enterprise analytics platform that offers data management, data integration, and data. The company’s product portfolio offers reliable solutions, which are used for various business processes that include statistical techniques application, dynamic data collection, collected data contextualization, and dynamic content placement. The company’s unified data management software, business intelligence, and analytics environment are empowering commercial customers to overcome upcoming analytics challenges.