With technological breakthroughs and developments, the Internet of Things has developed rapidly in the past two years. "Internet of Things+" has gradually replaced "Internet+" and has become the focus of attention in the industry. Many Internet of Things companies are aiming at the development direction of "Internet of Things Platform", because the platform plays a key role in the entire Internet of Things system architecture.

The Internet of Things platform can realize the integration of "management, control, and operation" of the underlying terminal equipment, provide application development and unified interfaces for the upper layer, and build an end-to-end channel for terminal equipment and services. With the further maturity of technologies such as AI artificial intelligence and machine learning, the IoT platform will provide users with more powerful business analysis functions.

According to a research report, in 2016, more than 100 brand-new IoT platforms have entered the market. By 2021, the market size will accelerate to more than US$1.5 billion. If you want to get a share of this trend, it is necessary to understand what IoT platforms include, and which IoT development platforms are currently available in China.

As we all know, the IoT end-to-end solution is an extremely large and complex project. According to the function of the IoT platform, it is mainly divided into 4 types: terminal management, connection management, application support, and business analysis.

1) Device Management Platform DMP (Device Management Platform):

The DMP platform is mainly used for remote monitoring, setting adjustments, software upgrades, system upgrades, troubleshooting, life cycle management and other functions of IoT terminals. The general device management platform DMP is integrated in the complete end-to-end M2M device management solution. The DMP platform can provide real-time gateway and application status monitoring alarm feedback, provide support for pre-processing failures, and help users realize system integration and value-added function development through open API call interfaces. All terminal device data can be stored in the cloud.

Viewmate [Smart Vending Machine] management platform belongs to DMP platform

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Digi: Industrial M2M solution expert, combines industrial equipment, modules and other products with cloud services to provide end-to-end solutions.

Nokia Impact: More than 1.5 billion devices have been managed on the IoT platform, and it has cooperated with more than 300 major government and corporate customers around the world to provide information collection, analysis and device management services for IoT devices.

2) Connection management platform CMP (ConnecTIvity Management Platform):

The CMP platform is generally applied to the operator’s network to implement IoT connection configuration and fault management, to ensure the stability of terminal networking channels, network resource usage management, connection tariff management, bill management, package changes, number/IP address/Mac resource management, To better help mobile operators manage the SIM of the Internet of Things, operator customers can also manage and control SIM cards independently and check bills independently.

Jasper platform

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Jasper: A leader in the CMP segment, and cooperates with more than 100 operators and 3,500 corporate customers worldwide. In 2016, it was acquired by Cisco for $1.4 billion in cash.

Ericsson's DCP platform: Ericsson's connection management platform, DCP, came from the acquisition of Telenor Connexion in 2011. It has always been a catcher, with significantly fewer global operators and enterprise users than Jasper.

3) Application support platform AEP (ApplicaTIon Enablement Platform):

The AEP platform is a PaaS platform that provides two major functions: application development and unified data storage, and is based on the CMP platform. Specifically, the specific functions of the AEP platform include providing a complete set of application development tools (most of which can provide graphical development tools, even without the need for developers to write code), middleware, data storage functions, business logic engines, and third-party system APIs.

ThingWorx platform

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ThingWorx is a scalable cloud platform that specializes in building and deploying IoT applications, which can be integrated with customers' business processes. Currently, more than one million smart devices are connected to the ThingWorx platform every day.

Cumulocity is a leading European AEP platform and Internet of Things solution provider. It was formerly part of Nokia Siemens Networks, a global mobile broadband professional company. It was separated in 2010 and headquartered in Germany.

4) Business Analysis Platform BAP (Business AnalyTIcs Platform):

The business analysis platform includes two major functions: basic big data analysis services and machine learning.

Big data services are mainly based on the platform after collecting various related data, classification processing, analysis and providing visual data analysis results (icons, dashboards, data reports); through real-time dynamic analysis, monitoring equipment status and giving early warning.

The platform's machine learning is to train historical data (structured and unstructured data) to generate predictive models or customers can develop their own models based on the tools provided by the platform to meet predictive, cognitive or complex analytical business logic.

GE Predix platform

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GE's IoT platform, GE Predix, a leader in the industrial Internet of Things, is a PaaS platform built on GE's data center. It provides equipment management, equipment connection, application development, data storage, security and upper-level applications. At present, GE has developed nearly 40 industrial IoT applications to mine and analyze the data transmitted from IoT devices for customers to use.

IBM, an important initiator of the Internet of Things, has built an IoT ecosystem that can realize a complete solution from the bottom platform to the upper-level business intelligence analysis. The IBM Waston IoT platform provides complete functions from device management, application development, data storage & management, and upper-level intelligent analysis.

At this stage, domestic IoT platform providers can be roughly divided into operators, cloud computing vendors, Internet giants, and start-up companies:

1. Baidu IoT access to IoT Hub

Baidu IoT Hub is a fully managed cloud service that can help establish two-way communication between devices and the cloud, while supporting five IoT scenarios including data collection, monitoring, and failure prediction of massive devices.

2. Alibaba Cloud IoT Suite

The Alibaba Cloud IoT Suite is a set of services that helps developers build secure and powerful data channels to facilitate two-way communication between terminals (such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices, or smart home appliances, etc.) and the cloud. It supports five application scenarios: device-to-cloud, cloud-to-device, device-to-cloud asynchronous request, and cross-vendor device interconnection.

3. QQ IoT

The QQ IoT platform is committed to providing core capabilities such as the QQ account system, friend relationship chain, QQ message channel, and audio and video services to partners in the fields of wearable devices, smart homes, smart vehicles, and traditional hardware, so that users and devices Linkage between equipment and equipment, equipment and services. Utilize and leverage the advantages of Tencent QQ's hundreds of millions of mobile clients and cloud services to help traditional industries achieve Internetization on a larger scale.

4. Jingdong Weilian

JD Weilian is a smart platform built by JD for future smart life. Its goal is to help smart hardware manufacturers create smart hardware products with a better experience and provide consumers with a one-stop smart product experience. It has three functions: APP connection, smart home, and smart health.

5. Gizwits IoT IoT cloud service platform and smart hardware self-service development platform

Gizwits Cloud Platform provides developers with self-service smart hardware development tools and open cloud services. Through foolish tools, continuously enhanced SDK and API service capabilities, the technical threshold for IoT hardware development is minimized, research and development costs are reduced, and developers’ product production speeds are increased, helping developers to upgrade their hardware intelligently, and better Connect and serve the final consumer.

6, Qingke Cloud FogCloud

FogCloud provides developers with convenient smart hardware access services, as well as powerful cloud services including product/APP management, message channels, and data storage. With rich cloud functions, developers do not need to spend energy on back-end processing, bottom-level construction, protocol conversion, etc., but only need to focus on the top-level applications of the product.

7. Ablecloud IoT self-service development and big data cloud platform

Ablecloud Internet of Things self-service development and big data cloud platform for IoT hardware manufacturers, providing equipment networking and management, remote viewing and control, customized cloud function development, massive hardware data storage and analysis and other infrastructures, accelerating hardware realization of intelligent networking.

8. China Mobile Internet of Things open platform OneNet

OneNET is an open and win-win device cloud platform built by China Mobile Internet of Things Co., Ltd. It provides simple cloud access, storage, calculation and display for various cross-platform Internet of Things applications and industry solutions, and quickly builds Internet of Things product applications , Reduce development costs. Possess the basic capabilities of IoT PaaS, SaaS business services, IoT data cloud, and development community services. As the PaaS layer, OneNET builds a bridge between the SaaS layer and the IaaS layer, and provides the core capabilities of the middle layer upstream and downstream respectively

Conclusion

Since the operation of the Internet of Things platform, the cultivation of the ecosystem, and the gathering of developers take a long time to accumulate, Seematel believes that if you want to enter this field, the shortcut is to merge overseas and domestic outstanding startup companies, or conduct in-depth industrial chain cooperation.

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