Top 50 IoT platforms in 2023

Types of IoT Platforms

Device Management

There are several key factors to consider when evaluating an Internet of Things (IoT) device management platform:

  1. Scalability: The platform should be able to support a large number of devices and handle the volume of data generated by those devices.
  2. Security: The platform should provide robust security measures to protect against cyber threats, such as data encryption and secure authentication.
  3. Ease of use: The platform should be easy to use and understand, with a user-friendly interface and clear documentation.
  4. Integration with other systems: The platform should be able to integrate with other systems and technologies, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and cloud services.
  5. Customization: The platform should be flexible and allow for customization to meet the specific needs of your organization.
  6. Support and maintenance: The platform should come with comprehensive support and maintenance options, including regular software updates and technical assistance.
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IoT Device Management Companies

Avnet IoT Connect

Avnet Silica's IoTConnect™ platform addresses all common industry needs and the challenges businesses have been facing, providing a standardized way to harness IoT so your business can quickly build smart apps and solutions on the platform, follow best practices, have a data-driven decision-making process, and extend capabilities. Through IoTConnect, you can boost efficient, better manage assets and adopt innovation faster.

Azure IoT Central

Azure IoT Central is a ready-made UX and API surface for connecting and managing devices at scale, delivering reliable data for business insights. It preassembles platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, bringing together each service beneath it for an easy-to-configure, comprehensive, and secure IoT offering.

AWS IoT Suite

AWS offers Internet of Things (IoT) services and solutions to connect and manage billions of devices. Collect, store, and analyze IoT data for industrial, consumer, commercial, and automotive workloads.

Cisco IoT Cloud Connect

Cisco IoT products and solutions help enterprises connect and monitor IoT devices, secure and automate OT operations, and compute and manage data.

Blynk IoT

Blynk platform powers low-batch manufacturers of smart home products, complex HVAC systems, agricultural equipment, and everyone in between. These companies build branded apps with no code and get the full back-end IoT infrastructure through one subscription.

ThingWorx

Industrial companies face pressing challenges that require IIoT solutions. To address a wide range of manufacturing, service, and engineering use cases, PTC has spent years innovating the ThingWorx IIoT platform.

From service to workforce efficiency and asset optimization, ThingWorx solves common challenges across different industries.

Digi Remote Manager

Digi Remote Manager® (Digi RM) is the technology platform that brings networks to the next level, allowing networks — and the people who manage them — to work smarter. It transforms a multitude of dispersed IoT devices into a dynamic, intelligent network.

Altair SmartWorks

Harness the full power of artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) with Altair’s next-generation, cloud-native enterprise data ecosystem. SmartWorks delivers dynamic tools and a collaborative environment for teams across your enterprise to solve complex problems, accelerate transformation, and drive business value.

AVEVA IIoT Platform

Alibaba IoT Cloud

Reporting & Data Routing

There are several key factors to consider when evaluating a reporting and data routing platform:

  1. Scalability: The platform should be able to handle a large volume of data and support a growing number of users and devices.
  2. Data visualization: The platform should provide clear and visually appealing charts, graphs, and other visualizations to help users understand and analyze data.
  3. Data integration: The platform should be able to integrate with a wide range of data sources, including databases, cloud services, and other applications.
  4. Customization: The platform should allow users to customize reports and data views to meet their specific needs.
  5. Security: The platform should provide robust security measures to protect against cyber threats and ensure the privacy of data.
  6. Ease of use: The platform should be easy to use, with a user-friendly interface and clear documentation.
  7. Support and maintenance: The platform should come with comprehensive support and maintenance options, including regular software updates and technical assistance.
  8. Cost: The platform should be cost-effective and offer a good value for the features and services it provides.
IoT Analytics Dashboards

Adafruit IO

The easiest way to stream, log, and interact with your data.

Grafana

Grafana is an open source solution for running data analytics, pulling up metrics that make sense of the massive amount of data & to monitor our apps with the help of cool customizable dashboards.

MyDevices

Quickly deploy enterprise-grade commercial-ready IoT sensor solutions

Datacake

Datacake is a multi purpose low code platform that requires no programming skills and minimal time to create custom IoT applications that can be brought into a white label solution at the push of a button.

ThingSpace

ThingSpace gives you all the tools to prototype, test, connect and manage your IoT devices on Verizon's secure and reliable network.

HiveMQ

HiveMQ's MQTT broker makes it easy to move data to and from connected devices in an efficient, fast and reliable manner. We make it possible to build connected products that enable new digital businesses.

Hardware & Networking

When evaluating an Internet of Things (IoT) hardware and networking platform, there are several key factors to consider:

  1. Compatibility: The platform should be compatible with the hardware and networking components you are using, such as sensors, gateways, and other devices.
  2. Scalability: The platform should be able to support a large number of devices and handle the volume of data generated by those devices.
  3. Security: The platform should provide robust security measures to protect against cyber threats, such as data encryption and secure authentication.
  4. Ease of use: The platform should be easy to use and understand, with a user-friendly interface and clear documentation.
  5. Integration with other systems: The platform should be able to integrate with other systems and technologies, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and cloud services.
  6. Customization: The platform should be flexible and allow for customization to meet the specific needs of your organization.
  7. Support and maintenance: The platform should come with comprehensive support and maintenance options, including regular software updates and technical assistance.
  8. Cost: The platform should be cost-effective and offer a good value for the features and services it provides.

Multitech

MultiTech makes products that connect you to your assets. We leverage proven, standards-based sensor and communications technologies and open architectures to bring systems and processes into the future in order to drive new revenue streams and efficiencies with actionable data.

Advantech

Advantech is a leading brand in IoT intelligent systems, Industry 4.0, machine automation, embedding computing, embedded systems, transportation, environment monitoring, power automation, retail, logistics, fleet management, healthcare IT, medical solutions, servers, industrial and network computing, video broadcasting, IP Video, 4K/8K, and customization services.

Golioth

Golioth is a straightforward commercial IoT development platform built for scale. Speed up development and increase the chances that your pilots will be put into production with a full featured platform of firmware, services & cloud management.

Particle

ThingSpeak

ThingSpeak is the open IoT platform with MATLAB analytics.

MindSphere

MindSphere® is the leading industrial IoT as a service solution.

Using advanced analytics and AI, MindSphere powers IoT solutions from the edge to the cloud with data from connected products, plants and systems to optimize operations, create better quality products and deploy new business models.

MindSphere and Industrial Edge as well the low code capabilities of Mendix will be an integral part of the newly launched Siemens Xcelerator business platform.

Digi International XBee

Wireless modules, developer tools, and software libraries

Helium IoT

Powered by the Helium Blockchain, The People’s Network represents a paradigm shift for decentralized wireless infrastructure.

Loriot

Hybrid Network Management System for Massive IoT

Hologram

Hologram is your trusted partner for connecting and monitoring IoT devices, anywhere in the world.

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