Why ecosystems matter for the Internet of Things

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Simply put no one approach has yet produced a single truly meaningful solution for IoT.

It is fast becoming clear that there have been numerous ‘false dawns’ in IoT around Low Power Radio and Smart technologies. Each solution today has both advantages as well as disadvantages and many ‘single stack’ suppliers whilst singing their solution praises will tend to ignore the obvious downsides and weaknesses (even when faced by laws of physics!).

IoT-X aims to change that.

Ecosystems are fast becoming a fact of life for IoT, there isn’t one supplier who can adequately meet the needs of most IoT deployments. Companies offering full solutions tend to be “jack of all trades” where there is a distinct trade-off between having all the functionality in one stack and the performance of each elements within it.  This means that device manufactures are trying to provide platforms; platforms are trying their hands at devices or network and it leads to a mess of competing services none really mastering what is required for a successful easy deployment.

Technology works best when there is collaborative approach where company each brings the best they have to offer.  There are a number of emerging ecosystems in IoT at the moment, 2 of the most significant are the LoRa Alliance and ARM’s mbed, these 2 aim to make device and network deployment easy, they have given away the tools to make this happen. They are device focused and customers still need further solutions such as IaaS, PaaS and data services. IoT-X is a new ecosystem that aims to bring the best of these together alongside data services and presentation options.

IoT-X represents a radical and disruptive new approach to IoT by industry experts Stream Technologies.

Stream, a specialist service provider in M2M and IoT since 2000, working across any and all IoT and M2M sectors.

Stream’s highly technically and commercially focused team there have recently launched IoT-X a next generation Unified Access Connectivity Environment (UACE) and have put together an ecosystem of trusted partners to provide an open IoT solution architecture which brings together proven solutions to the IoT sector.

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Since June 2014 IoT-X has been connecting the IoT, utilising Stream’s extensive global APN, data network and management tools. Stream have been able to connect to things and allow easy management of solutions across the entire IoT. “We really feel that this is the year that IoT will really take off, there has been a paradigm shift is how people are thinking about M2M/IoT and it’s now more about connecting things, anything, to the internet and working with that data. M2M was always about Industrial internet and business processes where IoT is different, it has different challenges and requires more interworking parts,” states Stream’s CTO, Alan Tait.”

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