Which Cloud Platform Is Ideal to Host IoT Apps?

IoT is becoming a point of discussion both in and outside of the working environment. It’s an idea that just can affect how we live in addition to how we work. Be that as it may, what precisely is the “Internet of Things” and what effect is it going to have on you, if any?

There is a great deal of complexity around IoT, however, and I need to adhere to the nuts and bolts. Loads of discussion related to technology and policies are going to happen before it reaches a stage of standardization.

How about we begin with why IoT is picking up like a storm:

Impact: Individuals vs. Organization

With IoT, you can connect anything and everything — but why do you want to connect everything. How helpful will it be as an individual when, upon starting your car from the office, your home AC gets switched on to cool your house even before you reach home?

From an organizational perspective, what if your office products were ordered automatically before they run out?

Why IoT Needs the Cloud

Gartner says by 2020, more than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things. The impact of IoT on consumers’ lives and corporate business models is rapidly increasing as the cost of “instrumenting” physical things with sensors and connecting them to other things — devices, systems, and people — continues to drop.

For IoT to work, you need a centralized system to get connected, and the cloud became that superpower for IoT innovations. The picture below defines the architecture of IoT and clearly shows how cloud platforms take center stage in all connected devices.

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Which Cloud Platforms can Support IoT?

Many platforms have made the move to support IoT innovations.

IBM Softlayer

IBM announced a $3 billion investment in a new business unit that the company hopes will position it to succeed in IoT. This investment, by some ways of counting, is even larger. This $3 billion, over four years, will be spent to:

Amazon Web Services

AWS IoT is a platform that enables you to connect devices to AWS Services and other devices, secure data and interactions, process and act upon device data, and enable applications to interact with devices even when they are offline. AWS Support IoT with features like

Digital Ocean

DigitalOcean may be much younger and smaller than the industry giants with deep pockets, but they're still giving the more established brands a run for their money. In fewer than five years, this New York-based startup has become among the most popular cloud hosting company among developers. Digital Ocean supports IoT Features like How to setup a Mosquitto MQTT Server and receive data from OwnTracks.

Microsoft Azure Cloud

The Azure IoT Suite is an integrated offering that takes advantage of all the relevant Azure capabilities to connect devices and other assets (i.e. “things”), capture the diverse and voluminous data they generate, integrate and orchestrate the flow of that data, and manage, analyze, and present it as usable information to the people who need it to make better decisions as well as intelligently automate operations. The offering, while customizable to fit the unique needs of organizations, is focused on speeding deployment of common scenarios we see across many industries, such as remote monitoring, asset management, and predictive maintenance while providing the ability to grow and scale solutions to millions of “things.” A few features include:

Google Cloud

Google built two products, which it debuted at the 2015 I/O developer conference, for three reasons:

  1. Help device makers build for IoT.
  2. Create open ecosystems.
  3. Create opportunity for services.

To address the gateway component, Google has partnered with companies like Intel to better connect devices to the Google Cloud Platform. With Google Cloud:

Every platform has something better to offer in terms of IoT. So, if you choose one platform you will loose other platform’s functionality and features. So best way to go forward is to go ahead with multicloud approach. You can read more about Multicloud and its architecture here.

 

 

 

 

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