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Undoubtedly, the deep transformation of the IoT industry in 2018 has just begun.
The quality and quantity of IoT industry chain enterprises will enter a period of comprehensive explosion. As a full-cycle observer and information service focus in the industry, the IoT Think Tank, driven by the industry, will also feedback into industrial upgrading. Since 2016, the IoT Think Tank has launched the “National IoT Industry Panorama” annually, providing practitioners with a full perspective on tracking and analysis of IoT, effectively practicing information symmetry in the IoT industry.
However, with the rapid upgrading of the IoT industry, the annual release of the panorama has far from satisfied the rapid development speed and enterprise demands. Based on the above facts, the “National IoT Industry Panorama” has decided to undergo a major revision and upgrade:
(1) The annual static report will be condensed into a shorter cycle of “dynamic updates”;
(2) The large and comprehensive enterprise inclusion method will embed screening criteria that meet industry factual standards, filtering only the best;
(3) The basic information collection of IoT enterprises will be upgraded to richer and deeper information integration and processing;
(4) The attention to the entire IoT industry sector will be upgraded to focus on key areas and potential tracks for weight distribution.
The key areas first spotlighted include: IoT chip design, cellular IoT, IoT PaaS cloud platforms, public utilities, smart security cameras, home service robots/smart speakers, asset management and tracking, smart locks.
Starting from today, within three months, we will continue to release a summary of enterprise information in eight areas. If we miss any outstanding IoT enterprises due to our oversight, please feel free to contact us and provide your guidance.
This series of articles is divided into three parts! This article is the third part.
Part One: Comprehensive Overview of IoT PaaS Platforms 2.0 (Part 1)
Part Two: Comprehensive Overview of IoT PaaS Platforms 2.0 (Part 2)
The first two parts mainly introduced the PaaS IoT platforms launched by players in communication, internet, software/system services, and some vertical fields. This part will introduce the IoT service platforms of some players in vertical and entrepreneurial fields. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!
| Player’s Field | Company Name | Platform Name |
| Vertical & Entrepreneurial Field | Gizwits | Gizwits |
| Ayla | Ayla IoT Platform | |
| Basic Lizi | Lizi Cloud | |
| Proud | Proud Cloud | |
| Smart IoT | Mixlinker | |
| Smart Cloud Singularity | AbleCloud | |
| CAS Cloud Innovation | Cloud Control | |
| Envision Energy | EnOS Energy IoT Platform | |
| Tuya Smart | Tuya Smart | |
| Cloud Intelligence Easy | Cloud Intelligence Easy IoT Cloud Platform | |
| Shanghai Qingke | FogCloud | |
| Little Onion Smart | Little Onion Smart IoT Platform | |
| IoT Wisdom | Kalay Cloud | |
| myDevice | Cayenne | |
| ZTE CLAA | MSP Multi-Service Unified Platform | |
| Particle聚科技 | LETSIOT Platform |
Vertical & Entrepreneurial Field
Gizwits
Company: Guangzhou Gizwits IoT Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: Gizwits
Website: www.gizwits.com
The Gizwits platform is a one-stop intelligent hardware development and cloud service platform launched by Gizwits IoT Company after years of industry cultivation and deep understanding of the IoT industry, aimed at individual and enterprise developers. The platform provides capabilities covering the entire lifecycle service from product definition, device-side development and debugging, application development, production testing, cloud development, operation management, and data services.
The Gizwits platform provides developers with self-service intelligent hardware development tools and open cloud services. Through user-friendly self-service tools, complete SDKs, and API service capabilities, it minimizes the technical threshold for IoT hardware development, reduces developers’ R&D costs, enhances the speed of product production, and helps developers upgrade hardware intelligence to better connect and serve end consumers.
Ayla’s IoT Platform
Company: Ayla Networks
Name: Ayla IoT Platform
Website: www.ayla.com.cn
Ayla Networks was the first in the industry to launch an agile IoT cloud platform that accelerates the development, support, and iteration of IoT products. Ayla’s end-to-end solution can connect devices, the cloud, and mobile apps, providing customers and end consumers with secure connections, big data analysis, and feature-rich user experiences.
Ayla’s Agile IoT Platform, Agile Mobile Application Development Platform, and Ayla Insights big data platform provide manufacturers with secure and reliable connectivity capabilities, offering comprehensive data feedback loops to create better products and more attractive user experiences.
Ayla’s Agile IoT Platform mainly consists of three major components: Ayla embedded modules, Ayla cloud services, and Ayla application library. This is a complete solution that allows almost any device to connect to the cloud and apps; it also includes high-quality tools and services that enable manufacturers to manage, configure, and analyze devices. Ayla enables manufacturers to focus their resources on their areas of expertise without investing in network stack development, end-to-end security, cloud services, and other foundational technologies when creating IoT products.
Ayla’s enterprise-level IoT cloud platform serves many top global enterprises, connecting building controls, HVAC, home appliances, lighting, and other devices into intelligent systems for cloud management and mobile app access anytime, anywhere.
Lizi Technology’s Lizi Cloud
Company: Basic Lizi (Beijing) Technology Development Co., Ltd.
Name: “Lizi Cloud” IoT Platform
Website: www.quarkioe.com
Basic Lizi (Beijing) Technology Development Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Lizi Technology”) was established in 2016 and is controlled by Guangdong Yitong Century Technology Co., Ltd., a listed company. It is a technology enterprise focused on IoT platform operation services. Lizi Technology has created an application enabling platform widely applicable to various industries in the Chinese market – the “Lizi Cloud” IoT platform. This platform has now formed application solutions in multiple vertical fields, including smart industry, smart agriculture, smart cities, smart healthcare, smart home, and vehicle networking.
The “Lizi Cloud” platform is an IoT application platform software designed based on cloud computing architecture. The “Lizi Cloud” platform is built on the PaaS layer, helping users achieve rapid business deployment, reducing initial resource investment, lowering operating costs, and improving users’ enterprise application building capabilities.
The “Lizi Cloud” platform enables users to quickly view and control remote assets, including homes, cars, machines, or any other assets that need management.
The “Lizi Cloud” platform provides:
1. Certified hardware kits and software libraries that users can use to connect remote assets to the cloud;
2. Device management, data visualization, and remote control functions via the network;
3. Quick customization of the above content through QuarkIoE event language rules and QuarkIoE applications;
4. Extensions of existing functions for other IT services, such as ERP or CRM systems;
5. QuarkIoE can also help users host HTML5 applications.
Proud’s ProudThink
Company: Proud Cloud Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Name: ProudThink Industrial Internet Platform
Website: www.proudsmart.com
Proud’s independently developed ProudThink industrial internet platform focuses on the service value of industrial enterprises, concentrating on smart factory operations, equipment after-service, equipment leasing, and asset security, creating an industrial internet cloud platform that supports wide device access, multi-dimensional data storage, sharing, and openness, leveraging IoT, cloud computing, and big data technologies to help customers solve the safe access, operation, and comprehensive value analysis of equipment and production lines, forming core competitiveness for enterprises and accelerating their transformation and upgrading.
With the concept of continuous improvement, ProudThink has gained significant market value in the field of industrial internet platforms, participating in the construction of multiple national IoT standards, establishing strategic partnerships with government or large institutions such as the Ministry of Commerce, Baidu, and Unigroup, and achieving seamless data connection with over 100 industrial gateways from more than 40 partner manufacturers, supporting thousands of data protocol types, while forming over 20 solutions in various sub-industries such as equipment monitoring, operation, and leasing services, and actively conducting collaborative research with industry experts and data science experts in segmented fields to provide faster, more accurate, and efficient service capabilities for value discovery in the industrial internet field.
ProudThink industrial internet platform features:
(1) Innovatively proposes the concept of four libraries: device library, access library, model library, and application library, constructing a model ecology, making it as simple as building with Lego to create business applications. Achieves the idea of rapid product implementation, helping customers complete business functions in two weeks, enabling every enterprise to quickly realize industrial internet transformation.
(2) The platform adapts to the complex access needs and business management needs of the industrial field, achieving wide access, multi-dimensional storage, device meta-models, algorithm execution frameworks, data visualization, and scenario configuration cloud innovations, and has applied for multiple software patent technologies, ensuring that the platform technology is completely independently controllable.
(3) Based on the platform’s powerful customization capabilities and the flexibility of device management models, it has built business solutions tailored to different industry applications, including equipment after-service, petrochemical, new energy, and other industry applications, rapidly constructing application solutions through platform capabilities.
Smart IoT’s Mixlinker
Company: Shenzhen Smart IoT Network Co., Ltd.
Name: Mixlinker Industrial IoT Solution
Website: www.mixlinker.com
Shenzhen Smart IoT Network Co., Ltd. (referred to as Smart IoT) is a national high-tech enterprise providing Mixlinker industrial IoT solutions. It is committed to serving manufacturing enterprises by providing two types of solutions: “Device IoT” and “Smart Industry”, helping them complete the transformation from “providing products” to “value services” and “efficient operations”, thus meeting the requirements of the Industrial 4.0 era.
Providing three major service categories:
GARDS Cloud Service:This service is the core and foundation of the entire system. It is neutral and has no industry specificity. However, this system can be tailored to specific industry characteristics, resulting in an industry-specific remote data service solution.
INDASS Data Analysis Service:INDASS is the industrial IoT data analysis service system within the Smart IoT system, providing industrial IoT data analysis services. By deeply calculating and analyzing these data, it identifies the changing patterns of data and analyzes the operational patterns of devices.
MAIRS Artificial Intelligence Service:MAIRS is an online artificial intelligence service within the data analysis service, an extension of the Smart IoT industrial IoT data analysis service system INDASS, providing risk identification for continuous operation of industrial equipment. MAIRS artificial intelligence identifies current states and predicts future possibilities based on indices, their changes, trends, and stability.
Smart Cloud Singularity’s Matrix
Company: Beijing Smart Cloud Singularity Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: Matrix
Website: www.ablecloud.com
AbleCloud was founded by Mr. Li Hailei, the former R&D head of Xiaomi Cloud Platform, and the Xiaomi Cloud Platform he led is currently serving dozens of smart hardware companies in the Xiaomi ecosystem. The company was established in 2014 and focuses on home, health, vehicle networking, and industrial smart hardware, carefully building IoT platforms and capabilities, and diligently serving industry customers and partners.
AbleCloud has launched the PaaS development platform Matrix, helping IoT enterprises quickly, flexibly, and cost-effectively realize device IoT; and launched the IoT big data analysis platform Inspire, tailored for IoT enterprises to analyze, mine, and convert the value of data related to IoT devices, users, and maintenance; and built the industry-leading IoT business operation platform Genius, assisting IoT enterprises in achieving visual remote management, refined business operations, and seamless multi-party collaboration.
CAS Cloud Innovation’s Cloud Control
Company: CAS Cloud Innovation (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: Cloud Control
Website: icloudinnov.my-odoo.com
CAS Cloud Innovation’s “Cloud Control” is an industrial internet application platform for real-time monitoring of industrial data and equipment health management. Cloud Control combines IoT, cloud computing, and big data technologies, using data as the basis, devices as nodes, processes as benchmarks, and personnel as the center, comprehensively applying IoT, voice recognition, image recognition, machine learning, AR, and other cutting-edge technologies, dedicated to providing comprehensive technical support for the full lifecycle management of industrial enterprise equipment, improving production efficiency, and reducing operational, financing, and spare parts procurement costs.
The Cloud Control platform is highly versatile and easy to deploy, successfully applied in industries such as high-speed equipment, smart fire protection, CNC machine tools, port machinery, financing leasing, smart distribution, and photovoltaic power generation.
Envision Energy’s EnOS™
Company: Envision Energy (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
Name: EnOS™
Website: www.envisioncn.com/enos
EnOS™ provides an integrated, secure, and open IoT platform for connecting devices and third-party systems to the cloud. Based on the advantages of EnOS, it can map unstructured data from daily life into domain digital models, perform real-time calculations and batch operations on data, generate operational reports, provide business value assessments, and automatically implement energy adjustments across multiple systems.
EnOS™ covers the entire link, mainly investing in edge computing and analysis, as well as device connectivity in the cloud, data, computation, and applications, and end-to-end security. EnOS™ collaborates closely with partners in chips, smart devices, communications, cloud platforms, etc. The platform has advantages such as cross-domain collaboration, end-to-end security from devices to applications, platform neutrality independent of hardware, providing overall energy solutions, and rich experience in the energy field!
Currently, it manages global energy assets of 100 GW, connects 50 million sensors and smart devices, and processes 20 PB of data annually; in the future, the platform will cover six major fields: wind energy, solar energy, traditional power generation, energy storage, electric vehicles and charging piles, industrial parks, and electricity usage.
Tuya Smart Cloud
Company: Tuya Smart
Name: Tuya Smart Cloud
Website: www.tuya.com
Tuya is a global smart platform and currently the largest voice AI interaction platform in the world, connecting the smart needs of consumers, manufacturing brands, OEM manufacturers, and retail chains, providing customers with one-stop artificial intelligence IoT solutions, covering hardware access, cloud services, and APP software development, forming a closed loop of artificial intelligence + manufacturing services.
Tuya Smart provides a complete product intelligence solution, allowing manufacturers to focus solely on the hardware itself, achieving hardware intelligence at minimal cost and maximizing product value.
The Tuya Smart platform provides 99.99% uninterrupted service assurance, global DNS & CDN acceleration, parallel architecture for easy scalability, real-time big data processing, automatic switching of availability zones, hot deployment of services, dynamic keys, HTTPS encrypted channels, and many other assurances. As of the end of November 2017, Tuya smart products have covered nearly 200 countries and regions worldwide, with over 10,000 customers and products reaching tens of millions of consumers.
Cloud Intelligence Easy’s IoT Cloud Platform
Company: Guangzhou Yunwan Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: Cloud Intelligence Easy IoT Cloud Platform
Website: www.xlink.cn
The Cloud Intelligence Easy IoT Cloud Platform aims to empower traditional enterprises with the power of IoT, with the mission of delivering out-of-the-box IoT operation platforms, packaging platform capabilities as services provided to traditional enterprises in software or SDK form, assisting traditional manufacturers in quickly transforming their products into intelligent and service-oriented ones. This allows traditional enterprises to achieve a customer-centric approach, using devices as a link to realize strong connections and strong operations. Around this goal, Cloud Intelligence Easy products are divided into four sub-platforms and over 80 service components, covering IoT device connectivity, device management, development platforms, data, and user operations.
Shanghai Qingke FogCloud
Company: Shanghai Qingke Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: FogCloud
Website: www.mxchip.com
Shanghai Qingke Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a leading provider of IoT system solutions in China, a national high-tech enterprise, and an excellent enterprise recognized as a “small giant” in Shanghai’s technology sector. Since its establishment, it has successfully developed the MOC series of IoT chips, IoT series modules, and the FogCloud cloud platform, while launching multiple integrated IoT system solutions.
FogCloud is an enterprise-level IoT cloud service platform for consumer electronics manufacturers, industrial equipment manufacturers, and integrators. It provides customers with secure and efficient access, data storage, data analysis, and other platform-level services. It allows customers to easily achieve product intelligence, reducing product development, deployment, and operational costs, providing operational efficiency, and creating new business value for customers.
The application fields of FogCloud involve smart home appliances, industrial fields, smart agriculture, smart cities, smart healthcare, etc. It has three high and three low advantages (high efficiency in development, high-speed access, high security; low cost, low risk, low threshold), providing complete solutions for consumer electronics, industrial scenarios, and integrators.
Little Onion Smart’s AIOT Platform
Company: Beijing Little Onion Smart Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: Little Onion Smart IoT AIOT Platform
Website: www.ixiaocong.com
Little Onion Smart is a high-tech company focused on IoT + artificial intelligence technology soft and hardware integrated solutions, applying IoT and AI technology to connect people, devices, content, and services, empowering industries such as smart homes, smart hotels, smart apartments, smart offices, and smart elderly care.
Little Onion Smart has built a world-class smart IoT platform, providing connectivity, artificial intelligence, big data, and open, secure platform services.
Connectivity: Supports connections and interoperability of protocols such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, NB-IoT, LoRa, KNX, Bluetooth; a highly stable, high-concurrency, millisecond-level IoT control system; supports concurrent connections of millions of devices and processing capabilities of hundreds of billions of massive data.
Artificial Intelligence:Little Onion Smart Brain enables devices to learn and operate autonomously; it achieves powerful edge computing capabilities of super gateways and implements offline AI algorithms; it builds AI-based scenarios for home security, energy management, smart environments, and home entertainment; supporting various interaction methods such as face recognition, voice control, and gesture control.
Big Data:Complete IoT massive data analysis capabilities, supporting multi-dimensional user and device data analysis; professional big data mining capabilities, user portrait analysis; capable of controlling, linking, and real-time computing rules engine for smart devices. Open: Based on the PaaS cloud architecture, it supports multi-tenant, multi-hardware, multi-App, and multi-application access; device permissions, data permissions, and application permissions are completely open; only technical support and empowerment, brand image can be fully based on third parties.
Security:It has a bank-level system security architecture design; various security technologies such as HTTPS, SSL encryption, DDoS defense, and permission control.
IoT Wisdom’s Kalay Cloud
Company: IoT Wisdom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Name: Kalay Cloud Service Platform
Website: www.throughtek.cn
IoT Wisdom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., established in 2008, is a professional IoT cloud service platform solution provider, actively committed to device connection technology and cloud service platform development. In its early days, it focused on developing easy-to-set-up and simple-to-operate device point-to-point connection technology applied to consumer image monitoring products. With the rise of the IoT wave, the demand for software connection solutions has continued to increase. IoT Wisdom, with rich experience in software and hardware integration, officially transformed into a pure software IoT company in 2012, providing professional software connection solutions. In 2014, it further launched the Kalay cloud service platform to expand its service scope for enterprise customers looking to invest in IoT development.
Kalay is the language of the Tao tribe on Orchid Island, meaning “hand-in-hand”; it also symbolizes the flexibility of the IoT Wisdom cloud platform, which can rapidly connect various smart applications across operating systems. The Kalay platform enables retailers, system integrators, consumer product manufacturers, and service providers to easily and quickly develop connected devices and establish exclusive smart product ecosystems. The Kalay platform, composed of Kalay Connect, Kalay Cloud, and Kalay Apps, helps enterprises accelerate product launch speed and develop IoT-related applications through the integration of over a hundred SOC chips.
myDevices’ Cayenne Platform and Industry Vertical Solution IoT in a Box App
Company: myDevices
Name: myDevices Cayenne Drag-and-Drop IoT Project Building Platform, IoT in a Box App IoT Package Plan
Website: www.myDevices.com
myDevices was established in July 2013, with the main investor being Semtech, and its Chinese investment partner being Dr. Peng Telecom Media Group. “Making everything interconnected easier – accelerating the development and sales of vertical IoT solutions” is the starting point of this American IoT company, which has the world’s first drag-and-drop IoT project building tool, myDevices Cayenne, with users increasing to 470,000 in two years.
To meet users’ needs for building IoT projects, myDevices has also created the Cayenne IoT Ready Program – a hardware library that includes a diverse range of devices and hundreds of access vendors, allowing users to freely arrange and combine from the hardware library to create device-compatible interactive projects by simply dragging and dropping.
Using these technologies, myDevices will launch the IoT Factory e-commerce platform in partnership with the American telecommunications group Sprint in April. Developers, system integrators, and IoT enthusiasts can directly create or purchase vertical IoT solutions through the IoT in a Box package plan provided by the platform; enterprise customers can easily choose package combinations and quickly launch products.
ZTE CLAA’s MSP
Company: ZTE CLAA Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: MSP (Multi-Service Platform) Unified Platform
Website: www.zteclaa.com
ZTE CLAA Technology Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation, officially established in Suzhou High-tech Zone on December 29, 2016. The company focuses on the research and delivery of LPWAN IoT end-to-end solutions, providing professional network planning consulting and operation and maintenance services, possessing core products, leading industry alliance standard formulation, and ecosystem platform capabilities.
MSP (Multi-Service Platform): Includes three core platforms: infiLink cloud core network platform, infiBoss network operation platform, and infiCombo application development platform.
infiLink cloud core network platform: Supports large-scale operation of the CLAA network, completing CLAA network device management and sensor connection management, providing non-licensed frequency, high-performance, and highly reliable operational network capabilities.
infiBoss network operation platform: Implements billing pricing, customer relationship management, channel relationship management, CLAA business workflow, business analysis, etc.; helps customers achieve low-cost operation management, solving their pain points while achieving industry transformation through shared construction.
infiCombo application development platform: Provides access for various devices compliant with CLAA specifications, supports various industrial control interfaces, unified database management, supports graphical configuration and presentation, cross-system linkage. Quickly configures and customizes CLAA IoT application systems to meet customers’ flexible applications.
Particle聚科技’s LETSIOT Platform
Company: Nanjing Particle聚 Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Name: Particle聚 LetsIot Platform
Website: www.letsiot.com
Particle聚 LetsIot platform mainly includes various functional modules such as device management, connection management, session management, network management, and interface management. It seamlessly integrates with third-party foundational capability platforms to provide supporting services for application businesses.
This platform is one of the earliest pioneers in the Chinese IoT industry engaged in platform research and development. After nearly six years of accumulation, it can provide platform services and application services based on IoT for agriculture, environmental protection, industry, energy, and other enterprises. Currently, it serves over 200 clients, managing over 40,000 devices, covering various innovative industry applications, leveraging network technology and sensing technology to provide customers with intelligent real-time online device monitoring, data collection, operation, management models, and methods, combined with new technologies in big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to provide unprecedented IoT value-added services.
The LETSIOT platform has fully considered the complexities of network connections in IoT, the discreteness of industry characteristics, and the fragmentation of application scenarios since its design inception, aiming to establish a highly reliable operation, low-maintenance-cost IoT platform adaptable to multiple networks and industry characteristics.
Thus, the three articles have introduced the main players in the communication field, internet field, software system service field, vertical fields, and entrepreneurial fields with a total of 52 platforms! There are still many platforms that could not be concentrated and displayed due to time and length constraints! However, the IoT Think Tank will continue to track and provide more comprehensive and detailed introductions and analyses. Please continue to follow!
Part One: Comprehensive Overview of IoT PaaS Platforms 2.0 (Part 1)
Part Two: Comprehensive Overview of IoT PaaS Platforms 2.0 (Part 2)
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