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—— 【Guide】 ——
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. The IoT Think Tank, as a full-cycle observer and information service provider in the industry, will be driven by the industry and will also feed back into industry upgrades. Since 2016, the IoT Think Tank has launched the “National IoT Industry Panorama” annually, providing practitioners with comprehensive tracking and analysis of the IoT from all perspectives, and truly practicing information symmetry in the IoT industry.
However, with the rapid upgrade of the IoT industry, the annual release of the panorama has far from met 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 more frequent “dynamic updates”;
(2) The comprehensive enterprise inclusion method will be embedded with screening criteria that meet industrial factual standards, only selecting the best;
(3) The basic information collection of IoT enterprises will be upgraded to richer and deeper information integration and processing;
(4) The focus on all sectors of the IoT industry will be upgraded to emphasize key areas and potential tracks.
The key areas that have been prioritized 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.
For the next three months starting today, we will continuously release a simplified summary of enterprise information in eight fields. If we miss any outstanding IoT enterprises due to our oversight, please contact us and share your insights.
Against the backdrop of digital transformation and intelligent manufacturing, the IoT is at the forefront of the times. The entire industry chain, including chips, sensors, modules, networks, platforms, terminal devices, system integration, and application services, is continuously expanding. The IoT platform, known as the “strategic fortress” of the IoT, is also becoming a battleground for participants in various links.
Traditional IT enterprises, telecommunications operators, telecommunications equipment manufacturers, internet companies, industrial solution providers, and new startups are all flooding in like bamboo shoots after a rain. After the peak period of excitement, the platform has entered the second half of consolidation, gradually improving its functional system based on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud computing service models, including ICP (Infrastructure Cloud Service Platform), CMP (Connection Management), DMP (Device Management Platform), AEP (Application Enablement Platform), BAP (Business Analytics Platform), etc.
This series of articles will introduce PaaS IoT platforms according to the classification method of players in four major fields, including the telecommunications field, internet field, software/system service field, and vertical field. The telecommunications field includes telecommunications operators and equipment manufacturers represented by China Mobile, Unicom, Telecom, Huawei, and H3C; the internet field includes Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Xiaomi, etc.; the software/system service field includes IBM, Microsoft, PTC, etc.; the vertical field is mainly divided into two parts, including industrial enterprises represented by SANY, GE, Siemens, and startups represented by Basic Lizi, Pao Cloud, Smart Cloud, and Tuya Smart.
| Player Field | Company Name | Platform Name |
| Telecommunications Field | China Mobile | OneNET |
| CCMP | ||
| China Unicom | Unicom IoT Platform 2.0 | |
| China Telecom | China Telecom IoT Open Platform | |
| Vodafone | GDSP | |
| Verizon | Verizon ThingSpace IoT Platform | |
| Huawei | Oceanconnect | |
| H3C | Oasis Platform | |
| ZTE | ThingxCloud | |
| Cisco | Jasper | |
| Ericsson | DCP | |
| Nokia | IMPACT | |
| Internet Field | Baidu | TianGong IoT Platform |
| Alibaba | Link IoT Platform | |
| Tencent | QQ IoT | |
| Android Things | ||
| Amazon | AWS IoT | |
| Xiaomi | Xiaomi Open Platform |
| Software/System Service Field | IBM | IBM Watson IoT Platform |
| Microsoft | Microsoft Azure | |
| Oracle | Oracle IoT Cloud Service | |
| PTC | ThingWorx | |
| SAP | Leonardo | |
| Vertical Field | SANY | Root Cloud |
| XCMG | Xrea | |
| Siemens | MindSphere | |
| GE | Predix | |
| Bosch | Bosh IoT Suite 2.0 | |
| Schneider | Ecostruxure | |
| Honeywell | Movilizer | |
| ABB | Ability | |
| Advantech | WiseCloud | |
| Haier | Haier U+ | |
| COSMOPlat | ||
| Aerospace Cloud Network | INDICS | |
| Lenovo | Lenovo Industrial IoT Platform | |
| GLA | ||
| Smart Cloud | Smart Cloud | |
| Ayla | Ayla IoT Platform | |
| Basic Lizi | Lizi Cloud | |
| Puao | Puao Cloud | |
| Smart IoT | Mixlinker | |
| Envision Energy | EnOS Energy IoT Platform | |
| Tuya Smart | Tuya Smart | |
| Yunzhiyi | Yunzhiyi IoT Cloud Platform | |
| Shanghai Qingke | FogCloud | |
| Smart Cloud Singularity | AbleCloud | |
| Little Green Onion Smart | Little Green Onion Smart IoT Platform | |
| IoT Wisdom | Kalay Cloud |
This summary will cover the telecommunications and internet fields, and subsequent articles will continue to push the latter half of the content.
Telecommunications Field
China Mobile’s OneNET and CCMP
Company: China Mobile
Name: OneNET
Website: open.iot.10086.cn
OneNET is a development cloud platform independently developed by China Mobile IoT Co., Ltd. based on the concept of openness and win-win, aimed at public services, providing easy cloud access, massive storage, computing, and big data visualization services for various cross-platform IoT applications and industry solutions, thus reducing the R&D, operation, and maintenance costs for IoT enterprises and individuals (makers), allowing them to focus more on applications and co-build an IoT ecosystem centered around the OneNET device cloud.
OneNET provides tools related to device lifecycle management, helping individuals and enterprises quickly achieve large-scale cloud management of devices; it also opens third-party interfaces to accelerate the construction of personalized application systems; at the same time, customizable “and things” APP provides a comprehensive solution for cloud, management, and terminal.
Company: China Mobile
Name: CCMP 3.0
Website: Not available
On November 25, 2017, China Mobile released the CCMP 3.0 version, the world’s largest IoT connection management platform independently developed by China Mobile over five years.
The new CCMP3.0 mainly provides five capabilities, including business operation capabilities, application integration capabilities, international business expansion capabilities, NB-IOT capabilities, and security protection capabilities. Among them, business operation, application integration, and security protection capabilities have undergone a complete core update and evolved into new business capabilities based on the 2.0 version; international business and NB-IoT are two new capabilities that provide new possibilities for enterprise customers to expand cross-border business and more rich IoT business scenarios.
China Unicom’s IoT Platform 2.0
Company: Unicom
Name: Unicom IoT Platform 2.0
Website: www.m2m10010.com
China Unicom IoT Platform 2.0 is an upgrade from the IoT connection management platform first released by China Unicom in 2015. It is an advanced cloud-based platform that provides new generation connection management capabilities to support the launch, management, and rapid expansion of connected device business or enterprise deployment. Mainly based on the new IoT platform Control Center 7.0, it provides six major capabilities to customers (1) SIM card service; (2) automated rule setting; (3) API integration; (4) device implementation diagnosis; (5) billing and report inquiry; (6) enterprise account management. In addition to the original platform, seven new functions have been added, including comprehensive security protection, business insight capabilities, collaborative application integration, low-power wide-area network support, and value-added business operation, which support the diverse business models of enterprise users while meeting their various operational needs.
China Telecom’s IoT Open Platform
Company: China Telecom
Name: China Telecom IoT Open Platform
Website: open.189.cn
The IoT open platform consists of three major sections: connection management, application enablement, and vertical services, with globalized, secure, and trustworthy end-to-end services throughout. The platform will have three major advantages: first, global connection, one point service; second, open innovation, secure and trustworthy; third, data perception, intelligent decision-making. China Telecom will rely on the IoT open platform, learn from industry experience, integrate internal resources, and work with global partners to create core competitive advantages in the industry and co-create commercial value.
The China Telecom IoT Open Platform is supported by Ericsson’s device connection platform, which was launched in 2012 and now supports over 25 operators and more than 2000 enterprise customers, and has become part of Ericsson’s IoT accelerator platform.
Vodafone’s GDSP
Company: Vodafone
Name: Global Data Service Platform, GDSP
Website: m2m.vodafone.com
The Vodafone Global Data Service Platform (GDSP) aims to provide a secure self-service platform for managing connected M2M deployments, helping enterprises manage their IoT devices anywhere in the world simply and effectively. The platform offers a complete authentication and access control mechanism, allowing authorized users to access critical information through an easy-to-use self-service portal.
The platform empowers customers with asset visualization capabilities, allowing them to control all their IoT devices on the Vodafone global network. It can track the location of assets installed with Vodafone global SIM cards, issue alerts when device status is abnormal, and provide performance and data usage reports.
Huawei’s OceanConnect
Company: Huawei
Name: Huawei OceanConnect IoT Platform
Website: developer.huawei.com/ict/cn/site-oceanconnect
The Huawei OceanConnect IoT platform is a unified open cloud platform for operators and enterprises/industries, providing an open three-layer architecture, an open connection management platform, an ICT-integrated device management platform, and a flexible application enablement platform. Through open APIs and unique Agents, it integrates various industry applications upward and connects various sensors, terminals, and gateways downward, helping operators and enterprise/industry customers achieve rapid access to various industry terminals and rapid integration of various industry applications. The Huawei OceanConnect IoT platform provides secure and controllable full connection management, enabling industry innovation and building an IoT ecosystem.
OceanConnect provides numerous industry ecosystem APIs for developers to use flexibly, including data models, device management, user management, rule processing, etc., covering various industry ecosystems such as smart homes, vehicle networks, oil and gas energy ecosystems, and smart city ecosystems. Based on the OSGi framework, the Agent supports edge computing functions, while supporting home gateways, industrial gateways, and device platforms under gateways, and also launches serialized Agent Lite, Agent IPC, Agent Tiny (deployable on Lite OS), etc., expanding the possibilities for device access of more protocols, such as Onvif cameras, Modbus devices, OPC-UA devices, etc.
H3C’s Oasis IoT Platform
Company: H3C Group
Name: Oasis IoT Platform
Website: www.h3c.com
The H3C Oasis IoT platform is a dedicated PaaS platform for IoT solutions, responsible for supporting applications above and adapting terminals below, while achieving horizontal capability integration. To achieve the above goals, the Oasis IoT platform provides data processing capabilities, application support capabilities, ecological openness capabilities, architecture adaptability (high concurrency, high reliability, self-recovery, scalability), security assurance capabilities, device management capabilities, etc.
The Oasis IoT platform inherits the architecture of the H3C Oasis platform, adopting a fully distributed, elastic, and microservice architecture based on Docker technology. The Oasis IoT platform provides some common PaaS functions, including architecture management subsystem, online development subsystem, security management subsystem, and authentication management subsystem. At the same time, based on this, it provides a series of basic IoT services, including connection management subsystem, device management subsystem, data processing subsystem, application support subsystem, and embedded IoT basic applications.
ZTE’s ThingxCloud
Company: ZTE
Name: ThingxCloud
Website: iot.zte.com.cn
On December 12, 2017, ZTE held the 2017 IoT industry summit in Shanghai, releasing the next-generation IoT platform ThingxCloud. ThingxCloud is an IoT PaaS platform born for enabling, linking applications above, linking devices below, inheriting data, empowering IoT, and assisting the ecosystem, initiating a new model of co-construction, sharing, and win-win in the IoT. Based on big data, AI, and security capabilities, it achieves device management, connection management, and application enablement management for the IoT, adapting to various communication protocols, shielding network technology differences, and making the underlying network transparent to upper-layer applications, providing terminal connection, application innovation, data sharing, operation support, integration services, and other capabilities for the IoT industry.
ZTE supports various partners in the GIA (Global IoT Alliance) alliance through the ThingxCloud ecosystem operation portal, simple, friendly, and easy-to-use IoT development tools, and rich technical materials, contributing its strength to achieve co-construction, sharing, and win-win, and create a new era of IoT.
Cisco Jasper’s Control Center
Company: Cisco
Name: Control Center
Website: www.jasper.com
In 2016, Cisco acquired all shares of Jasper for $1.4 billion, making Jasper part of Cisco Jasper, and Control Center transitioned from the telecommunications industry to the IoT. First, various access methods, such as LTE-M and NB-IOT, are aimed at the IoT; second, flexible expansion, leveraging Jasper’s global telecommunications operator resources allows easy expansion of services from one region to multiple regions or globally; lastly, comprehensive device online monitoring, management, maintenance, and automatic optimization services.
As a leader in the global CMP industry, Jasper manages IoT devices across over 550 operator networks, with more than 15,000 enterprises using the platform, and continues to expand at a rate of 1.5 million devices per month. Currently, the number of connected devices has exceeded 62 million.
Ericsson’s DCP
Company: Ericsson
Name: Ericsson Device Connection Platform, DCP
Website: www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/products/device-connection-platform
The Ericsson Device Connection Platform was acquired in 2011 from TelenorConnexion and supports operators in establishing M2M business from the perspectives of device lifecycle management connection, sales readiness, and business expansion. The platform can handle connection management, business contract management, and OSS/BSS, automating business processes between operators and enterprises, and supporting enterprises in managing their connected terminals independently. In addition to DCP, Ericsson has also developed IoT accelerator solutions, including data management, billing, terminal management, connection services, and analytics, aimed at providing engines and software development kits in terminal adaptation, data management, and application presentation and management, significantly shortening the development and deployment time of IoT applications and reducing the initial risks and costs of customer investments from CAPEX to OPEX.
It is reported that DCP has provided thousands of enterprises with on-demand self-manageable, global IoT connection management capabilities, and the innovative IoT accelerator engine supports rapid IoT application development and deployment.
Nokia’s IMPACT
Company:
Name: The Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things, IMPACT
Website: www.nokia.com
Nokia, as an innovator and enabler in the IoT, began building IoT platforms many years ago, and after years of technological accumulation and optimization of the existing network, it has formed the currently leading IoT management platform IMPACT, building an end-to-end industrial chain through the IMPACT platform. The solution architecture centered around the IMPACT IoT intelligent management platform provides operators, enterprises, and governments with an IoT solution platform for any terminal, any protocol, and any application, capable of handling data collection, event processing, device management, data analysis, and supporting security and diverse applications.
The Nokia IMPACT platform has been widely applied globally, holding the first global market share in device management, with the number of device types connected to this platform reaching 15,000, and the total number of devices reaching 1.5 billion. As of June 2017, there were 53 application cases used globally. Customers include top global operators such as Vodafone, Orange, Verizon, AT&T, KT, Airtel, and major global industry clients such as Continental and Mercedes-Benz. It has also received multiple international awards, including the 2017 Best IoT/M2M Strategic Innovation Award, the 2017 GLOMO Best Mobile Network IoT Innovation Award, the 2016 Broadband Best IoT Innovation Award, and the 2016 eTECH Industrial IoT Innovation Award.
Internet Field
Alibaba’s Link IoT Platform
Company: Alibaba
Name: Link IoT Platform
Website: iot.aliyun.com
On October 12, 2017, Alibaba Cloud officially launched the Link IoT platform at the 2017 Hangzhou Cloud Summit. This platform strategically invests in integrated enabling platforms for IoT cloud, IoT markets, and the ICA global standards alliance, promoting intelligent networks in three major fields: life, industry, and cities. Over the next five years, it will continue to invest to achieve the goal of “serving 1 million developers, solidifying 1 million IoT application solutions, linking 10 billion IoT devices, and leveraging the global IoT industry to achieve a trillion market scale.”
The platform provides various product services, including life IoT platforms, urban IoT platforms, AliOS things, IoT voice services, IoT kits, ID² device identity authentication platforms, TEE security kits, and embedded system security kits.
Tencent’s QQ IoT
Company: Tencent
Name: QQ IoT
Website: iot.open.qq.com
In October 2014, the “QQ IoT Smart Hardware Open Platform” was released, providing core capabilities such as QQ account system and relationship chain, QQ message channel capabilities, etc., to partners in the fields of wearable devices, smart homes, smart vehicles, and traditional hardware, achieving interconnection and interaction between users and devices and between devices and devices, fully utilizing and leveraging Tencent QQ’s billion mobile clients and cloud services to help traditional industries achieve internetization on a larger scale. The main advantages are innovative product capabilities, reduced R&D costs, and expanded social influence.
Baidu’s TianGong
Company: Baidu
Name: Baidu TianGong Intelligent IoT Platform
Website: cloud.baidu.com/solution/iot/index.html
Baidu TianGong is a one-stop, fully managed intelligent IoT platform that integrates Baidu ABC (AI, Big Data, Cloud). From end to cloud, from data collection, transmission, computation, storage, and presentation to analysis, TianGong provides comprehensive basic products and services. It is based on the key capabilities of “connection”, “understanding”, and “awakening”, making it easy to build various intelligent IoT applications and promote industry transformation.
Leveraging Baidu’s advantages in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, mobile services, and security, Baidu TianGong IoT cloud platform has established four major advantages: first, based on Baidu Cloud, providing full-stack services from network to middleware, from computation to storage, from big data to artificial intelligence; second, self-developed data centers spread throughout the country, abundant resources (nodes/IDC), T-level bandwidth access, providing high scalability to support rapid access of massive devices; third, supporting various protocol parsing and conversion such as Modbus and BACnet; fourth, providing the most advantageous big data analysis capabilities based on the largest server cluster in the country, quickly discovering the value of data.
Google’s Android Things
Company:Google
Name: Android Things
Website: developer.android.com/things/index.html
In December 2016, Google announced the developer preview version of the IoT operating system Android Things for the first time. The new operating system will support a range of computing platforms for IoT devices. Its predecessor was the Brillo operating system, which Google announced at the I/O developer conference on May 29, 2015. Android Things not only inherits Brillo’s functions but also includes Android Studio, Android SDK, Google Play Services, and Google Cloud Platform, familiar tools and services for Android developers. Any Android developer can now easily build smart connected devices using Android APIs and Google services.
Android Things natively supports the IoT communication protocol Weave, allowing all types of devices to connect to the cloud and interact with other services such as Google Assistant. Some IoT devices like Nest, Hue, SmartThings, WeMo, and LiFX have already come to support Weave.
Amazon’s AWS IoT
Company: Amazon
Name: AWS IoT
Website: www.amazonaws.cn/en/inbounddg-events/iot
AWS IoT solution is a fully managed cloud platform that enables connected devices to easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, process these messages, and securely route them to AWS endpoints and other devices. The AWS IoT platform supports you in connecting devices to AWS services and other devices, ensuring the security of data and interactions, processing device data and performing actions on it, and supporting applications to interact with devices even when they are offline.
Xiaomi’s IoT Developer Platform
Company: Xiaomi
Name: Xiaomi IoT Developer Platform
Website: iot.mi.com/index.html
The Xiaomi IoT Developer Platform is an open platform for the IoT (Internet of Things) field, mainly serving smart home devices, smart home appliances, smart wearable devices, smart travel devices, and other consumer smart hardware (for home use) and their developers. The Xiaomi IoT Developer Platform not only provides networking modules, cloud platforms, APP remote control, data cloud storage, OTA, user accounts, and other hardware and software services, but also offers unique resources such as open device interconnection, Xiaomi user community, Xiaomi AI control, and Xiaomi crowdfunding/Youpin Mall, helping developers create truly smart, interoperable, widely accepted, and highly active smart products. (Note: The Xiaomi IoT Developer Platform is currently only open to smart hardware companies with independent brands in mainland China, and has not yet opened to integrators, solution providers, ODM/OEM companies, module providers, and other related developer groups. At the same time, it has not yet opened to application developers and individual developers.)
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has stated: “The Xiaomi IoT platform has connected 800 smart devices from 400 partners, with the number of connected devices exceeding 85 million, making it the largest smart hardware IoT platform in the world.”
The above content is a brief introduction to the main players in the PaaS IoT platform in the telecommunications and internet fields. Subsequent articles will continue to introduce platforms in the software/system service and vertical fields. The introduction content is relatively simple and mostly completed through public information collection. If there are inaccuracies or omissions in the descriptions, please contact the editor for mutual communication! The editor will update in subsequent articles and IoT industry reports.
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