The Battle of the Platforms is an opportunity for M2M platform providers to size up against others in the industry. Eleven companies battled it out at the 2014 M2M Evolution Conference & Expo, and five are coming home with awards in their hands, recognizing platforms for Enabling Non-Platform Technology, Application Development, Provisioning Solution, Vertical Platform and Horizontal Platform.
“The amount of demonstrations at the awards that were in real-time involved multiple devices and provided true analytics was truly impressive,” said Carl Ford, CEO of Crossfire Media. “We had a lot of new entrants to the Battle of the Platforms, indicative of the M2M ecosystem growth. In some cases, these are companies that came from vertical marketplaces that didn’t think of themselves as M2M but now realize M2M is a great way for them to explore new opportunities and show their relevance for existing marketplaces.”
Enabling Non Platform Technology: Xively
This award was given to the platform that provides tools for analytic and support for multiple platforms. Xively is comprised of three different components: Platform, services and partners. It offers an open-standard API and libraries that connect thousands of platforms. The workbench allows users to see communication through secure channels and troubleshoot that centrally. Its remote access technology enables IP connections, and then draws communication together to a managed peer-to-peer (P2P) connection, offering a whole new level of scalability. Chad Jones, VP of product strategy at Xively, explained that the company is helping build for an interconnected future – users can share APIs, security, object directory and grouping capabilities and communicate with two different devices securely...Read More
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