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IoT Platform Comparison: Six Vendors to Keep Watching in 2021

We compare some of the most exciting IoT platforms on the market right now, the ones that check all the boxes when it comes to innovation: Balena.io, Particle.io, Thingworx, Siemens Mindsphere, Adamos, and Record Evolution.

What Is an IoT Platform?

An IoT platform is the middleware and the infrastructure that enables end-users to interact with smart objects. They function as the software bridge between the hardware and application layers. The IoT platform orchestrates the movement of data between IoT devices and IoT applications, providing application-level capabilities for humans to interact with the IoT system. 

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One-Click IoT- and AI-Based Application Environment

I had the opportunity to speak with Rohit Goyal, Principal Product Marketing Manager, and Greg Smith, V.P. Product Marketing, at Nutanix about the Xi IoT rapid development environment for creating IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) apps in the cloud, which can be deployed in the cloud or at the edge. The environment is designed to alleviate friction faced by many enterprise organizations and their developers around generic cloud environments, creating complex AI models and generating meaningful IoT data.

Enterprise development teams are constantly searching for new ways to reduce friction with subpar IT systems and infrastructure. They often turn to the cloud to spin up resources. However, not all cloud resources were designed with the business logic required to solve the most immediate problems.

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Why You Should Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL for Your IoT Applications

In almost every industry, there is a digital transformation underway that is driven by IoT and Big Data. What’s important to recognize is that IoT isn’t about things; it’s about the data those things collect. Organizations rely on this data to provide better user experiences, to make smarter business decisions, and, ultimately, fuel their growth.

However, none of this is possible without a reliable database that is able to handle the massive amounts of data generated by IoT devices. Relational databases are known for being flexible, easy to work with, and mature. What they aren’t particularly known for is scale, which prompted the creation of NoSQL databases. As you may or may not already know, there are ways to overcome this disadvantage.