Best IoT Development Platforms
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What are IoT Development Platforms?
IoT development platforms are suites of tools that provide the software, hardware and services needed to develop and manage applications for connected devices. These platforms allow developers to access remote collection points, such as sensors or other networks, to control the devices and interact with them in real time. They also provide multiple development environments, allowing developers to develop applications with an array of languages, frameworks and protocols. IoT development platforms offer secure data storage and communication capabilities to ensure the security of data collected from connected devices. Compare and read user reviews of the best IoT Development platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Golioth
Golioth
Connect and secure devices, send sensor data to the web, update firmware over the air, and scale your fleet with our instant IoT cloud. Select hardware and connectivity that meets your needs from your preferred vendor. Use the open source Golioth Device SDK to integrate with your firmware securely. Once connected you can instantly monitor, manage, and update your devices from the Golioth console. We’re a group of industry-leading hardware, firmware, and cloud engineers. We understand the struggle to connect “sand” to the internet, so we built a better way to do just that. We’re built for the embedded developer workflow. Use the tools you’re already familiar with to build robust and reliable devices, faster. Choose from hundreds of hardware options and a variety of connectivity types, protocols, and multiple embedded RTOS providers. Golioth provides a single control plane for all your devices, whether you’re exploring an idea, or improving an existing project.Starting Price: $0 -
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Blynk
Blynk
Blynk is a low-code IoT software platform for connecting devices to the cloud, building mobile apps to remotely control and monitor them, and managing thousands of users and deployed products. It’s a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that helps businesses and individuals seamlessly progress from a prototype of a connected product to its commercial launch and further growth. Blynk provides a range of features facilitating the launch and maintenance of commercial projects, e.g. device provisioning, device management, data storage and visualization, alerts and notifications, user management with multi-level tree-like organization structures, OTA firmware updates. Blynk is hardware-agnostic which means customers can connect to the Internet any device from the broad list of supported hardware and use a suite of software products to monitor and control it.Starting Price: Free -
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AWS IoT
Amazon
There are billions of devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. With the proliferation of devices, you increasingly need solutions to connect them, and collect, store, and analyze device data. AWS has broad and deep IoT services, from the edge to the cloud. AWS IoT is the only cloud vendor to bring together data management and rich analytics in easy-to-use services designed for noisy IoT data. AWS IoT offers services for all layers of security, including preventive security mechanisms, like encryption and access control to device data, and service to continuously monitor and audit configurations. AWS brings AI and IoT together to make devices more intelligent. You can create models in the cloud and deploy them to devices where they run 2x faster compared to other offerings. Optimize operations by easily creating digital twins of real-world systems. Run analytics on volumes of IoT data easily—without building an analytics platform. -
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Particle
Particle Industries
Everything you need to power your IoT product, from device to cloud. Production-ready modules that support your use case whether it’s in an industrial environment or a constantly moving asset. All certified out of the box and integrated with device management tools for development. Don't waste your time building your own network stack. Particle provides Wi-Fi connectivity and supports LTE cellular coverage in over 150 countries using a comprehensive network of carriers. No matter your use case, the Particle IoT Command Center provides all the features and integrations you need to manage and scale your devices efficiently. Every message sent through Particle is encrypted and secure. No plaintext allowed. Our internal security practices and secure infrastructure ensures your devices - and data - remain secure. Each device is given its own private key, so unauthorized hardware can't sneak into your fleet. -
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2Smart Cloud
2Smart
A one-stop IoT device development platform with custom services for connected hardware prototyping, testing, launch, and remote management. Our mission Make the world a more pleasant place thanks to “smart” technologies. While things work for people, people have time to work on themselves. Our values: Innovations We are sure implementing innovative technologies will make the economy more efficient. And that means the economy of our country and the whole world. Passion about technology We believe that technology is here to make our life better. They save our time so we can spend it on getting better ourselves. Teamwork We love the Internet of things for this – devices can demonstrate outstanding teamwork; you just need to teach them, same as people.Starting Price: $0 -
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WolkAbout IoT Platform
WolkAbout Technology
In WolkAbout, we've built a complete IoT application enablement platform and user-friendly tools to allow system integrators, product and service providers to develop and rapidly bring industrial-grade digital applications to market. Additionally, our experienced team helps our clients with system integration and building customised apps that add value to their businesses. Our innovative spirit, deep industry insights and unmatched digital technology expertise are the foundation of everything we do. With 50+ employees and 8 centres globally, WolkAbout is transforming the value chains across industries ranging from manufacturing to oil&gas!Starting Price: $1500/month -
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Eclipse Kura
Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Kura™ is an extensible open source IoT Edge Framework based on Java/OSGi. Kura offers API access to the hardware interfaces of IoT Gateways (serial ports, GPS, watchdog, GPIOs, I2C, etc.). It features ready-to-use field protocols (including Modbus, OPC-UA, S7), an application container, and a web-based visual data flow programming to acquire data from the field, process it at the edge, and publish it to leading IoT Cloud Platforms through MQTT connectivity. The emergence of an Internet of Thing (IoT) service gateway model running modern software stacks, operating on the edge of an IoT deployment as an aggregator and controller, has opened up the possibility of enabling enterprise-level technologies to IoT gateways. Advanced software frameworks, which abstract and isolate the developer from the complexity of the hardware and the networking sub-systems, re-define the development and re-usability of integrated hardware and software solutions.Starting Price: Free -
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Altair SmartWorks
Altair
As organizations pursue their digital transformation strategy for the Internet of Things (IoT), some seek the “built-in” expertise of turn-key PaaS solutions while others want the flexibility of highly customizable offerings that adapt to their existing ecosystem. In either case, Altair SmartWorks delivers advanced IoT technology within an open-architecture environment to drive the innovation that fuels sustained competitiveness. Altair SmartWorks was built for optimal flexibility, from its extensive compatibility with third party hardware, communication technologies, and applications to its innovative licensing and global partner ecosystem. Altair SmartWorks is also integrated with Altair HyperWorks, a leading simulation platform, and Altair PBS Works’ high-performance computing cloud technology, allowing its users to implement highly scalable IoT projects and realize their digital twin strategy.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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balenaCloud
balena
Comprehensive device deployment and management infrastructure, hosted by balena. Write your image, power up, and see your fully configured device appear in your application. Preload your image with your application code for even faster startup. Iterate at web speed with familiar developer tools. Build your application in the language and distribution of your choice. Develop locally to get fast feedback. Ship updates with a single command while your devices remain online and fully functional. Microservices architecture? We support multi-container applications. Benefit from full visibility into real-time device status and activity. Organize your fleet with tags and filters. Remotely configure and troubleshoot individual devices.Starting Price: $109 per month -
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OpenBalena
balena
Use our building blocks to host your own device deployment and management server. Deploy and manage one device, or one million. Extend openBalena to fit your needs. Remotely update the software on your devices with a single command. Benefit from the power of virtualization, optimized for the edge. Access your devices regardless of their network environment. Adding devices to your fleet is a breeze. OpenBalena is a platform to deploy and manage connected devices. Devices run balenaOS, a host operating system designed for running containers on IoT devices, and are managed via the balena CLI, which you can use to configure your application containers, push updates, check status, view logs, and so forth. OpenBalena’s backend services, composed of battle-tested components that we’ve run in production on balenaCloud for years, can store device information securely and reliably, allow remote management via a built-in VPN service, and efficiently distribute container images to your devices. -
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Kaa
KaaIoT Technologies
With IoT microservices architecture baked by Kubernetes, you can scale infinitely, scale only what is needed, all with extreme performance and fault-tolerance. Stream data from your IoT devices to any data analytics system via pre-integrated Kafka channel. Change device behavior based on processing results. The company behind the platform has over 25 years of experience in IoT, Telecom and Big Data. We used all our profound knowledge to create the best IoT Platform that can serve big enterprises as well as small startups. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Out-of-box authentication & authorization for users with open OAuth2 / UMA interface. Connect and manage IoT devices via the cloud using graphical UI or REST API. Collect and visualize telemetry using a built-in dashboard or 3rd party tools like Grafana. -
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Crosser
Crosser Technologies
Analyze and act on your data in the Edge. Make Big Data small and relevant. Collect sensor data from all your assets. Connect any sensor, PLC, DCS, MES or Historian. Condition monitoring of remote assets. Industry 4.0 data collection & integration. Combine streaming and enterprise data in data flows. Use your favorite Cloud Provider or your own data center for storage of data. Bring, manage and deploy your own ML models with Crosser Edge MLOps functionality. The Crosser Edge Node is open to run any ML framework. Central resource library for your trained models in crosser cloud. Drag-and-drop for all other steps in the data pipeline. One operation to deploy ML models to any number of Edge Nodes. Self-Service Innovation powered by Crosser Flow Studio. Use a rich library of pre-built modules. Enables collaboration across teams and sites. No more dependencies on single team members. -
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Pelion IoT Connectivity
Pelion
Pelion is a leading global IoT connectivity provider, offering a comprehensive platform that enables businesses to rapidly deploy, connect, secure, and manage IoT devices across various industries. With over two decades of experience, Pelion delivers high-performance, flexible multi-carrier connectivity, ensuring maximum uptime and consistent service for even the most demanding IoT use cases. Their user-friendly connectivity management platform provides complete visibility and cost control, while dedicated technical, security, and operational expertise support customers in maximizing their IoT potential. Pelion's solutions are trusted by over 1,000 enterprises worldwide, providing access to the latest 5G, 4G/LTE, CAT-M, and NB-IoT standards across 600+ networks in more than 150 countries. -
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AWS Greengrass
Amazon
AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. With AWS IoT Greengrass, connected devices can run AWS Lambda functions, Docker containers, or both, execute predictions based on machine learning models, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices securely – even when not connected to the Internet. With AWS IoT Greengrass, you can use familiar languages and programming models to create and test your device software in the cloud, and then deploy it to your devices. AWS IoT Greengrass can be programmed to filter device data, manage the life cyle of that data on the device, and only transmit necessary information back to AWS. You can also connect to third-party applications, on-premises software, and AWS services out-of-the-box with AWS IoT Greengrass Connectors. -
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Davra IoT Platform
Davra
Davra IoT helps companies, fleet owners, OEMs, municipalities and others to define, build and rapidly bring industrial-grade IoT applications on a reliable, secure and scalable IoT platform. Get your IoT project to the market in less than 50 days. Experience an open system with integrations at its core. Reduce your IoT project cost by up to 80%. Get descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics data. Run our cloud-based streaming analytics, ML, NLP and AI algorithm at the edge of the network. Experience HTML5 dashboard visualization, advanced Geo-mapping, layout manager and much more. Get a complete developer suite with source control, versioning, full code editor and more. Provide an "asset-centric view" of IoT devices by attaching both static and dynamic attributes. Leverage a complete microservice-based design for infrastructure libraries and runtime engines. -
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Zebra Savanna
Zebra Technologies
The Zebra Savanna cloud data platform delivers actionable workflow insights, powering next-gen applications by aggregating and analyzing real-time edge data and creating systems of reality that deliver best-action guidance to workers in real-time. Zebra Savanna seamlessly connects your existing hardware, software and data ecosystems fueling business digitization and automation. Additionally, you can leverage Zebra Savanna's public, unified APIs and developer tools to build secure, scalable digital services with ease and speed. Using a value-added API layer on Zebra Savanna, Zebra Data Services provides partners and developers the ability to innovate, design and quickly deploy applications helping your customers transform their businesses, creating an ecosystem extending far beyond Zebra. Zebra Savanna serves as the foundation of a new series of enterprise applications and solutions from Zebra that will digitally transform the way companies drive performance. -
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GO+
GO+
GO+ offers development tools for companies service-providers. The platform allows to develop additional services to its business customers. Through algorithms developed by our decision to support a load with a huge number of devices at the same time. The platform will allow the service-provider does not think about the problem of creating new services for their customers. The core of the platform is an analytical decision-making engine. Granular Computing based analytical engine provides data processing and analysis with complex event processing. We use cloud-based technologies that is designed to endure business logic from real devices directly to the cloud. Scalability allows us to provide solutions in lower cost. Platform scripting engine provide developers with full-stack of dev tools to develop a highly customized IoT services regardless of industry application. The cloud-based IoT platform GO+ is built using the most advanced technology of cloud computing. -
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CloudPlugs
CloudPlugs
Create digital-twins of your devices and connect them in minutes with Edge One™, the SmartPlug™, the PicoPlug™, or with our MQTT and REST libraries. Configure, manage and update all your devices remotely. Send edge data to CloudPlugs IoT or to any IoT cloud. Develop your edge IIoT applications in any language. Quickly build dashboards and HMI’s with powerful edge and cloud visual designers. Deploy applications, containers and updates for thousands of devices with one-click through CloudPlugs IoT. Easily ingest, process and analyze edge data. Optimize and automate operations. Manage the lifecycle of your devices, applications, containers and data from a single, easy to use, central management console. We have helped our customers connect legacy DCS systems, connect data lakes and implement predictive maintenance, asset tracking and materials aging solutions in power plants. We have integrated end-to-end building management, energy management, occupancy management, etc. -
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Mainflux
Mainflux
Full stack capabilities developed as microservices containerized by Docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes. Multi-protocol support and hardware agnostic. Connect any device and any 3rd-party application. Secured connections via TLS and DTLS. Mutual TLS authentication based on X.509 certificates. Mainflux software infrastructure stack is composed of all components and microservices necessary for IoT solutions, projects or products. The IoT Platform will facilitate the interoperability of the with existing enterprise applications and other IoT solutions. Bidirectional communication (interaction) with very large number of devices and gateways, using different open protocols and data formats. Normalization of the messages for easy integration with the rest of the infrastructure. -
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Tuya
Tuya Smart
Define new standards for the smart hotel industry, provide one-stop software and hardware interconnection services, and empower customers to realize their own brand hotels and pan-business scenarios solutions quickly. Tuya's MCU low-code connection service is mainly used to create smart products with MCU master control. Tuya provides network modules that have been connected to Tuya Cloud, so that you only need to focus on product function R&D, and can develop smart products quickly and efficiently with Tuya's MCU SDK. No need to design, test, and calibrate complex radio frequency circuits. Tuya network modules and MCU SDKs facilitate the modular development to shorten the development cycle and get your product into mass production much faster. No need to replace the master control chip. Just integrate Tuya's cost-effective module on the existing hardware to create a smart product. -
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XMPro
XMPro
Improve operational excellence, reduce risk and increase asset utilization with XMPro's IoT Application Suite. XMPro integrates IoT solutions into existing business workflows to enable smarter business decision-making. The platform comes with integration capabilities to connect disparate systems securely, event stream processing for processing large volumes of data from various data sources in real-time, analytics, IoT device management, and more. -
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EnrichAI
EnrichAI
Get hold of industry-specific components, custom applications for different interfaces, third-party applications, large-scale cloud solutions and much more for your business. Get end-to-end solutions and services on your Cumulocity IoT platform, to improve your business’ visibility, implement sure-shot strategies, and build adaptive capacity for the future. Surpass the power of the human eye by leveraging our Computer Vision products. Interpret and understand the complex world of visuals, collect refined data, and accelerate business growth. Get custom turnkey software, big-data analytics solutions, develop next-gen operations and digital roadmaps, deploy scalable and interoperable solutions, and much more. -
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ClearBlade
ClearBlade
ClearBlade is driving enterprise digital transformation through Intelligent Assets. The secure “no-code” IoT Application built on ClearBlade IoT & Edge Platform delivers AI, edge-native computing, and extreme flexibility empowering operation teams to get things done fast. Maintaining aircraft requires that mechanics service airplanes on a very demanding schedule with very specific tools and equipment. Equipment on an airfield is often misplaced, lost or stolen resulting in expensive replacements, operational downtime and redundancies. ClearBlade Edges deployed to specific locations to process data from cameras, sensors, and infrastructure all streams to ClearBlade Platform to normalize and process into a common data system of record. Data integrated into Business Intelligence dashboards to offer operational insights. Rapid time to market to provide assurances that properly ensure compliance with distancing, occupancy and safety requirements. -
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Everyware Cloud
Eurotech
Everyware Cloud (EC) is an IoT Integration Platform distributed and supported by Eurotech. Based on Eclipse Kapua, Everyware Cloud offers an open and modular IoT Cloud Platform based on a micro-services architecture. Everyware Cloud provides device management, diagnostics, provisioning, remote access of IoT gateways and devices and integration services for the telemetry data. Remotely access your devices to enable remote maintenance and to provide advanced assistance on issue investigation without field visits to installation site. Trust your remote devices leveraging enterprise-class security strategies built-in to the Everyware Cloud IoT Platform. Reduce integration costs by leveraging the standards based interfaces offered by Everyware IoT. Device connectivity leverages the ISO certified standard MQTT protocol and an open language independent data payload format. -
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AT&T IoT
AT&T Business
Why shop around when you can get down to the business of accelerating your growth. AT&T Marketplace makes tracking and managing your assets easy. With instant access to powerful IoT hardware, software and solutions you can gain visibility, maximize efficiencies, improve response times and optimize asset movements. And because everything is in one place, all you have to do is click, cart and connect to build, deploy and scale game-changing data-driven concepts. AT&T IoT makes it easy to build, deploy and scale IoT solutions.
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