IoT Platforms

In my understanding, IoT industry is related to the following aspects:

• Application
• Hardware
• Networking
• Data Mining

IoT Platform

First we show the overview of some leading IoT platforms according to The 25 best IoT Platforms 2019.

• Amazon AWS IoT

  • One major claim of AWS IoT is to” Creating a ‘Thing’ Which Will Represent a Physical Device”, which can also be understand as a shadow device.

  • AWS IoT overview

  

  Figure credits: Using Alexa Skills Kit and AWS IoT to Voice Control Connected Devices

  • Pub-Sub pattern in AWS IoT

    

    Figure credits: Introduction to AWS Internet-of-Things (IoT)

• Microsoft Azure IoT

  • Azure abstract an IoT application into three parts: Things(Device), Insights(Data) and Action(Rule)

  • Azure IoT overview

    

    Figure credits: Azure IoT reference architecture

• Google Cloud

  • Google divides the system into three basic components, the device, gateway, and cloud.

  • Data management on Google Cloud:

    

    Figure credits: Overview of Internet of Things

• Alibaba IoT

  • Aliabab IoT is more like a middleware between device and Alibaba cloud.

    

    Figure credits: Architecture