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| Supplier Slogan | | | | Embedded for Leaders | Imagine. Build. Succeed. | | IoT Connectivity Delivered. | The Future Is Now. | |
| HQ Location | Switzerland | Ireland | Spain | Sweden | Italy | United Kingdom | United States | United States | Denmark |
| Year Founded | 2017 | 2016 | 1989 | 1968 | 1992 | 2004 | 2013 | 2008 | 1999 |
| Company Type | Private | Private | Private | Public | Public | Private | Private | Private | Private |
| Stock Ticker | | | | STO: ENEA | BIT: ETH | | | | |
| Revenue | < $10m | < $10m | < $10m | $10-100m | $10-100m | < $10m | < $10m | < $10m | < $10m |
| Employees | 11 - 50 | < 10 | < 10 | 201 - 1,000 | 201 - 1,000 | 11 - 50 | 11 - 50 | < 10 | 11 - 50 |
| Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
| Twitter Handle | | | @advanticsys | @EneaAB | @EurotechFan | @emulate3d | @LinkLabsInc | @RethinkRobotics | @Secomea |
| Company Description | Thingstream is a leading provider of IoT Communication-as-a-Service for the Internet of Things applications. Thingstream’s intelligent Global Communication Platform provides low power, low cost, ubiquitous IoT communication via MQTT and works in over 190 countries already today. The secure, out-of-the-box IoT communication solution leverages the globally-available GSM network to offer immediate, global IoT connectivity that no other low power connectivity provider can today. Thingstream specialises in helping simplify IoT communication, reducing costs and operational overheads in the delivery of an intelligent network of connected things. | At SmartFactory, they help identify hidden losses, thus reducing planned and unplanned downtime, increasing productivity and maximising efficiency. Their Smart Factory solutions reduce the amount of resources required to gather and communicate critical information across an organisation and dynamically translate this data into actionable intelligence. Their own solutions are complemented by the industry proven technology of their hardware partners Siemens and TurckBanner. | Advanticsys creates monitoring and control products and solutions that improve processes and services in areas such as energy, agriculture and environment in a global marketplace.
Year founded: 2009
Revenue: $1 - 10 million (2014 est.) | ENEA offers operating system solutions including development tools, network protocols, databases and middleware for connected devices and is the world’s third-largest player in the emerging field of real-time operating systems.
Year founded: 1968
Revenue: $50 million (2014)
STO: ENEA | Eurotech is a global company focusing on embedded computers and Pervasive Computing, which combines three key factors: the miniaturisation of computers capable of processing information; their spread in the real world - in buildings and machinery, on board vehicles, on persons and in the environment; and their ability to network and communicate. Year founded: 1992 Revenue: $69 million (2014) BIT: ETH | Emulate3D develops cost-effective software products that facilitate the demonstration, understanding, and sale of Automated Material Handling Systems, and their efficient market deployment, support and maintenance.
Year founded: 2004 | Link Labs is a leading innovator in Low-Power, Wide-Area Network technologies that power the Internet of Things (IoT). Their patented Symphony technology provides secure two-way, end-to-end connectivity and extends the operating life of Internet-connected devices, saving customers significant time and money when deploying and managing IoT applications.
Year founded: 2014 | Rethink Robotics is a new kind of robotics company, and their mission is to create a new kind of manufacturing robot. One that introduces robotics into processes that manufacturers have never been able to cost-effectively automate. One that uses common sense to perform a wide range of tasks and vastly improve productivity. And one that safely works side by side with its human counterparts, who are able to train it with no programming or engineering expertise.
Year founded: 2008 | Secomea is a privately owned Danish company and one of the market leaders on Office Network Security. Over the years, Secomea has built a strong line of Firewall/VPN and Remote Device Management solutions with a unique emphasis on making the solutions easy to install, setup and use. Year founded: 2008 |
| IoT Solutions | MQTT ANYWHERE A SIM-based Low Power Wide Area IoT communication service. This IoT communication service operates across 600+ GSM carriers in 190 countries around the world without the need for cellular data. Supporting 2G, 3G, LTE and LTE-M, MQTT Anywhere can be used within any type of IoT device to send and receive MQTT-SN messages using either USSD or UDP protocols as a transport mechanism. MQTT HERE A LoRaWAN cloud infrastructure providing control over device traffic by converting UDP traffic to MQTT. MQTT Here removes the complexity of harvesting data from a private LoRaWAN network and makes it easy to get the data into enterprise systems. A key benefit of using MQTT Here is the ability to capture traffic from a LoRaWAN gateway in minutes and manage it as MQTT messages. Our carrier grade MQTT Broker then prepares your messages to pass into 3rd party enterprise systems and IoT platforms. Thingstream is a member of the LoRaWAN Alliance and operates a fully hosted, scalable LoRaWAN cloud infrastructure comprising the required LoRaWAN Network, Join and Application servers. MQTT Here is available in a simple subscription model and offers out-of-the-box support for a range of popular LoRaWAN gateways and devices. MQTT NOW Cloud-based MQTT integration for IP devices Thingstream’s MQTT Now is a carrier grade MQTT broker with unique data enrichment and management capability for enterprise IoT deployments. Designed to enable IoT devices which require TCP-IP communication. Data Flow Manager Flow-based visual programming Network edge intelligence, programming and data management made easy | Our solutions offer the following benefits across all manufacturing verticals:
- Fast implementation and non-invasive integration.
- Visualisation on real-time digital kaizen boards.
- Bridging the gap between IT, OT and operations.
- Operations staff can enable their plant to work with optimum performance maximising operational efficiency.
- Monitoring overall operational performance of machines and operations in real time giving actionable intelligence.
- CFR21 Part 11 & Gamp5 approved business process automation applications.
- Our modular solution also allows tablets to be used for business process automation for QMS, CMMS, Compliance and Training.
- We offer full accountability by providing identification using barcode or RFID login to give an audit trail of operational efficiency and Traceability.
- We also have the expertise to interface our data directly into any MES or ERP systems. | A huge part of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications can significantly benefit from context awareness, in particular location awareness. This information might pertain to the location of the user, to the location of devices/appliances or both of them and hence enable a lot of powerful applications, for example, in hospitals to track equipment, doctors, and patients or in industrial environments to track and trace persons and assets. However, IoT research rather focuses on architectures, which includes components for context awareness, but pays less attention to how and with which accuracy context is achieved.
Many algorithms and approaches have been proposed for indoor RF-based localization; however, low cost and accurate indoor localization is still very challenging. Many research and commercial solutions claim very high accuracies, which can, however, only be achieved in a very specific setting under ideal conditions. Adbanticsys Research Department is working on the development of cost-effective indoor localization solutions in real-life environments such as warehouses or underground mining sites. | With the increasing and explosive growth of interconnected devices, Device Management is no longer a requirement exclusive to Telecom Equipment Manufacturers. Devices from the core of the network all the way down to Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), IoT sensors, and everything in between inclusive of Routers, Switches, and Gateways, etc. must be manageable.
Though their deep relationships with important third parties, Enea is working to ensure that organizations creating network infrastructure equipment have pre-integrated support for solutions that save time, development cost, and accelerate time to market. | Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) focus on transforming bits of data collected at the edge of a pervasive distributed system into actionable information and knowledge for business decision makers and end users. These transformations are driving the biggest change in industry since the steam engine! One of the most important aspects of IoT vision is that smart objects communicate effectively with each other and with applications residing in data centers or the cloud. Eurotech develops and offers the technical building blocks required to build distributed systems of devices and sensors to be effectively interconnected with IT infrastructures. Eurotech solutions are a combination of hardware, Firmware, operating systems, programming frameworks and external infrastructure that enable customers focus on their core activities. | Emulate3D develops virtual commissioning, throughput simulation, and industrial demonstration products to accelerate Internet of Things (IoT) development and adoption.
Emulate3D Controls Testing models connect natively to a wide range of PLCs, and can be connected to other manufacturers' products via a wide range of industrial standard protocols. The Emulate3D framework also facilitates robust connections to WMS, WCS, and ERP systems for High Level Emulation.
| The most progressive manufacturers have started to integrate wireless solutions for industrial sensing and control systems. By switching from homegrown, wired M2M systems to wireless, these companies are able to anticipate failures, monitor sensors, cut costs, improve uptime, and more. From power plants, to oil refineries, to all types of manufacturing facilities, wireless Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are allowing plants to operate safer and more efficiently than ever before. Whether you’re implementing an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) system for a new facility or you’re interested in retrofitting a current system with wireless, the considerations are the same. You need to analyze wireless technologies like WiFi, cellular, or LPWAN protocols for tradeoffs like cost, security, range, performance, and battery life.
With Symphony Link from Link Labs, a wireless network can be deployed to cover the entire facility from one gateway. That decreases the cost and security risk associated with WiFi or cellular. In addition, the battery life will last years rather than days. | The company wants to change that reality with its smart collaborative robots like Baxter and Sawyer that can easily work with humans and adapt to real-world variability and imperfections.
A collaborative robot, as Rethink's engineers define it, is intended to work interactively in a people-compatible way. Unlike traditional robots, Baxter learns by training, not by programming. | Generally, IoT is seen as a very broad concept originating from M2M and other technologies. At a higher level IoT is often divided into two categories; Applications requiring human interaction, characterized as Human IoT (HIoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT). Common for both IIoT and HIoT is that an ideal roll out of technologies would require IPv6, and in a perfect world this would include pathways to include the huge installed base of legacy industrial devices. Mandatory elements of the IIoT would also be end-to-end security, no single point of failure, autonomous node and application discovery just to mention a few objectives typically identified by IT professionals. |
| Key Customers | | Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Stryker, Teleflex, Danone, Ipsen, Nelipak | Philips, Siemens, Fraunhofer | Boeing, Honeywell, Rompetrol | ITT Exelis, TBM Rail Group, TEB | Carter Control Systems, Intralox, Kuka | | Cornell Dubilier, John Deere, Rapid-Line Inc, Schneider Electric, Stenner Pump | |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
| Technologies | Networks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Automation & ControlSensorsApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareNetworks & Connectivity | Networks & ConnectivitySensorsAutomation & ControlPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Networks & ConnectivityApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareCybersecurity & PrivacyPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Processors & Edge IntelligenceNetworks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Analytics & Modeling | | RobotsPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Networks & ConnectivityProcessors & Edge IntelligenceRobotsApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareFunctional Applications |
| Industries | Agriculture | | AgricultureConstruction & InfrastructureUtilities | Telecommunications | AerospaceHealthcare & HospitalsNational Security & DefenseRenewable EnergyTransportationUtilities | | | | |
| Use Cases | | | Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)Leakage & Flood MonitoringOutdoor Environmental Monitoring | | Manufacturing System AutomationOutdoor Environmental Monitoring | | Machine Condition MonitoringTrack & Trace of AssetsInventory Management | Robotic Machine TendingIntelligent PackagingVisual Quality Detection | Predictive MaintenanceProcess Control & OptimizationRobotic Machine Tending |
| Functions | Logistics & TransportationProcess Manufacturing | Maintenance | Maintenance | | | | | Discrete ManufacturingProcess Manufacturing | Maintenance |
| Services | | Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesTraining | | | | | | | |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Minor | None | Minor | Minor | Minor | None | None | Minor | None |
| Application Infrastructure & Middleware | None | Minor | None | Minor | None | None | None | None | Moderate |
| Analytics & Modeling | None | None | None | None | None | Minor | None | None | None |
| Functional Applications | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | Minor |
| Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | None | None | Minor | None | None | None | None | None |
| Networks & Connectivity | Moderate | Minor | Minor | Moderate | Moderate | None | None | None | Moderate |
| Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | None | None | None | Strong | None | None | None | Minor |
| Sensors | None | Moderate | Minor | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Automation & Control | None | Minor | Minor | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Robots | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | Moderate | Minor |
| Drones | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Wearables | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Actuators | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Other | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
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| Partners | | SiemensTurckImpinjPanasonicRittal | | | | | | | ABBB&R Industrial AutomationBeckhoffGeneral ElectricOmron Industrial AutomationRockwell AutomationYASKAWA VIPA ControlsSchneider Electric |
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