Gartner expects the number of global IoT devices to reach 26 billion by 2020, while the revenues of Internet makers will be as high as $309 billion. According to Cisco's forecasts, the communication flow between IoT devices in 2018 will exceed human communication on the Internet, which means that in less than four years, we will be fully connected to the age of all things. In the face of this cross-era gold rush opportunity, the Internet business start-up companies springing up in general is not surprising, recently CIO magazine selected the top ten most popular things networking startups:
I. Adheretech
Product Reviews: To provide a network of smart bottles, to ensure that patients comply with the doctor's advice.
Establishment Date: October 2011
Financing: 2.3 million dollars invested so far
Competitors: The most direct competitor is Vitality Glowcap, others include patient medication risk Analysis Services--rxante, smart pill Proteus Digital Tiyatien.
Ii. Chui
Product Reviews: Chui (not blowing) the smart doorbell product combines face recognition, advanced computer image processing, and machine learning techniques to turn a person's face into a "universal secret key", Chui, who introduces his own program, usually likes to say: "This is the world's most intelligent doorbell."
Establishment Date: 2013
Financing: More than 72,000 dollars through public-funded projects
Competitors: Chui's main competitors are Goji, Skybell (formerly Idoorcam) and Doorbot, but none of the three smart doorbell competitors use face recognition technology (video surveillance).
Iii. enlighted
Product Reviews: Enlighted provides intelligent lighting systems for commercial buildings. The cost of lighting electricity accounts for the operating costs of commercial buildings 25-40%, at the same time it is related to the office environment and staff satisfaction and work efficiency. The human body intelligent sensor developed by enlighted can collect environment data for analysis and choose the best brightness and energy saving method. The biggest difference between enlighted and other wireless intelligent lighting systems is the centrality of the sensor nodes that are able to make independent judgments and control the lighting directly.
Establishment Date: 2009
Financing: 2013 completed the C round of 20 million U.S. dollars financing, cumulative financing of about 36 million U.S. dollars
Competitors: Lutron, Watt stopper, Redwood Bae, Daintree, Adura, Digital, etc.
Iv. Heapsylon
Product Reviews: Smart clothes may be the most veritable "wearable" device. Heapsylon Smart sportswear through fabric pressure sensors, heapsylon products not only like the regular motion sensors to track the runner's route, distance, speed, elevation, ambient temperature, but also tracking the pace, pedal skills, the foot of the center of gravity and pressure distribution and other information, Help runners correct running posture and prevent sports injuries. According to Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, 85% of the 25 million runners in North America are suffering from athletic injuries this year.
Establishment Date: 2013
Financing: Get 1 million dollars angel investment
Competitors: Wearable devices have a lot of competitors, notably Nike FuelBand, Fitbit, Intel (developing smart Shirts), omsignal, etc.
V. Humavox
Product Reviews: Hummavox's technology can be wirelessly used for a number of things connected to the device at the same time, and can automatically identify all the equipment in the charging area of the battery model, voltage, charging speed, charging curve requirements, to automatically select the optimal charging mode. At present, the so-called wireless charging technology in the market is not a cure. (Imagine how exciting it is to have a traffic recorder without wiring)
Establishment Date: 2013
Financing: 5 million dollars after the seed money
Competitor: There are three standards for wireless charging, respectively, the QI standard of the Wireless Charging association (Wireless Power Consortium); Power Mat Alliance Standard and Wireless Charge Federation (Alliance for Wireless power.) Rezence standards, although the three major standards behind the manufacturers have invested billions of of billions of dollars of money, but the delay in opening the consumer market. If Humavox products can be cashed, there will be no competitors.
Vi. Neura
Product Reviews: For most enterprises, the development of the Internet of things is very challenging, Neura's goal is very ambitious: the development of a link to all the elements of the Internet element of the open platform, including objects, locations, people and the web and other elements, can be seen as a giant middleware of the internet of things.
Establishment Date: 2013
Financing: 2 million US dollar financing in April 2014
Rival: Google is the main competitor, including other companies that develop AI AI, machine learning, and machine-to-machine communications, and Neura emphasizes that it focuses more on data applications than connectivity.
Vii. PubNub
Product Reviews: The goal of PUBNUB is also very ambitious: to develop a real-time Internet of IoT communication to solve the problem of large-scale connectivity of global IoT.
Establishment Date: 2010
Financing: Two rounds of 15.5 million dollars have been completed.
Competitors: Frozen kings and Kaazing offer business solutions, and Open-source solutions such as Node.js, Faye, and mosquito provide similar software. But pubnub that these solutions put pressure on the users to operate, extend, reliability, and secure.
Viii. Revolv
Product Reviews: Revolv's smart home Remote app can turn your iphone and other smartphones into a universal remote. Consumers are now on the app phobia, but all kinds of smart home hardware products are keen to develop their own remote control app,revolv hope to become the last remote control Terminator, through an app that controls all smart home networking equipment. Revolv's control hub integrates 7 wireless technologies and is familiar with the "wireless language" that supports all the mainstream smart devices on the market.
Establishment Date: 2012
Financing: 6.7 million dollars in investment
Competitors: including big brands such as Staples Connect and start-up company SmartThings (Samsung has been bought for 200 million dollars)
Ix. Tempodb
Product Reviews: Provides the private cloud analysis service for the sensor data of the IoT.
Establishment Date: 2011
Financing: $4.1 million for a round of financing
Competitors: Direct competitors are Savi and sensorcloud, other things networking platforms such as Thingworx and xively, as well as manufacturers of large data Analysis Services involving the internet of things, such as Vertica.
X. Theatro
Product Reviews: Theatro development can be used in the office environment can be wearable WiFi walkie-talkie, the personnel access to the Internet. The United States has more than 32 million hours of work such as retail outlets, hotels, logistics centers, warehouse management employees are using headsets and walkie-talkie communications, which means they have no access to the Internet of things or corporate IT services, which is a major barrier to productivity improvement (for example, by using a tablet or mobile phone to receive a notice that a smart light bulb needs to be replaced). Theatro's WiFi walkie-talkie can be a terminal for "offline" people to receive and send voice commands, such as when a librarian checks the status of an inventory unit by simply saying the unit number.
Establishment Date: 2011
Financing: The 5 million dollar a round of financing was just completed in August 2014.
Competitors: Major competitors from Motorola Enterprise solutions and Zebra Marvell, both offer a variety of wireless products for traditional walkie-talkie technology.
(Via:CIOCTO.COM)
(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)