This section provides a more in depth analysis of the leading IoT platforms on the market. Our goal of the deep dive is to gain a better understanding of these platforms and identify patterns that can be indicative for their success. More specifically, we examine the following dimensions for each of the platforms: functional features of these platforms supported IoT protocols, pricing and business models as well as ecosystem activities of these platforms. The discussions are based on platforms identified and selected in section 5.4.
The IoT platforms are grouped in three broad categories, commercial platforms of global leading industry players, SME/start-up, open source platforms with an additional section on OneM2M compliant platforms. The section is concluded with a discussion of main findings.
