Figure 3: Implementation elements in the main areas covered by IoT platforms
The IoT Platforms provide a framework for categorizing the technology capabilities that are necessary to deliver connected things, operations, assets, and the enterprises.
The four main blocks of capabilities presented in Figure 3 are: Connectivity that includes the hardware and software to network within the factory and the enterprise, standards for integrating machines, clouds, applications and the technology for managing devices, transferring data, and triggering events;
Data analytics: including the use of a set of statistical and optimization tools to refine, monitor, and analyse structured and unstructured data for enabling different services;
Cloud that integrate various types of cloud technologies across the enterprise to implement computing and storage capabilities (i.e. at the edge, within the factory, at the enterprise, or outside the firewall);
Application area that integrates the tools for creating new mashup software applications that leverage the areas of the IoT platform.
Figure 4: IoT platforms impact in IoT consumer, business and industrial markets
IoT platforms maturity has a high relevance for the business and industrial IoT markets where the requirements are high, while for consumer markets the impact is relatively low as presented in Figure 4 (impact of various technologies on the future IoT consumer/business/industrial markets).
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