In the entire industrial chain of the Internet of Things involving " end-edge-management-cloud-application ", the Internet of Things platform layer has attracted many companies to enter the industry in the past ten years because of its pivotal position and endless imagination space. Among them, There are leading cloud vendor giants, telecom operators , large traditional manufacturing companies , and start-ups .
In 2015, AWS released the IoT Core cloud service, so every company wanted to build a large-scale IoT platform to connect hundreds of millions of IoT devices .
According to the ideal situation, if the IoT platform does well, it will naturally attract many developers to develop SaaS applications with various functions based on their own IoT platform, forming a vibrant IoT ecosystem, and ultimately building an AppStore in the IoT field.
However, in practice, many companies have gradually discovered that the IoT PaaS platform itself is a field with high thresholds . The implementation and deployment of the IoT platform is time-consuming and costly. SMEs developing on the IoT platform can provide users with Applications and solutions that create value require high investments and costs, so those IoT platform vendors who blindly follow the trend without in-depth thinking will soon taste the bitter consequences .
By 2018 , many companies realized that they could not compete with cloud vendors such as AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Microsoft that were investing heavily in IoT platforms.
In early 2019 , Samsung quietly announced the dissolution of the Artik IoT platform team;
In 2020 , the field of IoT platforms finally began to consolidate. Aurora JIoT platform was offline, UCloud IoT UIoT platform was discontinued, and Google closed IoT Core IoT core services;
After November 2022 , the Tencent Cloud IoT platform will rarely be updated;
In 2023, HUAWEI CLOUD will offline IoT data analysis services.
Over the past decade, the Internet of Things industry has left behind a large number of zombie devices.
However, after several rounds of shuffling and reality hitting, we firmly believe that IoT devices will not disappear because there is great value in connecting thermometers, air conditioners and thermostats to the Internet. The analysis and control these devices provide can be invaluable to both users and companies. It is easier for enterprises to directly provide SaaS applications to directly create value for users and realize profitability.
In terms of the current technology maturity and window period, after the big wave has passed, the basic IoT PaaS platform has become very mature. The IoT platforms of AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Microsoft Cloud have become leaders in the IoT market . Targeting different market segments, Find a wide variety of third-party IoT platforms to choose from.
Therefore, in 2023, instead of developing and building an IoT platform from scratch, enterprises will ultimately prefer to build IoT systems based on cloud vendors' IoT platforms to quickly meet business development needs.
Finally, I sincerely invite IoT practitioners to share your stories and co-author the annual article "The History of the Dying of China's IoT Platform ".
The following content is only prepared for those who have entered the Internet of Things in the past ten years, and the decision-makers for enterprise IoT platform selection