Deutsche Telekom has developed a
multi-IoT platform, which will launch at DT’s “House of Clouds” data center in
Biere.
DT’s platform aims to address the mass fragmentation in
today’s IoT market. It will unite different vendor platforms under one roof,
enabling device-independent use of IoT solutions. The first platform that is
supported is Microsoft’s Azure IoT Suite. The next ones will be Cisco Fog and
Huawei’s IoT platform.
DT cites a study by PAC, according to which only 5% of the
potential of IoT has been captured so far. One major reason for this is the
highly fragmented market, which requires users to manage many different
specialist suppliers. DT’s scalable, pan-industry platform, together with
plug-and-play starter packages will help companies start using IoT. In the near
future, DT plans to add a data analytics service to its platform.
DT’s multi-IoT platform acts as an interpreter and
distributor, collecting data from a variety of hardware, including sensors and
machinery, translating it to the correct format, and routing it through
gateways to the preferred platform for processing.
The data collected by the platform will be housed in
Germany, subject to strict German data protection laws.
DT’s platform could turn out to be rather attractive to
customers as it addresses the problem with IoT fragmentation and concerns over
data privacy.
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