IoT Platforms
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IoT platform is a middleware solution which acts as a software bridge between IoT devices and IoT applications. It orchestrates many of the fundamental aspects that make the IoT technology stack work. These aspects include interoperability and programming abstractions, device discovery and management, application enablement, data ingestion, data processing, data storage, etc. It also implements ample security features at the hardware and software layers. It should meet the needs for infrastructure scalability to support an ever-expanding ecosystem. An
IoT platform may take advantage of advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to enable faster, more granular insights and robust contextualization of information for direct communication and interaction between IoT devices.