Whether it is catering to individual needs or large-scale business operations, startups have taken care of almost every sector. Although countless new startups are established every year, only a few are able to survive the stiff competition. Here we are listing 15 IoT startups that have achieved a lot in just a few years of being established.
1. SAMSARA
Year: 2015
Founder: Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket
Samsara offers software-centric solutions to replace conventional sensors using plug-and-play sensors, wireless connectivity and rich cloud-hosted software. It is a flexible architecture that offers easy-to-deploy wireless sensors and extensible software that can manage a wide range of activities such as fleet telematics, energy monitoring, temperature monitoring, asset monitoring and industrial sensing. Products offered by Samsara include the following -:
• IoT Gateways: These include industrial and vehicle gateways that securely connect sensor data to the enterprise cloud. Key features include built-in Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity, flexible interfaces that connect to a variety of sensors, and storage.
• Environmental Monitors: Capture data from sensors in an easy-to-install, no-configuration wireless offering. With all models, features like real-time data streaming and built-in storage to record data when disconnected.
• Input Modules: Provide remote visibility to industrial sensors and add rich, cloud-based visibility to existing infrastructure.
• Energy Monitors: electrical energy consumption is captured to analyze consumption, reduce operational costs and measure efficiency.
2. NOTION
Year 2013
Founder: Ryan Margoles Brett Jurgens
Notion caters to home automation, wireless, and IoT technologies. The startup offers a multifunctional sensor that goes by the same name, i.e. Notion. These sensors can be easily installed in almost any corner of your home, including doors, windows, and the ceiling. The device is equipped with 8 senses, namely light, movement, sound, natural frequency, acceleration, temperature, angular rate and water.
Users can use Notion in three simple steps. First, the bridge is connected to the socket that connects to Wi-Fi. After that, the sensor is placed in the desired location and the Wi-Fi connection is enabled. Once the installation is complete, all information will be displayed on your smartphone app. The device can detect water leakage, regulate temperature, fire alarm and window breakage.
3. BLUFLUX
Year: 2014
Founder: Ben Wilmhoff
Bluflux performs end-to-end RF design and testing that helps wireless product developers optimize new designs based on the DecaWave real-time location system (RTLS) chipset. Featured products include UWB antenna design, antenna testing, and wearable device optimization. The focus is on RF design optimization, cellular certification guidance, troubleshooting, wireless testing, and 24-hour pattern measurement.
The startup was honored with the Colorado Technology Association's 2015 APEX Startup of the Year Award. Additionally, the Bluflux team has also been associated with Google's Advanced Technology and Projects Group (ATAP) for Project Soli.
4. WIGWAG
Year: 2012
Founder: Ed Hemphill, Travis McCollum
WigWag connects all smart devices to form an ecosystem to automate simple tasks. Products include WigWag Relay and lighting kit along with a smartphone app that can be used by Android and iPhone users. The user simply connects the relay and downloads an app from which they can control all household appliances and also set the lighting according to their mood.
The platform is built on an open-source Device JS runtime that reduces the complexity of competing IoT device protocols. It also offers a unified IoT programming language which in turn helps in building IoT applications and devices. Relay can be updated and works with different brands and protocols.
5. GREEN
Year: 2010
Founder: Thorsten Heller
Greendbird offers IT consulting services and integration solutions to public and private companies through its Metercloud framework. It Metercloud.io is a big data integration suite and configurable business integration processes for smart metering, smart cities and industrial IOT. The following services are provided by this platform:
• Report daily market meter readings to national data centers
• Orchestration of service requests and events received from the Meter Data Management System
• Smart meter and smart grid readings stored in data warehouse
• Synchronization of job loaders, logistics and resources
• Support main market and settlement operations.
Metercloud is considered the future of digital dealerships to support new consumption profiles and emerging market models. It provides a communication layer between all types of meters, appliances, generation facilities and accounting systems.
6. ELLIEGRIDA
Year: 2015
Founder: Abe Matamoros, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Nicolas Dhanam and Regina Vatterott
Elliegrid is a pill box, designed especially for seniors, who have complex medications, to help them manage their medications and supplements. The box has different columns to classify each type of pill and emits a reminder alarm every time the user is required to take the medicine.
To use Elliegrid, the user simply fills in the data using an application and then the device notifies about medication intake. It also sends a message to your loved ones if they forget to open the box at the scheduled time. The campaign has already raised $43,054 and the team is currently focused on building the tool for manufacturing. The first batch will likely be manufactured in February 2017, while deliveries will begin in May 2017.
7. DROPLIT
Year: 2014
Founder: Bryan Jenks
Droplit renders a layer of 5 APIs to help you link your IoT device to your user application. These APIs include an SDK (software development kit), conduits for connecting other clouds, REST and webhooks for the backend, and web sockets for the frontend. It allows the user to build the model, connect any device regardless of its protocol, control it through the REST API, and then enjoy advanced device integrations.
It's a fast, powerful, and intuitive developer experience that lets you enjoy command of the world of IoT. Users can leverage the portal and other tools to deploy their open source edge hub software and configure device communication with programmable behavior engine. It's easy to learn, reasonably priced, and designed by security experts, ensuring scalability.
8. LEXUMO
Year: 2015
Founder: Brad Gaynor
Lexumo basically helps you discover the open source components in your code and then find the vulnerabilities to fix them. Lexumo works in 4 steps below:
• Indexes all the world's open source software and makes it searchable for the first time
• Noting faulty code responsible for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities
• Looking for the open source vulnerable components in the code
• Provide code-level instructions to fix software without breaking dependencies
It helps developers remove open source vulnerabilities in their code while complying with license requirements. The company has raised $4.9 million in funding from renowned cybersecurity investors and has been recognized as an IoT company to watch as well as a machine learning startup to watch.
9. ANASE LIMITED
Year: 2015
Founder: Simon Koo
Ananse is a cloud-based platform for connecting smart devices of any brand with various data sources such as social media, email, calendar, etc. With this platform, you can build your own smart device automation, intelligently linking them together. and establish workflows according to user-defined instructions.
The goal is to bridge the gap between multiple brands and standards, thus providing a seamless and consistent user experience. It not only serves as the basis for personalized IoT automation, but also supports smart city infrastructures or smart offices. Fitbit, Nest, Alexa, from Amazon, and Philips Hue are some of the startup's customers.
10. LITTLE
Year 2013
Founder: Scott Noteboom
Litbit is the original creator and main driver of the open-source Apache lota project, which is used as the core of the company's orchestration platform called RythmOS. It allows you to connect and share encrypted data across clouds and automate IoT without having to work on code. It works in combination with some applications, namely Maestro, Vitals and Intellect.
The team aims to provide dramatically improved integration, automation, and orchestration capabilities between people and multiple Internet-connected software-defined devices. They aim to provide a highly safe, open environment to develop better working relationships between people and machines.
11. SKYCATCH
Year 2013
Founder: Christian Sanz
Skycatch provides a platform to advance and commercialize drone technology. The startup renders drones, software, and also the integration platform that allows the user to use drones as a construction site toolkit containing a drone, a flight app, and a viewer. It captures data with the help of small autonomous aerial robots according to the area defined in the application and then the results can be seen through the viewer.
The services provided can cover large geographic areas and can be equipped with a wide range of sensors according to the customer's needs. It can also work in challenging weather situations. The goal is to integrate drones with IoT technology so that it becomes as common as a surveyor traveling around sites. In addition to construction, the service can be used for automation and also for relief measures as part of disaster management.
12. SMART IoT SYSTEMS
Year: NA
Founder: William Mutual and Jennifer Blome
IoT Smart System is a startup that aims to serve video-related services on IoT platforms. The company treats video as one of many sensor streams required by a full IoT application, for which it offers a service called LiveCast. It offers solutions through two applications called Duetto and Duo, offering low latency and high-quality real-time streaming of incoming audio and video. The former is aimed at mobile devices (including drones, smart glasses), while the latter is aimed at desktops.
The services offered by this startup can be summarized as follows:
• Built-in live video solution for wearable devices
• Integration of live video, sensor data and Man Down alerts from cell phones and tablets
• Supports biometrics, telemetry and other digital sensors
• Real-time monitoring for situational awareness, IoT monitoring, and integrated device alarms and notifications.
• Customization and improvement of applications and delivery platforms
• Live video streaming performance making viable UAV streaming solution
• Customization and improvement of applications and delivery platforms
13. IFTTT
Year: 2011
Founder: Linden Tibbets and Jesse Tane
IFTTT, also known as “If This Then That” offers a free web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional systems known as applets. There is a wide range of applets related to a diverse list of areas like social media, education, home automation, IoT, music, and so on. The user must click on activate and then link their user account to the platform and from there it will notify the user about the selected service.
Some of the featured services created using the IFTTT platform include the following -:
• Indoona: Get notified about a new file in Dropbox or rising room temperature, send a URL or add a new song to the playlist via chat
• Voyages-snfc: Plan trips, book train tickets, set a playlist and share trip information on Facebook
• Thinga: An economical physical button device that controls home automation devices, saves your shopping list and reminds you of medicines.
• Muzik: It's the world's first smart, connected headset. In addition to changing tracks and controlling volume, you can also operate Philips Hue lights, set the nest thermostat temperature.
These mini-applications help bring together various services and perform functions such as automating simple tasks and transforming the way humans interact with home appliances and devices. IFTTT's clientele includes Dropbox, Nest, Fitbit, Philips Hue, BMW, and many other companies.
14. ZESCALADOR
Year: 2008
Founder: Jay Chaudhry
Zscaler's Internet Security Platform provides comprehensive Internet security and provides compliance with all IP-based devices. It offers two essential services in the form of Internet access and private access. The first inspects all traffic and prevents data loss, as well as blocking potential threats. The latter ensures secure access to internal applications and minimizes the attack surface.
The company serves more than 5,000 private companies as well as government organizations, protecting them against cyberattacks and data breaches. It claims to provide cost-effective protection for multiple internet-connected devices.
15. LITMUS AUTOMATION
Year 2013
Founder: Vatsal Shah, John Younes, Sacha Sawaya
This startup sells its main product under the name 'Loop'. It is a cloud-based platform that connects devices on one side with applications on the other side. You can connect your device, monitor it, build applications and make use of database; all this without coding a single line.
The various loop modules include message queuing, data enricher, triggers, database, and applications. Currently, Litmus Automation allows “Things” to connect to various applications such as CRM, scalable databases and Big Data.
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