Jasper

As a legacy M2M platform provider, Jasper has one of the largest IoT plays in the business. Today, the Jasper Platform powers the IoT initiatives of more than 1,000 of the world’s top companies, including Alarm.com, Air Liquide, Audi, Boston Scientific, Coca-Cola, Ford, Garmin, General Electric, General Motors, Honeywell, Nissan, and Securitas. In the telecom sphere, 19 mobile operator groups use Jasper’s cloud-based platform for IoT.

Jasper’s turnkey solution allows service providers to rapidly reach market with IoT solutions. For example, Telkomsel, Indonesia’s largest mobile operator and world’s sixth largest mobile operator, recently tapped Jasper to bring Internet of Things (IoT)/Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services to businesses across Indonesia. This enables Telkomsel to offer B2B IoT services to companies in Indonesia.

Telkomsel’s M2M Control Center provides its customers real-time visibility, control and other capabilities, such as mobile service management, real-time support diagnostics, billing and business automation.

“Our customers are looking to build connected service businesses that enable new experiences and increase customer value. Working with Jasper equips Telkomsel with the resources required to offer and implement solutions that meet their changing needs,” said Director of Planning & Transformation, Telkomsel, Edward Ying. “The Jasper platform not only automates delivery and management of mobile services to all types of devices, it also makes it possible for us to help our customers increase service reliability, lower operational costs, and easily scale their device deployments both in Indonesia and on a global scale.”

Telefonica

Global service provider Telefonica calls its end-to-end IoT platform “Thinking Things,” which attempts to make IoT as easy as a Lego set. The platform is comprised of four parts: modular hardware, global connectivity, easy-to-use user interfaces (UIs), and an API for developers. Like AT&T, Telefonica is leveraging its global M2M SIM to provide pervasive connectivity. The actual kits--which are connected right out of the box--are quite affordable, and are sold with a time-based global connectivity contract. For example, a Ambient Kit that can track location and measure temperature, humidity and light intensity, costs about 90 euro and includes 6 months of global connectivity. The Thinking Things UI can send reports and triggered events or alerts via SMS, email, Twitter, or whatever a developer might dream up, making management flexible and easy.

Dell

Dell is helping accelerate IoT with an innovation lab strategy, a tactic we have covered in Pipeline often. In September of 2014, Dell announced it was opening of the Dell Internet of Things (IoT) Lab in Silicon Valley to partner with customers to help them explore, test and deploy IoT solutions that help drive business outcomes and accelerate time to market. Dell is part of the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, and the new lab is co-funded by Intel.