IoT integration platforms and solutions

Xively, ThingSpeak, and others offer flexible development solutions for integrating new IoT devices into enterprise architectures. In the domain of smart cities, platforms such as Accella and SCOPE, a smart-city cloud-based open platform and ecosystem, offer the ability to integrate a variety of IoT systems into enterprise solutions.

These platforms provide APIs that IoT device developers can use to build new features and services. Increasingly, IoT developers are incorporating these APIs and demonstrating ease-of-integration into enterprise IT environments. The ThingSpeak API, for example, can be used to integrate IoT devices via HTTP communications. This enables organizations to capture data from their sensors, analyze that data, and then take action on that data. Similarly, AllJoyn is an open source project from the AllSeen Alliance. It is focused heavily on interoperability between IoT devices, even when the devices use different transport mechanisms. As IoT matures, disparate IoT components, protocols, and APIs will continue to be glued together to build powerful enterprise-wide systems. These trends beg the question of just how secure these systems will be.