CHAPTER 6

Industrial IoT (IIoT) Platforms

There are many vendors in the IIoT platform marketplace, offering remarkably similar capabilities and methods of deployment. And not one of them has differentiated itself enough at this point to be a clear leader in an emerging market. Gartner’s June 2019 Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms, for example, has no leaders or challengers. Have a glance at Figure 6.1 to see Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms.

Given the fractured and crowded market, and the growing potential of IIoT to extract value from data, reduce costs, improve operations, and present new business models, analysts recommend that businesses looking for a platform devote time to research. They also suggest focusing ...

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