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| Supplier Slogan | | | Imagine. Build. Succeed. | | The Future Is Now. | Located at the Intersection of Hardware, Software and Human Behavior | Be Reliable. Be Accurate. Be Simple. | IoT Platform for Commercial Buildings | A Complete Sensor Solution that Deploys in Minutes |
| HQ Location | Finland | Spain | Italy | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States |
| Year Founded | 2012 | 1989 | 1992 | 1981 | 2008 | 2014 | 2005 | 2009 | 2015 |
| Company Type | Private | Private | Public | Public | Private | Private | Private | Private | Private |
| Stock Ticker | | | BIT: ETH | NASDAQ:CGNX | | | | | |
| Revenue | < $10m | < $10m | $10-100m | $10-100m | < $10m | < $10m | < $10m | < $10m | < $10m |
| Employees | < 10 | < 10 | 201 - 1,000 | 1,001 - 10,000 | < 10 | < 10 | 11 - 50 | 11 - 50 | 201 - 1,000 |
| Website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website | Open website |
| Twitter Handle | @hitseed | @advanticsys | @EurotechFan | @Cognex_Corp | @RethinkRobotics | @bluecityllc | @sensoscientific | @enlightedinc | @SamsaraHQ |
| Company Description | HitSeed was founded by industry and startup veterans to provide tools and services for connected product development. Our track record includes over 1B€ of M&A activities, founding over 25+ companies, international IPR, and working with over 50 industry leaders around the world. We have conducted various business and technology assignments and built numerous products for small and large companies with or without our Sensor Computer IoT platform. | Advanticsys creates monitoring and control products and solutions that improve processes and services in areas such as energy, agriculture and environment in a global marketplace.
Year founded: 2009
Revenue: $1 - 10 million (2014 est.) | Eurotech is a global company focusing on embedded computers and Pervasive Computing, which combines three key factors: the miniaturisation of computers capable of processing information; their spread in the real world - in buildings and machinery, on board vehicles, on persons and in the environment; and their ability to network and communicate. Year founded: 1992 Revenue: $69 million (2014) BIT: ETH | Cognex Corporation is the world leading provider of vision systems, vision software, vision sensors and surface inspection systems used in manufacturing automation. Cognex is also a leader in industrial ID readers.
Cognex vision helps companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high quality products at an affordable price. | Rethink Robotics is a new kind of robotics company, and their mission is to create a new kind of manufacturing robot. One that introduces robotics into processes that manufacturers have never been able to cost-effectively automate. One that uses common sense to perform a wide range of tasks and vastly improve productivity. And one that safely works side by side with its human counterparts, who are able to train it with no programming or engineering expertise.
Year founded: 2008 | Bluecity specializes in connecting devices to the wider world by leveraging BLE and other communication channels. Our signature product is a waste management sensor package which has evolved into a more general purpose data gathering platform. | SensoScientific, is an industry leader in temperature and environmental monitoring solutions. SensoScientific's automated, wireless solution alerts designated staff via email, text message, land line, or pager when conditions become "out of range". This feature has proven to be especially beneficial for facilities that are not staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. SensoScientific's solutions are specifically designed to help facilities save money by protecting the valuable product they store and to help them stay in compliance with all of the regulatory agencies involved. | Enlighted ambitions to help customers to reach long-range sustainability goals while saving money and increasing efficiency. By providing smart energy solutions for commercial buildings through the usage of first-in-class sensor and analytics platform, their technology reduces costs and improves the comfort of workspaces and the efficiency of the people who work in them. | Samsara builds sensor systems that combine wireless sensors with remote networking and cloud-based analytics - all in an easy-to-use, software-centric solution. Samsara believes that by making sensors simple to deploy and their data easy to consume, customers will be able to deploy them by the thousands, and in places they've never been used before. |
| IoT Solutions | SEEDNODE
Intelligent and independent sensor computers
DETECT & ANALYZE
HitSeed’s SeedNodes are intelligent and independent sensor computers. They collect, analyze and store huge amounts of sensor data completely autonomously using on-board “small data analytics”, minimizing the need for data transfer and reliance on external infrastructure.
COMMUNICATE
Computed results are transferred wirelessly via Bluetooth LE or cellular data for further processing in the cloud. SeedNodes can also form a mesh network to communicate with each other.
100X PRODUCTIVITY BOOST WITH LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
SeedNode platform provides a complete end-to-end hardware and software solution for a wide variety of connected business and consumer products. With SeedNode, HitSeed’s customer companies can focus their skills and R&D effort on software and services and leave the complex hardware and system questions to HitSeed.
SeedNode is primed for developing connected devices in cases where speed, size, cost and power consumption are critical. It can be incorporated into various mobile or stationary form factors. | A huge part of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications can significantly benefit from context awareness, in particular location awareness. This information might pertain to the location of the user, to the location of devices/appliances or both of them and hence enable a lot of powerful applications, for example, in hospitals to track equipment, doctors, and patients or in industrial environments to track and trace persons and assets. However, IoT research rather focuses on architectures, which includes components for context awareness, but pays less attention to how and with which accuracy context is achieved.
Many algorithms and approaches have been proposed for indoor RF-based localization; however, low cost and accurate indoor localization is still very challenging. Many research and commercial solutions claim very high accuracies, which can, however, only be achieved in a very specific setting under ideal conditions. Adbanticsys Research Department is working on the development of cost-effective indoor localization solutions in real-life environments such as warehouses or underground mining sites. | Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) focus on transforming bits of data collected at the edge of a pervasive distributed system into actionable information and knowledge for business decision makers and end users. These transformations are driving the biggest change in industry since the steam engine! One of the most important aspects of IoT vision is that smart objects communicate effectively with each other and with applications residing in data centers or the cloud. Eurotech develops and offers the technical building blocks required to build distributed systems of devices and sensors to be effectively interconnected with IT infrastructures. Eurotech solutions are a combination of hardware, Firmware, operating systems, programming frameworks and external infrastructure that enable customers focus on their core activities. | Cognex machine vision and barcode reading tools enable companies around the world to improve assembly verification, eliminate defects, automate production and identify challenging barcodes reliably across a wide range of industries and applications. | The company wants to change that reality with its smart collaborative robots like Baxter and Sawyer that can easily work with humans and adapt to real-world variability and imperfections.
A collaborative robot, as Rethink's engineers define it, is intended to work interactively in a people-compatible way. Unlike traditional robots, Baxter learns by training, not by programming. | We believe that instrumentation of normal everyday devices will lead to a more engaged and informed citizenry. That's why we approached the humble garbage can to begin with, with the hope that we can cut diesel emissions by cutting down on wasted trips to empty garbage cans.
However this is just the start. As populations grow and become more urbanized, the only way to sustainability is going to be Data Streams from sensors that co-exist at every level of human activity. These Data Streams will open up avenues for better resource management and will also democratize information points from all areas in a city, not just the more prosperous ones.
Yes there will be challenges of scale and security, but working together IOT can help solve human problems at scale. It is going to be a very exciting future for people playing in the space! | | At Enlighted, they’re already making IoT solutions a reality for the customers with our industry-leading IoT platform and high-level applications. Going forward, the possibilities are endless. | |
| Key Customers | | Philips, Siemens, Fraunhofer | ITT Exelis, TBM Rail Group, TEB | Carsem, Procter & Gamble, Royal Canadian Mint | Cornell Dubilier, John Deere, Rapid-Line Inc, Schneider Electric, Stenner Pump | | Premiere Health Care Alliance, Hospital Corporation of America, Amerinet | AT&T, Mercy, HP, JDSU, Interface, Agilent Technologies, City of San Jose, Menlo Business Park | |
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IoT Snapshot | | | | | | | | | |
| Technologies | Platform as a Service (PaaS)Application Infrastructure & Middleware | Networks & ConnectivitySensorsAutomation & ControlPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Processors & Edge IntelligenceNetworks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Analytics & ModelingSensors | RobotsPlatform as a Service (PaaS) | Application Infrastructure & MiddlewareProcessors & Edge Intelligence | Sensors | Networks & ConnectivitySensors | Analytics & ModelingFunctional ApplicationsSensorsApplication Infrastructure & MiddlewareNetworks & ConnectivityPlatform as a Service (PaaS) |
| Industries | BuildingsRetail | AgricultureConstruction & InfrastructureUtilities | AerospaceHealthcare & HospitalsNational Security & DefenseRenewable EnergyTransportationUtilities | AgricultureAutomotiveConsumer GoodsElectronicsFood & BeverageLife SciencesPharmaceuticalsRenewable Energy | | | Healthcare & Hospitals | BuildingsEducationHealthcare & HospitalsRetail | Construction & InfrastructureTransportation |
| Use Cases | Building Automation & Control | Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)Leakage & Flood MonitoringOutdoor Environmental Monitoring | Manufacturing System AutomationOutdoor Environmental Monitoring | Visual Quality DetectionComputer Vision | Robotic Machine TendingIntelligent PackagingVisual Quality Detection | Outdoor Environmental MonitoringTank Level Monitoring | Food Safety ManagementLeakage & Flood Monitoring | Building Energy ManagementSmart Lighting | Fleet ManagementMachine Condition MonitoringProcess Control & OptimizationVehicle Telematics |
| Functions | Logistics & TransportationMaintenance | Maintenance | | Discrete ManufacturingLogistics & TransportationQuality Assurance | Discrete ManufacturingProcess Manufacturing | | | Facility Management | Business OperationDiscrete ManufacturingField ServicesLogistics & TransportationProcess Manufacturing |
| Services | | | | Hardware Design & Engineering ServicesSoftware Design & Engineering ServicesSystem Integration | | | | System Integration | Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation ServicesData Science ServicesSoftware Design & Engineering Services |
Technology Stack | | | | | | | | | |
| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Minor | Minor | Minor | None | Minor | None | None | None | Minor |
| Application Infrastructure & Middleware | Minor | None | None | None | None | Minor | None | None | Minor |
| Analytics & Modeling | None | None | None | Moderate | None | None | None | None | Moderate |
| Functional Applications | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | Moderate |
| Cybersecurity & Privacy | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Networks & Connectivity | None | Minor | Moderate | None | None | None | None | Minor | Moderate |
| Processors & Edge Intelligence | None | None | Strong | None | None | Minor | None | None | None |
| Sensors | None | Minor | None | Moderate | None | None | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate |
| Automation & Control | None | Minor | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Robots | None | None | None | None | Moderate | None | None | None | None |
| Drones | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Wearables | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Actuators | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Other | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
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