Ask HN: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Companies?

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Post by iiothn » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 3:04 AM UTC

Long Time HNer reader posting under a new account.

I’m the PM for an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) project at a large US company. We are currently undertaking a market survey looking for partners and vendors to support our IIoT project. As a large company, we traditionally do business with other large companies, however, as a HNer, I suspect there are many excellent startup / small / medium IIoT companies flying under our radar.

I’m interested in learning more about IIoT companies and ideally, including them in our market survey. Please post your company info here or send me a link at “iiothn [at] gmail [dot] com”

Thanks!

Note: As this is an industrial project, consumer focused companies / products are likely a poor fit

Re: Ask HN: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Companies?

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Post by brd » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 10:18 AM UTC

Spoke with the CTO of http://www.fybr-tech.com/ the other day. They've definitely built some interest tech that could be repurposed for IIoT use cases.

Re: Ask HN: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Companies?

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Post by kevinherron » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 12:57 PM UTC

Well, we're not solely an IIoT company, but we do have an IIoT solution: https://inductiveautomation.com/solutions/iiot

I think we're best recognized as an HMI/SCADA company.

Re: Ask HN: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Companies?

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Post by mobileexpert » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

It would help if you scoped your request to the parts of the stack you are looking at help with.

For instance if you are interested in soup to nuts sensors in the field to predictive maintenance software in the cloud, is very different set of companies than if you are just interested in data collection layer, signal transmission layer, storage layer, business logic or analytics layers.

You will find start ups that claim to be "full stack" but you might want to have some caution and understand what they've actually built and where it is in "in production" not in pilot or PoC phases.

The other interesting thing about IIoT start ups is that many are focused on specific verticals/application areas.

Companies involved with tracking trucking fleets versus operating drone fleets versus monitoring oil fields seem unlikely to all be relevant to you.

Re: Ask HN: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Companies?

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Post by leritzi » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 8:51 AM UTC

I work in a large company and we've been trialing PTC/Thingworx. They have been painful to work with- I'm pushing that we move to a company that is more open. I'd be keen to hear other experiences and alternatives.