1248 Universal IoT Device Manager

在我们之前的初创企业中，我们成功地发展了大型互联产品业务（AlertMe：互联家庭平台，Amino：IPTV平台，Actix：移动的电话管理平台）。但我们公司的大部分时间和金钱（约80%）都花在了管理物联网基础设施（设备、网关、网络）上，而不是交付真正的价值主张本身。这种体验是典型的，并抑制了物联网（IoT）市场的增长。连接的应用程序可以用于家庭，工厂，农业，医疗保健，智能城市，能源管理或任何其他垂直领域。解决方案供应商需要将其宝贵的时间、金钱、独特的技能和领域知识集中在开发其主张的传感器和软件算法上，这些传感器和软件算法可以捕获数据并将其转化为价值，而不是管理基础设施。因此，1248确定了物联网市场中的一个真实的空白：设备管理（DM），一种自动化物联网基础设施生命周期的服务。DM管理边缘设备（例如，连接的路灯、喂猪器或家庭恒温器）以及将它们连接到互联网的网关。DM包括安全设备“载入”、版本管理、升级监控、分流和诊断。我们特别关注通用DM，即一项服务能够管理多个异构物联网边缘标准。完全自动化的DM可以为所有物联网服务在扩展时所面临的问题带来一个渐进式的解决方案。这是一个巨大的市场：全球联网设备的数量已经超过了人，其数量以25%的复合年增长率增长[思科]。连接设备与人类的比例每十年增加10倍。在本世纪之交，人们每人都有一台联网设备（个人电脑）。如今，他们每个人都有10个或更多的连接设备。物联网将在2020年继续发展到100多个设备。这些都不能手动管理，因为我们人类越来越缺乏时间。

In our previous start-ups we successfully grew large connected-products businesses (AlertMe:Connected Home platform, Amino: IPTV platform, Actix: Mobile Phone managementplatform). But most of our companies’ time and money (~80%) was spent managing IoTINFRASTRUCTURE – devices, gateways, networks – rather than on delivering the actualheadline value-proposition itself. This experience is typical, and inhibits the growth of theInternet of Things (IoT) market.Connected applications can be for Home, Factory, Farming, Healthcare, Smart city, Energymanagement or any other vertical. Solution vendors need to focus their precious time, money,unique skills & domain knowledge on developing their proposition’s sensors and softwarealgorithms which capture data and turn it into value – not on managing infrastructure.1248 has therefore determined a real gap in the IoT Market: Device Management (DM), aservice to automate the life-cycle of IoT infrastructure. DM manages edge devices (e.g.connected streetlights, pig feeders or home thermostats) & the gateways connecting them tothe Internet. DM includes secure device “onboarding”, version management, uptimemonitoring, triage and diagnosis.In particular we are focussed on Universal DM, i.e. one service able to manage multipleheterogeneous IoT edge standards. Fully-automated DM could bring a step-change solution toa problem faced by all IoT services as they scale.It’s a huge market: Globally there are already more connected devices than people, withnumbers growing at a CAGR of 25% [Cisco]. The ratio of connected-devices to humans isincreasing by 10x each decade. At the turn of this century, people had one connected deviceeach (a PC). Today they have 10 or more connected devices each. IoT continues that journeyto 100+ devices each in the 2020’s. These cannot be managed manually, because we humansare increasingly time-poor.