Best IoT Software for Startups
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What is IoT Software for Startups?
Internet of Things (IoT) software is a form of technology that allows for connected devices to communicate with each other over the internet. It generally consists of various hardware and software components such as sensors, wireless networks, and databases. With the help of IoT software, data can be collected from multiple sources for further analysis and it can also be used to control devices remotely. IoT software also offers advantages such as improved efficiency and better security for connected devices. Compare and read user reviews of the best IoT software for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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TRACTIAN
Tractian
Tractian is the Industrial Copilot for maintenance and reliability, providing a cutting-edge platform designed to prevent unplanned downtime, boost operational efficiency, and enhance maintenance capacity. Trusted by global brands such as Bosch, Kraft Heinz, Carrier, Hyundai, Johnson Controls, and P&G, Tractian combines condition monitoring, energy efficiency, and a CMMS into a comprehensive, mobile-first solution. With Tractian, you can: Monitor real-time vibration, temperature, runtime, and RPM across critical assets Get real-time alerts and detailed diagnostics to address potential issues before they lead to failures Digitize workflows for streamlined work order management, planning & scheduling, and materials management Optimize energy consumption for improved sustainability and cost savings -
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Epicor Connected Process Control
Epicor Software
Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC), formerly eFlex Systems, provides manufacturers a flexible, no-code/low-code MES solution. No programming or special skills required. Digital work instructions, with multi-media capabilities, along with the ability to integrate virtually any device with communication capabilities, provides 100% historical record of the product and the process. Providing data insight, from production reports, to part history, quality summary and more — address issues quickly, minimize waste and disruptions. Whether you start small in subassembly areas, an entire line, or apply enterprise wide - we work with manufacturers of all sizes and needs. Hosted on prem or in the cloud, you decide what's best for your operations. -
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RaimaDB
Raima
RaimaDB is an embedded time series database for IoT and Edge devices that can run in-memory. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS. Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments. RaimaDB is a high-performance, cross-platform embedded database designed for mission-critical applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing markets. It offers a small footprint, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments, and supports both in-memory and persistent storage configurations. RaimaDB provides developers with multiple data modeling options, including traditional relational models and direct relationships through network model sets. It ensures data integrity with ACID-compliant transactions and supports various indexing methods such as B+Tree, Hash Table, R-Tree, and AVL-Tree. -
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Vialatm
Vialatm
Simple and flexible GPS tracking and IoT platform. Basic functionality is free of charge. Vialatm is an easy-to-use web service with key features: one platform for GPS tracking and IOT; wide range of vehicle/personal trackers and mobile applications; work with BLE sensors and IoT devices; access via Web, Android, and IOS applications, with the possibility of receiving push events notifications; reports and graphs to monitor and analyze the operation of objects; convenient interface for defining event notifications; opportunity to structure objects into groups; creating your users and assigning roles for them; creating links for external observers (for an object or group of objects); a built-in scripting language that allows you to customize the business logic of the platform flexible; access via REST API for enhanced capabilities and integration with other systems; interface in 12 languages (no problem to quickly add a new language).Starting Price: $0 -
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FactoryStudio
Tatsoft
Tatsoft’s FactoryStudio gives you the tools to rapidly design powerful and secure industrial applications! Features: real-time data modeling, data logging, MQTT broker/client/spB, audit trail, alarms & events, visual SQL query database gateway, high-performance smart displays, HTML5 dashboards, WPF drawing tools, iOS app, trends & annotations, reporting & more! You can program scripts in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript and Python. With ZERO install on the client side, and only 2 minutes install server side, you can be up and building performance improving applications in no time! Includes dozens of built-in native protocol drivers to PLCs, DCSs, and support for other industry standards, like OPC and MQTT. Need a driver we don’t have yet? We also have a toolkit for protocol driver development! FactoryStudio can act as your data hub for everything in your industrial ecosystem: your link between IT and OT, your real-time devices, and your SQL data sources with easy data-bindingStarting Price: $960 one-time fee -
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EMQX
EMQ Technologies
EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.Starting Price: $0.18 per hour -
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KACE by Quest
Quest Software
KACE® by Quest supports your unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy by helping you discover and track every device in your environment, automate administrative tasks, keep compliance requirements up-to-date and secure your network from a range of cyberthreats. Discover, manage and secure all your endpoints from one console as you co-manage your traditional and modern endpoints, including Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, and iOS and Android devices. KACE is a Unified Endpoint Management solution that offers a single point of control for managing IT systems across the entire organization, inside or outside your network. This comprehensive solution takes the stress out of keeping devices secure and compliant so you can do more.Starting Price: As low as $3/mo/device -
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Blynk
Blynk
Blynk is a low-code IoT software platform for connecting devices to the cloud, building mobile apps to remotely control and monitor them, and managing thousands of users and deployed products. It’s a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that helps businesses and individuals seamlessly progress from a prototype of a connected product to its commercial launch and further growth. Blynk provides a range of features facilitating the launch and maintenance of commercial projects, e.g. device provisioning, device management, data storage and visualization, alerts and notifications, user management with multi-level tree-like organization structures, OTA firmware updates. Blynk is hardware-agnostic which means customers can connect to the Internet any device from the broad list of supported hardware and use a suite of software products to monitor and control it.Starting Price: Free -
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Fieldcode
Fieldcode
Fieldcode is a field service management software that leverages 20 years of global expertise to deliver a fully automated, Zero-Touch process for field service operations. Fieldcode automates ticket handling from creation to technician assignment, reducing manual tasks and easing dispatcher workloads. With scalable, cost-effective pricing tiers for different business needs, Fieldcode helps businesses manage the entire field service lifecycle efficiently and improve customer experience.Starting Price: $25 per user per month -
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Open Automation Software
Open Automation Software
Liberate your Industry 4.0 data with Open Automation Software IIoT platform for Windows and Linux. OAS is truly an unlimited IoT Gateway for Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi 4, Windows IoT Core, and Docker deployments. Create HMI visualization for web, WPF, and WinForm C# and VB .NET applications. Log data and alarms to SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, MariaDB, SQLite, InfluxDB, and CSV files. MQTT Broker and Client interface along with cloud connectivity to Azure IoT and AWS IoT Gateway. Read and write data from remote Excel Workbooks. Alarm notification to email, SMS text, and voice messaging. .NET and REST API programmatic access. Allen Bradley ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix, Micro800, MicroLogix, SLC 500, and PLC-5. Siemens S7-200, S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200, and S7-1500. Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, and Modbus ASCII for Master and Slave communications. OPTO-22, MTConnect, and OPC UA, OPC DA.Starting Price: $495 one-time payment -
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Ayla IoT Platform
Ayla Networks
With a true agnostic approach, Ayla supports device connectivity across common transport protocols, connectivity paths, and cloud infrastructure platforms. Working seamlessly with HTTPS, MQTT, and CoAP Ayla's wide array of agents are pre-built to support embedded solutions, gateways, Android, Linux, BLE / phone, and cloud integrations. Ayla's Virtualization Engine enables a robust 'digital twin' of the physical device that lays the foundation for device management at IoT scale. With battle tested features including rules engine, firmware OTA updates, data policies, and more Ayla's Device Management provides full support for connected products throughout their lifecycle. With Ayla's application enablement offering strong business value can be extracted from the data in a variety of ways. Both a Web Framework and Mobile Platform SDK provide rapid delivery of both consumer mobile and business application development. In addition, Customer Care, Field Service, and Asset Tracking. -
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Litmus Edge
Litmus
A hardware agnostic, Industrial Data Platform that allows manufacturing companies to do more with their data. Industrial data infrastructure can be complex – and legacy systems and daisy-chained solutions don’t make it any easier. Putting data to work at scale is an added challenge. Doing it securely is even harder. So, here's a full-stack platform to solve industrial connectivity, data collection and processing, edge analytics, application marketplace, data integration, and beyond. Now try our product for free. 15 days of free trial to check all the features, free access to our documentation, how to guides, along with access to our experts. Wanted a fully loaded hosted instance for a starter node? Just let us know.Starting Price: 15000/5k data points/site -
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WolkAbout IoT Platform
WolkAbout Technology
In WolkAbout, we've built a complete IoT application enablement platform and user-friendly tools to allow system integrators, product and service providers to develop and rapidly bring industrial-grade digital applications to market. Additionally, our experienced team helps our clients with system integration and building customised apps that add value to their businesses. Our innovative spirit, deep industry insights and unmatched digital technology expertise are the foundation of everything we do. With 50+ employees and 8 centres globally, WolkAbout is transforming the value chains across industries ranging from manufacturing to oil&gas!Starting Price: $1500/month -
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MQTTRoute
Bevywise Networks
MQTT Broker built with passion to provide everything you need to deploy & scale your IoT application. REST API, dashboard and widgets, complete data store & more. A Quick snapshot of the IoT devices with client connection & disconnection and the most important data visualized with widgets on multiple dashboards. Alerts and coloured notations for the different value based triggers. Rules engine to transform MQTT Messages for effective M2M communication automation. Event & timer based rules to define & pattern match data and create actions. Secured publish and subscribe messaging model with two layer of security for device communication with SSL / TLS for the connectivity and device authentication with Username / password as an additional layer. Web security for data view. Broker High availability mode will provision multiple message broker in parallel to collect & publish messages from devices. This ensures 99.99% of data collection to be successful irrespective of any software.Starting Price: $299 one-time payment -
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Bevywise IoT Simulator
Bevywise Networks
Configure IoT simulator to send real time messages within a range or from a random set or values based on time and client. Simulate dynamic messages in two message formats such as TEXT and JSON like the real world IoT devices. Supports four types of dynamic values to be sent as a part of messages such as System variables timestamp and Client Identifier, Random, Range, Linear and Constant to flexibly vary the data published in every sequence to make it in sync with the real device. Configure IoT events with your predefined data set by uploading CSV file using CSV Importer. Every command sent to the edge device / IoT endpoint will have a response form the device once the action is done. Create the real scenario with an automatic response using Behavior simulation, an automatic response engine which will respond to the subscriber based on the received messages & topics. When the simulation request is received, the virtual connected devices start publishing the data to the endpoint.Starting Price: $599 per year -
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Gravio
Gravio
Gravio enables new ways to connect and interact with your environment through the power of IoT, sensors, edge computing, computer vision, and AI without programming knowledge. Gravio is an easy-to-use software platform that runs on Windows, macOS, or Linux. You can connect to various inputs and outputs, including some bundled IoT sensors, computer vision/AI cameras, and MQTT or HTTP APIs. Gravio is very easy to use without software programming knowledge. Gravio unlocks the power of connected technologies by connecting sensors, input devices, cameras, and APIs within a space, then continuously gathering and sharing their information, enabling new ways to interact with, learn from and enhance a physical space. To create these experiences, Gravio provides a powerful low-code/no-code environment to enable entrepreneurs and organizations of all sizes, across industries, to build custom, connected experiences for new and existing environments.Starting Price: $4.99 per month -
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HiveMQ
HiveMQ
HiveMQ is the most trusted enterprise MQTT platform, purpose-built to connect anything via MQTT, communicate reliably, and control IoT data. The platform can be deployed anywhere, on-premise or in the cloud, giving developers the flexibility and freedom they need to evolve as their IoT deployment grows. HiveMQ is reliable under real-world stress, scales without limits, and provides enterprise-grade security to meet the needs of organizations at any stage of digital transformation. The extensible platform provides seamless connectivity to the leading data streaming, databases, and data analytics platforms, plus offers a custom SDK for a perfect fit in any stack. -
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Armis
Armis Security
Armis, the leading asset visibility and security company, provides the industry’s first unified asset intelligence platform designed to address the new extended attack surface that connected assets create. Fortune 100 companies trust our real-time and continuous protection to see with full context all managed, unmanaged assets across IT, cloud, IoT devices, medical devices (IoMT), operational technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and 5G. Armis provides passive cyber asset management, risk management, and automated enforcement. Armis is a privately held company and headquartered in California. -
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SkySpark
SkyFoundry
SkyFoundry’s software solutions help clients derive value from their investments in smart systems. Our SkySpark analytics platform automatically analyzes data from automation and control systems, metering systems, sensors and other smart devices to identify issues, patterns, deviations, faults and opportunities for operational improvements and cost reduction. SkySpark helps building owners and operators “find what matters” in the vast amount of data produced by today’s smart systems.Starting Price: $60.00/one-time -
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FreeRTOS
FreeRTOS
Developed in partnership with the world’s leading chip companies over a 15-year period, and now downloaded every 170 seconds, FreeRTOS is a market-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontrollers and small microprocessors. Distributed freely under the MIT open source license, FreeRTOS includes a kernel and a growing set of IoT libraries suitable for use across all industry sectors. FreeRTOS is built with an emphasis on reliability and ease of use. With proven robustness, tiny footprint, and wide device support, the FreeRTOS kernel is trusted by world-leading companies as the de facto standard for microcontrollers and small microprocessors. With detailed pre-configured demos and Internet of Things (IoT) reference integrations, there is no need to determine how to setup a project. Quickly download, compile, and get to market faster. Our partner ecosystem provides a breadth of options including community contributions and professional support. -
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Azure IoT Edge
Microsoft
Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on Azure IoT Hub. Deploy your cloud workloads, artificial intelligence, Azure and third-party services, or your own business logic, to run on Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices via standard containers. By moving certain workloads to the edge of the network, your devices spend less time communicating with the cloud, react more quickly to local changes, and operate reliably even in extended offline periods. Deploy models built and trained in the cloud and run them on-premises. For example, if you deploy a predictive model to a factory camera to test for quality control and an issue is detected, IoT Edge triggers an alert and processes the data locally or sends it to the cloud for further analysis. Operate your edge devices reliably and securely, even when they’re offline or they have intermittent connectivity to the cloud. Azure IoT Edge device management automatically syncs the latest state of your devices. -
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balena
balena
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected Linux devices. We provide infrastructure for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Our tools are designed to work well together as a platform, but you can also pick and choose the components you need for your project, and adapt them to your particular use case. We know that no two IoT projects are the same and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. If you're eager to learn more about the inner workings of balena, you're in luck. The core balena platform, or what we call balenaCloud, encompasses device, server, and client-side software, all designed to get your code securely deployed to a fleet of devices.Starting Price: $109 per month -
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OpenBalena
balena
Use our building blocks to host your own device deployment and management server. Deploy and manage one device, or one million. Extend openBalena to fit your needs. Remotely update the software on your devices with a single command. Benefit from the power of virtualization, optimized for the edge. Access your devices regardless of their network environment. Adding devices to your fleet is a breeze. OpenBalena is a platform to deploy and manage connected devices. Devices run balenaOS, a host operating system designed for running containers on IoT devices, and are managed via the balena CLI, which you can use to configure your application containers, push updates, check status, view logs, and so forth. OpenBalena’s backend services, composed of battle-tested components that we’ve run in production on balenaCloud for years, can store device information securely and reliably, allow remote management via a built-in VPN service, and efficiently distribute container images to your devices. -
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FairCom EDGE
FairCom
FairCom EDGE simplifies the integration of sensor and machine data at the source – whether it’s a factory, water treatment plant, oil platform or wind farm. The world’s first converged IoT/Industrial IoT hub, FairCom EDGE unifies messaging, persistence and analytics with an all-in-one solution – complete with browser-based administration, configuration and monitoring. FairCom EDGE supports MQTT and OPC UA for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, SQL for interactive analytics and HTTP/REST for real-time monitoring. It continuously retrieves data from sensors and machines with OPC UA support, and receives messages from those with MQTT support. The data is automatically parsed, persisted and made accessible via MQTT and SQL.Starting Price: Free -
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Analance
Ducen
Combining Data Science, Business Intelligence, and Data Management Capabilities in One Integrated, Self-Serve Platform. Analance is a robust, salable end-to-end platform that combines Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Data Management into one integrated self-serve platform. It is built to deliver core analytical processing power to ensure data insights are accessible to everyone, performance remains consistent as the system grows, and business objectives are continuously met within a single platform. Analance is focused on turning quality data into accurate predictions allowing both data scientists and citizen data scientists with point and click pre-built algorithms and an environment for custom coding. Company – Overview Ducen IT helps Business and IT users of Fortune 1000 companies with advanced analytics, business intelligence and data management through its unique end-to-end data science platform called Analance. -
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NCP
NCP engineering
For individual workstations, freelancers or smaller installations, NCP Entry Clients offer a wide range of technical features and offer much more than a standard VPN. Our Solution Finder will help you find the right NCP product for your organization. No matter what hardware you use, whether you are looking for a solution for use in your own company or as a partner for your customers, for a few employees or large installations, we will guide you to the right product in just a few steps. With 30 years of experience in remote access environments, NCP is an excellent choice for a complete VPN solution that meets the needs of users, IT administrators and management. NCP’s remote access solutions are fully-automated, highly secure and cost efficient covering important benefits. -
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Embiot
Telchemy
Embiot® is a compact, high performance IoT analytics software agent for IoT gateway and smart sensor applications. This edge computing application is small enough to integrate directly into devices, smart sensors and gateways, but powerful enough to calculate complex analytics from large amounts of raw data at high speed. Internally, Embiot uses a stream processing model to enable it to handle sensor data that arrives at different rates and out of order. It has a simple intuitive configuration language and a rich set of math, stats and AI functions making it fast and easy to solve your analytics problems. Embiot supports a range of input methods including MODBUS, MQTT, REST/XML, REST/JSON, Name/Value and CSV. Embiot is able to send output reports to multiple destinations concurrently in REST, MQTT and custom text formats. For security, Embiot supports TLS selectively on any input or output stream, HTTP and MQTT authentication. -
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Sixgill Sense
Sixgill
Every step of the machine learning and computer vision workflow is made simple and fast within one no-code platform. Sense allows anyone to build and deploy AI IoT solutions to any cloud, the edge or on-premise. Learn how Sense provides simplicity, consistency and transparency to AI/ML teams with enough power and depth for ML engineers yet easy enough to use for subject matter experts. Sense Data Annotation optimizes the success of your machine learning models with the fastest, easiest way to label video and image data for high-quality training dataset creation. The Sense platform offers one-touch labeling integration for continuous machine learning at the edge for simplified management of all your AI solutions. -
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Azure Digital Twins
Microsoft
Azure Digital Twins is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables you to create a digital representation of real-world things, places, business processes, and people. Gain insights that help you drive better products, optimize operations and costs, and create breakthrough customer experiences. Easily model and create digital representations of connected environments with an open modeling language. Model buildings, factories, farms, energy networks, railways, stadiums—even entire cities. Bring these digital twins to life with a live execution environment that historizes twin changes over time. Unlock actionable insights into the behavior of modeled environments via powerful query APIs, and integrates with Azure data analytics. Open modeling language to create custom domain models of any connected environment using Digital Twins Definition Language. -
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Bosch IoT Suite
Bosch.IO
With Bosch IoT Suite you can create abstract representations of real-world assets or devices in the cloud. These digital twins comprise all the capabilities and aspects of their physical counterparts. By storing and updating the data, properties, and relationships of an asset and providing notifications of all relevant changes they allow you to keep the real and digital worlds in sync.