At the recent AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a new AWS Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform for manufacturers, service providers, and application developers to easily connect their products to the cloud. The AWS IoT platform, which is launching in beta provides data storing, processing and analyzing for a wide range of connected machines/devices such as cars, turbines, sensor grids and light bulbs.
AWS said that once devices connect to AWS IoT’s Device Gateway, manufacturers can set rules for how AWS IoT handles the data they send, and the actions they take when various conditions are met, such as sending an alert when a pressure sensor reports an unusually high reading or a motion detector is triggered.
In addition, AWS IoT provides an SDK that makes it easy for developers to use the AWS IoT functionality from connected devices, and from mobile and web applications. AWS IoT integrates with Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon Machine Learning and Amazon DynamoDB.
Through the new AWS Hardware Partner Program, a growing ecosystem of semiconductor manufacturers, including Broadcom, Intel, Mediatek, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments are offering IoT starter kits powered by AWS that include the AWS IoT SDK and hardware components that are ready to connect to AWS IoT.
Marco Argenti, Vice President, Mobile and IoT, AWS
The promise of the Internet of Things is to make everyday products smarter for consumers, and for businesses to enable better, data-driven offerings that weren’t possible before. World-leading organizations like Philips, NASA JPL, and Sonos already use AWS services to support the back-end of their IoT applications.
