The central enabling technology for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is the IoT platform—it is the piece of web-resident software that lies between the Thing and the rest of the Internet. It allows a real-time, or near-real-time, interface to devices, by one or more users, from anywhere in the world. The ramifications of this type of interaction, whether user or device-initiated, are significant for every industry.

We have worked hand-in-hand with over 200 companies over the last eight years to help them deploy connected products that use the Internet of Things to create economic leverage. While some of our customers just want the fastest path to deploying an IoT feature set for a given product, most of them want BOTH reduced time to market AND to reuse the technologies and lessons-learned on subsequent efforts. This latter class of organization is one of the 69% of companies who see the Internet of Things as having a high or critical impact to their future (via Smart Industry).

I remember the first time I saw the health of my off-the-grid solar-powered battery bank from 1,500 miles away–I knew that my investment in renewable energy was intact and had the peace of mind that should something go wrong, I had the data at my fingertips to make educated decisions to rectify the situation. The Internet of Things (IoT) was transformative to my experience as a remote property owner.

Our vision is to connect every device in the world in a way that matters to people–with our Murano platform, our goal is to remove barriers to innovation for the Internet of Things (IoT) to see this vision become a reality. To foster this innovation, Exosite takes a fundamental stance of openness with our IoT platform tools and technologies: we publicly document our APIs, we support integrations with other software and platforms (including community-submitted integrations), we open-source software that lives on other’s products, we encourage re-use of community-sourced innovations, and we always strive to support the latest frameworks and design patterns.

I founded Exosite with the vision of connecting every device in the world in a way that matters to people. Not connectivity for connectivity’s sake, but connectivity with a purpose–with the mission of transformation. Many of our original team–all of whom are still with Exosite today–have product realization backgrounds. We were professional thing makers before starting and building Exosite. We knew first hand the challenges not only of product design, but also of manufacturing, deployment, support, and maintenance. When we created a new type of software, we did so by designing the workflows and the business environment surrounding device connectivity that would allow the full product life cycle of connected products to be a reality.

Exosite recently presented on Open Source Hardware at Minnebar - Minnesota's top (un)conference destination.

Most Engineers love to tinker - every so often someone at Exosite will put together some kind of office "efficiency" system that makes use of our Data Platform and Web Dashboards for remote monitoring and/or maintenance. Fun stuff - like office electricity power draw, coffee status, plant soil moisture, etc.... Depending on the engineer, they will use their favorite open source hardware device (e.g. Arduino, mbed, Fluid) to grab the data and put in online. The speed with which these open source hardware systems can be extended and deployed as part of a connected system really makes them fun to prototype with.

We are excited to make public that Exosite has partnered with Arrow Electronics (NYSE:ARW) to provide Arrow customers access to our cloud-based data platform technologies.

We recently migrated our back-end data processing services to a new version of the One Platform. The updates were made in response to user feedback, capacity/performance needs and extensibility planning - the result is a rocket under the hood that gives the platform scalability in all dimensions.

Texas Instruments came out with a neat $49 Chronos ez430 Wireless Watch Development Kit.  The dev kit is based on their low-power wireless + processor ez430 chipset but looks/works just like a real watch. Check out the public dashboard.

I get this question a lot - right after I think I've done a good job describing what we do at Exosite.  So, here it is:

We make it really easy for people to put sensor data on a web page.

Sure, it is a lot more than that, and it has a lot of ramifications, but that seems to be a good marriage of accuracy and digestibility.  A general way of saying could be: "We provide the software and interfaces to meaningfully connect data providers to information subscribers."

We here at Exosite have been working in the embedded systems and product design industry for over 20 years.  We've worked with it all - medical devices that are saving and sustaining lives, dual-redundant kill switches that know if a hot dog is posing as a finger, multi-channel oscopes that can tell when your car has the 1:100,000 manufacturer recall problem, massive electro magnets that count the new year's salmon run, golf ball tracking devices that never made it past spec - some really cool products and ideas.  One thing these devices all had in common - adding connectivity opens up new horizons on what can be done.

We’ve just updated Exosite Portals to 0.4.0.

We’ve just updated Exosite Portals to support multiple views-per-portal. This allows you to expose the data flowing in and out of the Portal in different ways for the different people who will be looking at it.

We’ve added an XMPP message interface to the OpenTether communication interfaces in the form of a chat bot named “Commander.”