An IoT service platform is one of the four IoT layers, playing the...

1. An IoT service platform is one of the four IoT layers, playing the role of network management, application management and application development and application services. Referring to the internet sources and literatures, you are required to review and compare the following 5 widely used IoT cloud platforms.
   • Amazon Web Services IoT.
   • IBM Watson IoT Platform.
   • Microsoft Azure IoT Hub.
   • Google Cloud IoT.
   • Thingspeak IoT Platform

 

1) To present your review results, you can summarise how the followiing management functions are achieved in each of the above platform:

• Faulty management
• Discovery and registrations of devices
• Troubleshooting
• Network performance monitoring
• Security management
• Data storages
• Data processing

2) To compare their features, you can also generate a table to include the following aspects:

• Operating systems
• Applications protocols adopted
• Wireless networks supported
• Typical connectable things (types of end devices, gateways, data sources etc).
• Security types
• Services (eg PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS).
• Costs of use of the platform
• 2 examples of established applications

 

3) You can provide a brief summary about your overall findings and remarks about how you may choose an IoT platform for a specific IoT market or application.

 

References (you can find your own sources)

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/best-iot-platforms/

https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-platforms

https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-platforms/