Startup to biggies; Creating plenty of IoT platforms

There are plenty of IoT clouds in the market. One of platform developer says "We’ve built an IoT cloud so you don’t have to" But the IoT builders need to choose IoT platform carefully which brings the time to development cost down, works well with developer's favorite/preferred hardware/semiconductors and the embedded software and many such electronics/computing components involved with IoT. And more importantly the IoT platform ensures the reliability and security of the system. To give you latest announcement in IoT platforms/clouds, here is some the announcement in Apr-May 2015: Samsung's ARTIK IOT platform comes with production-ready modules, software, development boards, drivers, tools, security features and cloud connectivity. ARTIK family integrated with embedded hardware security technology. The customisable ARTIK is offered in multiple configurations to meet applications such as wearable electronics and home automation systems, to smart lighting and industrial applications. ARTIK 1, the smallest IoT module currently available in the industry at 12mm-by-12mm combines Bluetooth/BLE connectivity and a nine-axis sensor. It designed for low-power, small form- factor IoT applications. ARTIK 5 is suggested for home hubs, drones and high-end wearables. It is powered by 1GHz dual-core processor and on-board DRAM and flash memory. ARTIK 10 has eight-core proces...