MachNation Releases IoT Edge ScoreCard, Reviews 17 IoT Vendors

MachNation recently announced the availability of its IoT Edge ScoreCard for 2019, a detailed rating of 17 Internet of Things (IoT) edge platform vendors. “MachNation's second annual IoT Edge ScoreCard is the industry's most thorough review of IoT edge platforms,” said Steve Hilton, president and analyst, MachNation. “Enterprises must understand these platforms' strengths and weaknesses, because we estimate that more than 75 percent of all industrial IoT deployments use edge capabilities.” MachNation's ScoreCard contains several graphics to help clarify the strengths of IoT edge platform vendors' solutions. The ScoreCard ranks vendors using 17 detailed technical and business criteria. “Based on customer demand, we've included summary figures in this year's ScoreCard describing vendors' primary edge capabilities including edge visualization, edge analytics, edge data processing, edge data storage, hypervisor/OS, edge management, and edge hardware,” said Samuel Hale, analyst and head of IoT platform testing, MachNation.