As Internet of Things (IoT) devices come down in price, they’re being adopted more quickly. Estimates say that there could be as many as 75 billion IoT devices in homes and businesses by 2025, with a potential economic footprint exceeding $11 trillion. If you’re thinking of a career in this new frontier of interrelated machines, here are 12 companies to know about.
Location: Chicago, IL
Jiobit is the world’s smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world’s smallest real-time location tracking product.
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Location: Boston, MA
Enevo works with its customers to transform the financial, environmental and social impact of waste. Founded in 2010, Enevo began providing waste data from dumpster sensors using its proprietary analytics software. Enevo now provides full management of waste and recycling services for restaurant, retail and commercial property customers throughout North America. It provides the first predictive end-to-end solution that automates the whole planning and operations of waste and recycling logistics.
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Location: Chicago, IL
Cooler Screens is creating the largest retail point of sale media platform in the world.With its digitized in-store planograms, products never look disorganized, hidden or out of stock again. The product takes advantage of the convergence of brick-and-mortar with e-commerce, offering real-time and algorithmic pricing and promotions.
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Location: Boston, MA
SimpliSafe Home Security is a disruptive tech company that designs, engineers, and sells wireless security alarm systems, cameras and services for houses, apartments, and other commercial properties. The systems are an inexpensive, easy-to-install alternative to traditional home security options.
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Location: Santa Monica, CA
Inspire’s mission is to drive forward a brighter energy future by simplifying consumer adoption of clean energy and smart home technologies. Disrupting the one-size-fits-all utility model, Inspire’s groundbreaking smart home subscription seamlessly combines personalized clean energy plans with best-in-class smart devices.
Location: New York, NY
Wink aims to make the IoT more easily adoptable by users with an app that can communicate with a wide range of smart home devices made by other manufacturers. This means simple controls to monitor and manage everything in a user’s home.
100% of Wink employees believe they are paid fairly.
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Location: Bellevue, WA
Point Inside produces indoor maps to enable location-centric digital strategies across industries.For ten years, it has introduced products of increasing complexity that provide more than just data; they offer insight into how people and businesses use their locations most effectively.
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Location: Palo Alto, CA
Flutura is an AI solutions company focused on improving two core business objectives: asset uptime and operational efficiency. It does this with Cerebra, its AI Platform tuned for industrial IoT in oil and gas, specialty chemicals, and heavy machinery manufacturing industries, powering connected asset and connected operations use cases.
Location: Santa Clara, CA
MagicCube is a device independent IoT security platform that protects against on-device, cloud, and network attacks. The MagicCube solution secures digital transactions on any device, in transit, and in the cloud with the same level of security as device hardware solutions without the complexity and cost associated with hardware deployments.
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ARM Holdings is the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property supplier and as such is at the heart of the development of digital electronic products. The ARM business model involves the designing and licensing of IP rather than the manufacturing and selling of actual semiconductor chips.
“Very elite team with amazing achievements, pedigree and skill level, yet very down to earth, respectful and valuing others’ expertise.”
87% of Arm employees say they look forward to interacting with their coworkers
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Samsara is an IoT platform combining hardware, software, and cloud to bring real-time visibility, analytics, and AI to operations. Their growing suite of solutions include vehicle telematics, driver safety, mobile workflow and compliance, asset tracking, and industrial process controls – all in an integrated, open, real-time platform.
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Eero offers a Wi-Fi system for household use. A set of three Eeros covers the typical home. They work in unison to deliver hyper-fast, super-stable WiFi to every nook of every room. Users can stream video or email friends from anywhere in their home, as well as the backyard.