Cloud Computing: TheThings.io wants to be the Amazon Web Services for the Internet of Things

February 11, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Paul Sawers.

The current state-of-play with the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) offers a tantalizing glimpse into the future of ubiquitious computing, with Web-enabled thermostats, self-driving cars, and even connected kettles creeping into our daily lives. But for all the cool applications we’re starting to see in the real world, there needs to be a force that enables it all.

Launching this week, Barcelona-based TheThings.io is setting itself up to be the back-end platform of choice in the burgeoning Internet of Things industry — an “Amazon Web Services (AWS) for IoT companies,” for want of a better analogy. Indeed, just as AWS and similar cloud-computing services have enabled startups to scale faster and more affordably than they otherwise could, TheThings.io is hoping to help fledgling IoT companies launch to market quickly, with enough power and elasticity under the hood to cater for unprecedented levels of growth…

TheThings.io offers a full cloud-based back-end for data storage with servers currently based in Europe, though plans are afoot to expand these to the U.S. to minimize lags in trans-atlantic data transfers. Feeding into this, TheThings.io also serves up analytics, while promising full interoperability…

Read more from the source @ http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/11/thethings-io-wants-to-be-the-amazon-web-services-for-the-internet-of-things/