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Building a revolutionary Internet of Things platform with a flexible cloud database
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Public Transportation Management
- Remote Asset Management
- Smart City Operations
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Connio Inc., a Canadian tech startup, aimed to develop an end-to-end IoT platform, CONNIO, to help enterprises and entrepreneurs bring innovative Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to market rapidly. The challenge was to manage the volume and variety of its data cost-effectively. To ensure that the CONNIO platform could support an explosion of instrumented devices and networking technologies, the company looked for a database foundation with the flexibility to meet its enterprise-level requirements. They needed a high-performance data layer capable of storing and processing a huge variety of unstructured data models. Support for stream computing was essential, and they looked for a NoSQL database solution that would enable them to query JSON data in-flight efficiently and cost-effectively.
About The Customer
Connio Inc. is a Canadian tech startup founded in 2014 as a spin-off of Inbiza Technology Solutions. The company provides a highly advanced network and device-agnostic IoT platform to telecommunications companies, service providers, and systems integrators. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the tech startup’s CONNIO platform has been used in a multitude of real-life projects to date, including the first smart city project in Turkey, developed by Türk Telekom. Connio was founded with one key aim: to help enterprises and entrepreneurs bring innovative Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to market rapidly.
The Solution
Connio selected IBM® Cloudant®—a fully managed JSON database service, built with Apache CouchDB™—to act as the data layer for its innovative IoT hosting platform. Cloudant stores all data in the nonproprietary, schemaless JSON format, and every document is easily accessible via standard HTTP—perfect for their cloud-based platform. For clients that needed private IoT clouds on-premise, Connio added support for IBM Cloudant Data Layer Local Edition to accommodate large-scale IoT projects with specific requirements. IBM Cloudant gives Connio a highly reliable, super-scalable, high-performance database in the cloud. As the data layer underlying the entire CONNIO platform for device and API management, Connio now relies on Cloudant to store billions of data points.
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