Platforms

Introduction#

In simple words the purpose of any IoT device is to connect with other IoT devices and applications (cloud-based mostly) to relay information using internet transfer protocols.

The gap between the device sensors and data networks is filled by an IoT Platform.

Kaa

Kaa is a good example of OpenSource IoT Platforms, it provides a data collection, notification and device to device communication for you.

Kaa device to device communication is based on Events and you can send events even into server instead of devices. as its documentation says:

The Kaa Events subsystem is designed to generate endpoint events in real time, send them to other endpoints of the same owner and to Kaa server for processing.