Xively (formerly known as Cosm and Pachube) is an
Internet of Things (IoT) platform owned by Google. Xively offers product companies a way to connect products, manage connected devices and the data they produce, and integrate that data into other systems. It is pronounce
"zively"(rhymes with lively).
History
In 2007, London architect Usman Haque founded Pachube (pronounced
Patch bay) as a data infrastructure and community for the Internet of Things. Following the nuclear
accidents in Japan in 2011, Pachube was used by volunteers to interlink Geiger counters across the country to monitor the fallout. In July 2011, Pachube announced that they had been acquired by LogMeIn and renamed to Cosm. Cosm came out of beta development and was rebranded as Xively to become a Public Cloud for the IoT in May 2013.
Google purchased Xively from LogMeIn on March 20, 2018.
Products and services
Xively Cloud Services
A
Platform as a Service
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built for the IoT. According to their website, this includes directory services, data services, a trust engine for security, and web-based management application. Xively's messaging is built on a
publish-subscribe protocol called
MQTT
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. The
API
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supports
REST
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,
WebSocket
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s, and
MQTT
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.
Xively Business Services
The Xively Professional Services team has helped numerous companies successfully deploy IoT connected products into the market.
Xively Partner Network
Xively has partnered with chipset companies such as
ARM
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,
Atmel and
TI as well as solution providers and IoT industry alliances like OASIS.
Awards and industry recognition
* Best Cloud-Based Technology for Mobile
014, GSMA Mobile World Congress* The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in The Internet of Things
014, Fast Company* Battle of the Platforms: Best Enabling Non Platform Technology
013 & 2014, M2M Conferenceref>
References
External links
*
Xively GitHub API libraries
Cloud platforms
Online databases
Internet of things companies
Internet properties established in 2007
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