Today’s announcement of the Eurotech sale of its Parvus division to Curtiss-Wright represents an all-in bet by Eurotech on the growing Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M market in general. The approximate $38M in capital will allow Eurotech to further develop and support its portfolio of the High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC), and “green” highly-efficient super computing products required at the edge of device networks as well as the cloud resources that support them.
In the next 3-years we can expect that strategies and actions such as those undertaken by Eurotech will be the rule rather than the exception. One limiting factor for rapid M2M adoption is that the billions of things that will be connected communicate over a myriad number of protocols, frequencies, and methods with diverse data structures. At the same time, there are often strict security requirements to be followed. In these cases, gateway devices such as Eurotech’s Reliagate platform perform the necessary conversion, aggregation, and security functions. Eurotech is not alone with their increased focus on M2M gateway platforms as they collaborate with IBM in support of the MQTT protocol used in gateway middleware deployments. Competition is increasing for edge computing software and hardware however. At Oracle’s Open World event last week, Freescale and Oracle announced a One Box platform collaborative product that includes Freescale processors and Java SE and Java Embedded Suite. The OneBox platform is directly target at M2M gateway applications in consumer/home, medical, mobile, and industrial markets.
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