Cisco IoT system, an AoT offering, can connect, manage, and control previously unconnected devices. Its broad portfolio of IoT infrastructure technologies and products gives deeper insights using analytics on IoT data and helps secure physical and digital assets. Organizations can innovate by creating and deploying IoT applications to the cloud using the Cisco IoT system. The 6 pillars of the system are:
- network connectivity,
- IOx and fox applications,
- data analytics,
- security,
- management and application, and
- application platform.
Cisco IOx brings together Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS), a networking operating system, and Linux, an open source platform. Cisco and SAS Edge-to-Enterprise IoT Analytics Platform bring together providers of sensors, applications, data analysis, and security providers, to get them and their assets to operate effectively together to gather, analyze, and deliver data and a shared experience. Cisco’s comprehensive set of IoT products and solutions helps organizations manage their IoT data efficiently. Cisco’s IoT services help organizations transform their operational network to an IP-based industrial network and IoT utilities services address the challenge of modernizing the electric grid with the Cisco services connected grid architecture methodology.