Eurotech is a global company focusing on embedded computers and Pervasive Computing, which combines three key factors: the miniaturisation of computers capable of processing information; their spread in the real world - in buildings and machinery, on board vehicles, on persons and in the environment; and their ability to network and communicate. Year founded: 1992 Revenue: $69 million (2014) BIT: ETH

Secomea is a privately owned Danish company and one of the market leaders on Office Network Security. Over the years, Secomea has built a strong line of Firewall/VPN and Remote Device Management solutions with a unique emphasis on making the solutions easy to install, setup and use. Year founded: 2008

ei3 powers turnkey, premium machine-builder Industrial Internet programs with its scalable multi-tenant platform. We connect to thousands of industrial devices in more than 150 countries to gather data, compute analytics and deliver actionable information in a white-labeled user experience. ei3‘s solutions improve asset performance, increase yield, transform service business, predict maintenance, and reduce energy consumption.

BeagleBoard.org Foundation (BeagleBoard) is a US-based non-profit corporation supporting a community of Open Source software and hardware developers producing small, affordable and low-power computers ideal for physical and network interactions.

Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) focus on transforming bits of data collected at the edge of a pervasive distributed system into actionable information and knowledge for business decision makers and end users. These transformations are driving the biggest change in industry since the steam engine! One of the most important aspects of IoT vision is that smart objects communicate effectively with each other and with applications residing in data centers or the cloud. Eurotech develops and offers the technical building blocks required to build distributed systems of devices and sensors to be effectively interconnected with IT infrastructures. Eurotech solutions are a combination of hardware, Firmware, operating systems, programming frameworks and external infrastructure that enable customers focus on their core activities.

Generally, IoT is seen as a very broad concept originating from M2M and other technologies. At a higher level IoT is often divided into two categories; Applications requiring human interaction, characterized as Human IoT (HIoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT). Common for both IIoT and HIoT is that an ideal roll out of technologies would require IPv6, and in a perfect world this would include pathways to include the huge installed base of legacy industrial devices. Mandatory elements of the IIoT would also be end-to-end security, no single point of failure, autonomous node and application discovery just to mention a few objectives typically identified by IT professionals.

ei3 develops and hosts an Internet of Things Platform-as-a-Service for global brand owners, manufacturers and machine builders to achieve savings by applying ei3‘s IoT technologies Founded in 1999 to deliver the Industrial Internet, ei3 delivers a mature line of solutions that create business value by improving asset utilization, powering service & aftermarket programs, saving energy and improving quality. A leader within the fields of the Industrial Internet, Industrie 4.0 and Machine-to-Machine communications, ei3 has been named by Gartner as a cool vendor in 2016, been on the M2M 100 every year published, and acknowledged by the US Department of Energy as an Energy Star Service Provider of Excellence.

A pioneer in the IoT industry, BeagleBoard provides solutions that result in rapid prototypes and avoids all barriers to production. By engaging a broad developer ecosystem, challenges faced by individual development efforts have likely already been seen and resolved. A network of hardware and software consultants are highly experienced around BeagleBoard.org designs and are prepared to solve any development gaps you might encounter. BeagleBone is a true open hardware, community-supported embedded computer for developers and hobbyists. Ride the 1GHz edge with the Sitara™ ARM® Cortex-A8 processor, boot Linux in under 10 seconds and get started on development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable.

ITT Exelis, TBM Rail Group, TEB

Bosch, Meincke, Novax

Bobst, Milacron, Lenze, Hilton Worldwide, B & W Megtec, Pro Mach, Graphic Packaging International, Sonoco, Amcor, Bemis, Klockner, Paperworks, Paceworx

GE, Noah, TI