Adroit Technologies is a privately held software development company that has been developing award winning real-time software for the industrial automation markets for over 25 years. The principal activities of the company are product development, consulting and solutions development, primarily in the industrial sector. Year founded: 1989 Revenue: $11 - 100 million (2014 est.)

Adesto, previously Echelon, is a leading global provider of advanced semiconductors and embedded systems for IoT. Our innovative technologies are used by more than 5,000 customers worldwide who are creating the latest connected solutions across industrial, transportation, consumer, medical and communications markets.

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

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.

Andoit Technologies believes that in the year 2020, the world will be more connected, wireless networks will connect more machines than people and M2M technology will help us to be more energy and cost efficient, safer and more secure. This is the era of connected intelligence. With over 25 years’ experience in delivering scalable SCADA solutions into industries such as water and waste water, utilities, oil and gas, mining, telecommunications and a host of other industries, Adroit Technologies was placed to leverage its SCADA solution and build the Adroit M2M platform. Adroit’s Agent/Object architecture within the I/O Server offers a lot more built-in functionality such as scripting, transacting data into databases etc. saving users massive development time.

Through expert design, unparalleled systems expertise and proprietary intellectual property (IP), Adesto enables our customers to differentiate their systems where it matters most for IoT: better efficiency, greater reliability and security, integrated intelligence and lower cost.

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.

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.

Star Refrigeration, EDF-Energy NGL, Servelec Controls

ITT Exelis, TBM Rail Group, TEB

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