Following to the evolution of the internet, from fixed connections to mobile connections, now the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as the next big thing, with 25 billion devices worldwide predicted to be connect to the internet in 2015 and 50 billion by 2020.
To capture the huge potential of IoT, the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) will launch NETPIE, a network platform for IoT. This platform aims to provide support for general IoT developers.
Panita Pongpaiboon, the project leader of NETPIE, explained that it is a cloud platform designed to facilitate the communication between different devices -- or things -- within the IoT network.
NETPIE on the platform offers a service beneficial to developers as it allows devices to communicate with each other, with developers having no concern over where the devices are located," explained Panita. "The developers just put the NETPIE library on their device which then takes care of all the connections. They don't need to worry about the server and storage nor the configuration of remote access for the device of the internet connection, as they would typically do, in the past usually fixing public Internet Protocol (IP) or installing the port forwarding in the router or registering with the dynamic Domain Name System (DNS) service provider