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Ayla Networks Announces IoT Platform Enhancements to Help Manufacturers Harness the IoT to Transform Their BusinessesCisco (News - Alert) Live conference-Ayla Networks, a global Internet of Things (IoT) platform for manufacturers, today announced enhancements to its IoT platform that will help propel manufacturers of connected products toward the next generation of the IoT. The Ayla IoT platform enhancements will enable manufacturers to forge closer customer relationships and improve their IoT return on investment (ROI). "In the seven years since founding Ayla, we've seen manufacturers' questions evolve from, 'How do we connect to the IoT?' to, 'Now that we're connected, what should we do next?'," said David Friedman (News - Alert), CEO and co-founder of Ayla Networks. "These latest enhancements to the Ayla IoT platform encourage greater consumer adoption and brand affinity. By continually advancing our Ayla IoT platform and ecosystem, we enable manufacturing businesses to evolve at the speed of IoT." The latest enhancements to the IoT platform include features designed to spur greater consumer adoption of connected products and to reduce operational costs. Specifically, the Ayla IoT platform enhancements include:
Although there's no clear definition of Internet of Things generations, IoT 1.0 can be seen as encompassing issues around getting connected, while IoT 2.0 involves using IoT data to transform everything from manufacturers' product design and manufacturing processes to pricing, sales and marketing, distribution, supply chains, product support and customer engagement. IoT 2.0 is also where manufacturers are expected to start seeing meaningful ROI for their IoT offerings, which will derive almost entirely from the data generated by connected products. IoT data can improve ROI through cost optimization and savings, such as reducing bill-of-materials (BOM) costs, reducing service costs and proactive support that boosts customer loyalty. Manufacturers can also use IoT data analytics for brand development, such as bolstering consumer relationships through greater brand affinity, and using real-world data on customer usage and behavior to design products better aligned with consumer preferences. Ayla Networks is in the Investments Pavilion at Cisco Live, the annual conference to be held June 25-29 in Las Vegas. The booth, one of the partner pavilions within the "World of Solutions" show area in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, is sponsored by Cisco Investments. Ayla will join 19 other Cisco Investments companies at the pavilion, where executives will meet with customers, partners, business leaders and members of Cisco's IT team. Cisco Investments, the venture-capital arm of Cisco Systems (News - Alert), invests in teams and technologies that improve how people work, live, play and learn. About Ayla Networks Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla's IoT platform provides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla is a member of the elite Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) (AWS) Partner Network, so all connected products running on the Ayla IoT cloud gain the security and availability benefits of the AWS cloud infrastructure. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com.
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