Mobile Internet access: Rich online content, convenient and timely communication tools enrich our fragmentation time. Watches 'online': From Wi-Fi, GPS to cellular data network support, to run outdoors can finally get rid of Mobile phones. Cars 'on the Internet': Although the era of unmanned driving has not yet arrived, it is not far away. Tables and chairs are also 'on the Internet': seemingly inanimate object, also silently recording and life-related data.
Gartner's 'Cool Vendors in IoT 'Thingification' (a cool provider of the Internet of Things) predicts that by 2026 there will be 30 billion 'things' wireless connections, and in 2018 this number is less than 7 billion. The most authoritative IT research and consulting firm, Gartner, will publish the 'Cool Vendor' list in various segments of the IT industry each May.
Cool Vendor Cool Vendor is a direction of Gartner’s research business. This research does not constitute an exhaustive list of suppliers in any technology field, but aims to highlight interesting, new and innovative suppliers, products and Services. 'Connectivity at Any Price Point, in Any Location' is the theme of this year's 'Cool Vendor' list. This year's selection focuses on bringing IoT intelligence to marginalization or low. Cost of materials.
For cool suppliers in the Internet of Things, Gartner's selection criteria and focus are not the same each year. For example, the theme of 2016 is ultra-low-cost Wi-Fi equipment that supports cloud services (Lexin was selected). How to quickly use existing resources to develop IoT prototypes and small projects (downstream companies in the Lexin ecological chain).
Since 2016, Lexin Espressif Systems has been selected as Gartner's cool supplier list and has been in the Gartner research report for three consecutive years.
Gartner's annual 'cool suppliers' list is dedicated to discovering emerging startups, and will not repeat the previous few years. However, we noticed that in 2016, four companies on the IoT cool supplier list were selected. Among them, only Lexin has been reported and cited by this list for three consecutive years.
In 2016, the reason why Lexin was selected on the Gartner list was:
Provides a complete Wi-Fi solution on a small piece of stamp-sized board (ESP8266), but costs less than $2. It brings a whole new low-cost IoT application to real life.
In 2017, Gartner commented on Lexin:
'The equipment based on the Lexin chip platform is now at the core of many low-cost Wi-Fi projects, including Zentri and pycom (which was listed on the Gartner Cool Cooler list in 2017), which has exceeded our expectations and it Obviously has become a mainstream supplier. '
In 2018, Gartner once again mentioned Lexin:
At present, many Internet of Things platforms and service providers have made compatibility and recommendation for their Wi-Fi chips. Due to its unique cost structure and uncompromising quality, it has attracted Internet of Things developers and become their first choice.
In more than 100 countries, through the easy-to-use tool chain, 'Lexin' can provide rapid prototype and fast IoT connectivity for SMBs.
And introduced the latest flagship product ESP32 series:
LeXin integrated support for keyword recognition on its Wi-Fi chip, allowing developers to provide more diversified voice interaction capabilities for their IoT design, plus additional digital signal processor (DSP) chips to connect To voice service providers in the cloud, the company will support more advanced cloud-based voice assistance.
ESP32 is approved by many voice service providers, including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Baidu Duer and Alibaba. LeXin expects to double its shipments in 2018. Its ongoing commitment to cost and performance will make it A better partner and supplier.
Finally mentioned who should pay attention to Lexin: The person in charge of technical product management responsible for deploying wireless connectivity in the product should consider 'Lexin', which is less than $2 per module, although it is simple, but it can help connect many others' Lifeless devices are intelligent.
From the report, it is easy to see that in order to maintain competitiveness and attractiveness in the evolving IoT ecosystem, Lexin continues to develop new solutions. 'Low cost', 'High quality' and 'Continuous innovation' are fun Xin based on the IoT market and quickly penetrated the excellent genes.