Building a revolutionary Internet of Things platform with a flexible cloud database

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Emre Birol,
Founder and CEO,
Connio
Founded in 2014 as a spin-off of Inbiza Technology Solutions, Connio
provides a highly advanced network and device-agnostic IoT platform
to telecommunications companies, service providers and systems
integrators. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the tech startup’s CONNIO
platform has been used in a multitude of real-life projects to date,
including the first smart city project in Turkey, developed by Türk Telekom.
Business challenge
To enable its clients to get new IoT solutions
to market rapidly, Connio aimed to develop
an end-to-end IoT platform – but how could
it manage the volume and variety of its data
cost-effectively?
Transformation
Connio looked for a scalable, reliable and
cost-effective data layer to support its new
CONNIO IoT platform. Today, Connio stores
billions of data points in the cloud—helping
it launch its new IoT platform and take the
industry by storm.
Connio Inc.
Building a revolutionary
Internet of Things
platform with a flexible
cloud database
“IBM Cloudant enables
clients to create
data-driven applications
from vast networks
of devices.”
Emre Birol, Founder and CEO, Connio
Business benefits:
Avoids
capital spend with a data
layer in the cloud
Supports
explosive business growth
with instant scalability
Enables
Connio to focus on service
development and delight
its clients

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Harnessing the
power of the
Internet of Things
Canadian tech startup Connio Inc.
was founded with one key aim: to help
enterprises and entrepreneurs bring
innovative Internet of Things (IoT)
solutions to market rapidly.
To achieve this objective, the company
began developing CONNIO—a new
IoT platform that offers fully integrated
capabilities for application development,
big data analytics and usage-based
billing, with extreme data durability and
high availability data access.
To ensure that the CONNIO platform
could support an explosion of
instrumented devices and networking
technologies, the company looked for a
database foundation with the flexibility to
meet its enterprise-level requirements.
Emre Birol, Founder and CEO of Connio,
says: “To build a platform capable of
harnessing the full potential of the IoT,
we needed a high-performance data
layer capable of storing and processing a
huge variety of unstructured data models.
Support for stream computing was
essential, and we looked for a NoSQL
database solution that would enable us to
query JSON data in-flight efficiently and
cost-effectively.
“As a startup, minimizing our capital
spend is crucial. For that reason, we
targeted a cloud-based solution that
we could scale quickly and easily as the
user community for our CONNIO IoT
platform grew.”
Finding the right fit
After testing a range of NoSQL
databases, Connio selected IBM®
Cloudant®—a fully managed JSON
database service, built with Apache
CouchDB™—to act as the data layer for
its innovative IoT hosting platform.
Built to ensure that the flow of data
between an application and the database
remains highly performant, Cloudant
enables Connio to offer its clients
uninterrupted access to application data
both on- and offline.
Emre Birol recalls: “What initially attracted
us to Cloudant was its excellent web
API. Cloudant stores all data in the non-
proprietary, schemaless JSON format,
and every document is easily accessible
via standard HTTP—perfect for our
cloud-based platform.
“The built-in data replication and
synchronization ensures 24/7 availability,
while elastic scalability allows us to grow
on demand. Cloudant technology was
by far the best fit for us as IoT service
providers.”
To offer a solution for clients that needed
private IoT clouds on-premise, Connio
added support for IBM Cloudant Data
Layer Local Edition to accommodate
large-scale IoT projects with specific
requirements.
“Clients can now install Cloudant Local
in their own data centers to run their
own DBaaS—and still offer our CONNIO
platform as an application enablement
service to their customers, or for internal
development projects,” says Emre Birol.
“What initially attracted us to
Cloudant was its excellent web
API... Cloudant technology was
by far the best fit for us as IoT
service providers.”
Emre Birol, Founder and CEO, Connio

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• IBM Cloudant Data Layer Local Edition
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High performance,
low maintenance
IBM Cloudant gives Connio a
highly reliable, super-scalable,
high-performance database in the
cloud. As the data layer underlying the
entire CONNIO platform for device and
API management, Connio now relies on
Cloudant to store billions of data points.
Emre Birol comments: “Some of our
larger clients generate around half a
million data points every single day.
Thanks to the impressive scalability of
Cloudant, we are able to accommodate
huge volumes of data easily—we simply
scale up as and when we need to.
“What’s more, our multi-tenant Cloudant
solution means that we didn’t have to
make any infrastructure investments or
hire a full-time database administrator.
This enables us to keep our costs down
and focus on developing and improving
the CONNIO platform.
“Most impressive, however, is Cloudant’s
incredible schema flexibility, which
allows us to handle all of the different
data models generated by our clients’
different devices.”
Running a smart
city from the cloud
Supported by IBM Cloudant, the
CONNIO platform is taking the world
by storm. Connio is currently working
closely with Türk Telekom to track
devices and manage vertical applications
in the country’s first smart city project
in Karaman.
Storing billions of data points, the
CONNIO platform has allowed the city
to set up intelligent traffic monitoring,
parking, refuse collection and irrigation
systems—amongst others—to help
improve Karaman’s public services.
Emre Birol says: “The CONNIO platform
enables our clients to combine data
in exciting new ways. One particularly
exciting example of this is optimizing
street routes for ambulances with
ambulance location and traffic light
pattern data, helping get patients to
hospitals faster.”
He concludes: “We simply would
not be able to offer services for
large-scale, ground-breaking projects
like the Karaman smart city without
Cloudant. The IBM Cloudant data layer
fades into the background of our IoT
platform—enabling clients to create
data-driven applications from vast
networks of devices.
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