DeviceHub.net

DeviceHub.net released a remote reading solution for Smart Meters and is now about to take the whole business industry by storm. This platform is bound to offer a multitude of benefits to businesses and it comes as the solution for fast and reliable install.

This platform offers see real-time usage for individual or group meters.  It can also manage consumers and generate invoices.

The clients that will most benefit from the solution are energy suppliers, facility management businesses or constructors and system integrators.

"We always searched for way to make complicated simple. This solution assures fast adoption of smart meters" said Ionut Cotoi, CEO DeviceHub.net.

2017 is the year when Romania starts installing at large scale, smart meters that help them replace manual work done by thousands of people. Also, the government is imposing monthly meter checking which would involve a huge cost for energy companies; according to a legislative initiative which modifies and updates the energy and natural gas law. (no 123/2012).

DeviceHub.net is on a mission to change the world of computing, the way people are thinking about the internet of things today and improve the way internet of things applications are built in the future. They are not talking about the incremental change, but about a revolution wave in computing on a large, global scale, at 10-fold increase in speed and ease of deployment and a 10-fold decrease in cost.

About DeviceHub.net:

Curiosity does not always kill the cat, as the saying says. Quite the opposite, we may say, if we look at the story of DeviceHub.net: it helps you build a successful IoT startup from scratch.

DeviceHub.net is a proud alumni of the Startup Spotlight competition & mentoring program. 35% of our participants closed deals as a result of attending the program (check out the Startup Spotlight Progress Report for more). And the next one could by you! Apply by October 30, 2015 and get ready to close deals & compete for the 20k cash prizes.

The story of DeviceHub.net begins more than four years ago, when Ionut Cotoi (CEO), Constantin Craciun (CTO) and Cristiana Bogateanu (CMO), the three co-founders, got together with the idea of creating the first Romanian “hacker-space”, using a concept very well known in the US. In a nutshell, they wanted to create a workspace where electronics and programming enthusiasts can work together (the project is currently known as the Technical Youth Creation Centre – inventeaza.ro).

Experienced developers with more than 15 years of experience in both software and hardware (but also with strong marketing and management skills – this being Cristiana’s case), the three co-founders of DeviceHub were also working on their own hardware projects and felt the need of a cloud solution to ensure the communication between all these devices.

“We used Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other hardware platforms to build devices that measure the electricity produced through alternative sources, the pulse or the body temperature, among others”, they say.

And then came the moment when things started to fall into place: if they were making and selling hardware and software that could be accessed remotely, why not build their own solution that could be used over and over again?

That was the starting point for what is DeviceHub.net today, an integrated solution for IoT projects development, combining cloud integration with business intelligence and providing an unprecedented level of visibility not only into line efficiency, but also into all factory operations. This is possible because DeviceHub.net has a unique interface that gathers data and instantly generates smart reports at factory lever. Plan managers can thus have immediate access to data such as equipment efficiency, line efficiency, data visualization tools, and alerts from any location.

The Co-Founders of DeviceHub.net tap into one of the hottest segments in the tech world today, a technology that is estimated to generate 4,6 trillion dollars in value at stake by 2024 through the efficient management of resources, improving employees’ productivity, new business models and increasing the benefits for end users.

“The IoT movement transcends the limits of M2M communication, enabling even devices that do not include the necessary components to connect to the Internet by using an intermediary, non-intrusive device. The Internet of Things is an emerging market and it is certain that the number of connected devices will grow steadily in the years to come”, as DeviceHub.net explains.

According to them, the solution provided by DeviceHub.net is designed for companies willing to improve their production processes in all sectors and to develop smarter products and services. Leading companies are already integrating IoT solutions for reducing production time and increasing scale production, in order to be more competitive and to easily adapt to the unpredictable changes of the environment.

“Embracing technological innovation brings about more opportunities for growth. Most specific, we address all the manufacturers and stakeholders from the electrical equipment and automation industry or related fields, system integrators, public institutions, as well as developers interested to benefit from the advantages provided by adopting IoT solutions for business or own use”, the Co-Founders explained.

DeviceHub now has 5 enterprise clients and a community of over 2,000 active developers that contributed to the platform with integration of both hardware and web technologies. They offer data gathering, cloud logic, triggers, real time remote control, and analytics, all these in a friendly user interface. Besides, anyone who is curious to experiment in the area of IoT can use the DeviceHub.net platform.

DeviceHub gained momentum and boosted their development by attending various startup programs, competitions & accelerator programs. It all started back in 2014 with Startup Spotlight which opened their door for the hub:raum WARP accelerator in Krakow. And they did not stop here: they further on attended Challenge UP! And they are currently part of the 2015 cohort of Seedcamp.

“Startup Spotlight helped us get into the hub:raum WARP accelerator in Krakow in December 2014. At the end of the program we were the winners and this came as a confirmation that our mission is realistic and useful. However, we also realised that we needed to work harder and do better. That is why we wanted to get more insights on how we can make our business valuable for our customers and we applied for Challenge UP!, hoping to get in touch with the big players in our industry. We were excited to find out that we were chosen among the best 12 IoT startups in Europe”.

Attending various programs helped them not only with mentoring and connections, but also with securing the financing needed for their further development. So far, they received a 5000 EURO cash prize at the end of Startup Spotlight, followed by an 80.000 EUR investment raised from hub:raum.

And their story goes on: the DeviceHub.net Co-Founders are now discussing with potential investors in the field of IoT and manufacturing from the UK and Israel. And their plan for the future is nothing but ambitious: to make DeviceHub.net an open source platform for ambitious developers all around the world.

When we learned about the Kitchen Budapest hackathon for home automation we just knew  we have to attend. The promise of open source hardware, young innovators and good programming skills is what convinced us and we gladly accepted the invitation. The topic of the hackathon “Home, smart home” was a perfect match for us, so we provided contestants with the DeviceHub.net Internet of Things platform for rapid prototyping, as well as assisted them during the whole quest.

The first hackathon took place in Budapest in the Kitchen Budapest revenue, where we benefited from their amazing electronics workplace in order to create cases for prototypes during the event.

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Hackathon'15 at KiBu

Jó hír! Már el is készült a Kitchen Budapest 24 órás hackathonjának moodvideója!Ezzel a klassz videóval Ti is bepillantást nyerhettek abba, hogy milyen volt az az izgalmas 24 óra, amikor csodálatos ötletek és ezek megvalósulásaiként különböző prototípusok születtek Smart Home témában.Köszönjük a videót a BEET csapatának!Jó szórakozást! :)Great news! The video is ready of the 24-hour-long hackathon at KiBu!Watch this video and you can have an insight of the best moments of this inspiring 24 hours, in which great ideas have been developed and new prototypes were born in the topic of Smart Home.Thanks for the video to the team of BEET!Enjoy! :)

Posted by Kitchen Budapest on Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The event as such debuted with some interesting presentations from Telekom and Fablab Budapest representatives aimed to establish the context and the vision of the hackathon. Afterwards, we got together with all the attending teams to the technical part: the very innovative software framework that Peter Varo did for the contestants that makes working with the Raspberry Pi a breeze and the DeviceHub.net platform intro addressing the key concepts and APIs. It was after the introductory part that we really moved to action. Firstly, the teams did a brainstorming session to see what ideas they got and what they could do in the 24h available. Some wild ideas appeared pretty quick, which we helped refine through the night and they excitedly started working on both hardware and software.

Towards the morning the real hackathon challenges kicked in: sleep deprivation and pesky bugs, but we gained some much needed strength with a healthy breakfast and the teams were ready for the last push before the presentations.

The highly awaited moment arrived and each team presented their project. “I was impressed by their dedication to make it look and feel like an Apple keynote. All the exhaustion seemed to disappear and we felt like the prototypes have been in work for a few weeks before showing them in front of us. Of course, sadly, somebody had to win, but in our eyes each team did an amazing effort and project.”, said Constantin Craciun, CTO & Co-Founder DeviceHub.net who represented our team at the KIBU hackathon.

The winner team of the Budapest hackathon was the team that created an elegant device which showed the relative location of your loved ones combining a nice UI and a non-intrusive approach to solve such a sensitive issue.

After a week, a second event of this kind took place in Szeged. The teams were once again amazing and the winner was a simple approach of home gateway that could be used to assure both security and increased comfort of the home owner.

“All in all, it was a cool experience. We learned a lot from the teams and we really hope that the teams went home confident that they are capable of building interesting prototypes that could one day become businesses. We did our best to make them feel so”, concluded Constantin Craciun, CTO & Co-Founder DeviceHub.net.

The concept of Internet of Things emphasises the fact that any electronic device can be connected to the Internet in order to gather, generate or exchange data, thus proving an extended applicability.

It is the case for many industries that energy frequently represents the second largest operational cost. But energy is hard to monitor and energy fluctuations can have a negative impact on the production line as such. However, most companies lack cost effective measurement systems and modelling tools and/or performance and management tools to optimise energy use in individual production operations, much less in real-time across multiple operations, facilities, or an entire supply chain. It is a fact that each machine comes with a “personalised” software, but more often than not this does not allow a compact view of the data gathered from the production line as a whole. Thus, although data is available, it is hard to understand or visualise, lacking predictive validity in the case of incidents.

As such, the Internet of Things is not just about the “things”, but moreover about connecting people to the right data, automating processes for cost reduction and enabling inter-dependencies between the operational level and the business level of the organisation. Specifically, IoT becomes a tool for predictive maintenance or an intelligence assurance policy aimed at improving products and services quality through optimising processes.

The IoT movement transcends nowadays the limits of M2M communication, enabling even devices that do not include the respective electronics to connect to the Internet by using an intermediary non-intrusive device. According to Cisco, this technology is poised to generate $4.6 trillion in Value at Stake by 2024, through the efficient management of resources, improving employees’ productivity, new business models and increasing the benefits for end users.

In this context, DeviceHub.net will conduct on November 6th 2015, between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm (GMT+2), at TechHub Bucharest, the workshop Industry 4.0: Real Case Studies and Applicability. Within the event there will be presented concrete IoT solutions and applications from various industries, such as: manufacturing, telecom, agriculture, transportation, renewable energy etc., aimed to answer the above mentioned problems.

Similarly, tailored use cases will be further discussed based on the main areas of expertise of the participants, in order to enable them to update their business model according to the new opportunities made available by the Internet of Things, such as interconnecting machines, providers, maintenance partners or supply chains.  

Thus, industry nowadays can benefit from an unprecedented level of visibility not only into line efficiency, but also into all factory operations, through data gathering using a unique interface and instantly generated smart reports at factory level. Plant managers can now have access to such data as equipment efficiency, line efficiency, data visualisation tools and alerts from any location.

The attendance is free of charge and the workshop addresses all the manufacturers and stakeholders from the electrical equipment and automation industry or related fields, system integrators, public institutions, as well as developers interested to benefit from the advantages provided by adopting IoT solutions for business or own use.

To register for the workshop please fill in the online form available here.

Brace yourselves! How to Web is coming and it’s going to be… LEGENDARY! Meet some of the best & brightest minds in the CEE & beyond, listen to hands-on talks & practical case studies, get to feel the vibe of the CEE startup ecosystem! All these & more on November 26 & 27 at the 6th edition of How to Web, the most important conference on tech innovation & entrepreneurship in South Eastern Europe. Are you the founder of an early-stage tech startup with disruptive potential at global scale? Then apply now for Startup Spotlight, competition & mentoring program with total cash prizes of USD 20.000!

Why attend? How to Web Conference 2015 brings you at the same table with 1000+ startup founders, product managers, developers, online marketers & community leaders from all around the CEE. Beyond high-quality content, including case studies and hands-on talks on different topics, you have great networking opportunities by connecting with the who’s who in the regional tech industry. Learn best practices from remarkable entrepreneurs & top-notch professionals Successful entrepreneurs and experienced professionals from all around the world will take the main stage of How to Web Conference to share best practices & practical case studies, and deliver insightful talks on product launches, product metrics, product marketing, content marketing, conversion rate optimisation through growth hacking, or team building and management, among many others.

Among the speakers that you’ll get to meet and learn from this year, there are:

Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder and President, Mendeley, a company that disrupted information sharing in scientific research, grew to 50 employees and a few million users, and was acquired by Reed Elsevier in April 2013;

Larry Gadea, Founder & CEO, Envoy, startup that allows businesses to check-in people and keep track of their visitors and that recently raised a USD 15 million series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz;

Martin Eriksson, Co-Founder, Mind the Product and Product Tank, entrepreneurial, driven and innovative product management professional with 18+ years experience in building leading online products;

Kalman Kemenczy, Director of Product, Prezi.com, a cloud-based (SaaS) presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting and sharing ideas on a virtual canvas;

Edial Dekker, Co-Founder, Gidsy & Hack de Overheid and ex-Senior Product Manager, Eventbrite;

Bram Kanstein, Founder, Startup Stash, a curated directory of 400 resources and tools for startups, that went viral and got 230.000 pageviews in 48 hours, and ex-European Community Manager, Product Hunt;

Sujan Patel, Renowned growth hacker, marketer, and serial entrepreneur, Co-Founder of ContentMarketer.io and author of  ”100 Days of Growth”, ebook sold in over 10,000 copies.

DeviceHub.net  joins Deutsche Telekom and hub:raum in supporting the new hackathon series of Kitchen Budapest, an internationally recognised innovation lab. This year’s hackathons to be held between October 2nd and 3rd 2015 in Budapest, respectively October 10th and 11th 2015 in Szeged address young creative developers, artists, designers and people with business curiosity and invites them to team up and craft crazy hacks that one can smarten up the home with, make it safer, sweeter, more comfortable or just a better place to live in.

Since the topic is “Home, smart home”, DeviceHub.net will provide the participants with its IoT platform to come up with simple and practical solutions using the latest technologies. Even more, during both of the events, Constantin Craciun, CTO & Co-Founder DeviceHub.net  will attend in order to advice the participants and guide them while using the platform in their developing endeavours.

“For us, giving back to the community is a priority. We started as a makerspace in Bucharest, Romania and using open source hardware and software built new things, so we understand the needs and mentality of makers and innovators and that’s why we love them. We want to continue the tradition and offer what we’ve built with our platform to Internet of Things developers to enable them to build tomorrow. And what better way to do this than in a hackathon. It contains the right amount of challenging ideas, fun and hard work to make awesome stuff that might lead to the next Big thing!”, said Constantin Craciun about the decision to support KIBU hackathon 2015.

At the end of the hackathon, the winning teams will be awarded by DeviceHub.net with premium accounts, which grant them access to extra features on the platform for their future IoT projects. Other prizes are: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, Kibu mentorship and financial support and a laser tag adventure for every member of the teams.

The event’s capacity is 35 people maximum (approximately 6 teams) and the participation is free, based on registration. More details regarding the event can be find on the official website.

Internet & Mobile World 2015, the most extensive expo-conference for digital, mobile and software solutions brings tech savvys and professionals in touch not only with the latest ideas and technologies, but also with the architects of the digital future. The event to be held between October 7th and 8th 2015, is designed as a platform where people can share opinions, find new business partnerships and collaborate for the benefit of their companies.

Within this year’s edition, a special attention is being paid to identifying the key ingredients in order to develop a stronger tech ecosystem at national level. That is why, on October the 7th 2015, starting with 5 pm (GMT+2) on the Main Stage key players from the Romanian tech ecosystem will take part in the panel “Transforming Romania into a Regional Tech Hub”.The panel addresses to 250 General Managers, IT Managers and Project Managers, Marketing and Brand Managers.  

DeviceHub.net, one of the most promising Romanian start-ups in the field of Internet of Things will be represented in this panel by Cristiana Bogateanu, CMO & Co-Founder of the company,  an experienced Project Manager, with an entrepreneurial mindset. Having studies in Marketing and Management, Managerial Communication and Human Resources and Project & Process Management (Professional MBA at WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business), Cristiana always emphasised the importance of internal and external marketing for any organisation. The current entrepreneurial endeavours allowed her to explore even more the power of good marketing and PR in a dynamic market shaped by emerging technological trends.

Internet & Mobile World 2015 will gather 7300 visitors from the business sector and over 130 both local and regional exhibiting companies which will present the most recent business solutions for the digital future: Business Software & Infrastructure, Online Marketing & E-commerce, International Institutions and Start-ups. Similarly, 120 local and international speakers will share their experience in the field on four content stages: Main Stage, Business Software Stage, Digital & E-commerce Stage and Developers Stage.

The complete agenda of the event can be accessed here.

Researchers’ Night, an annual event held in over 300 European cities as a gathering place for the general public and specialists from such fields as science, technology and innovation will take place on September 25th 2015 in 15 cities from Romania, as well.

This year’s edition advances two complementary approaches, Researchers for Humanity and do you speak science, both consisting in a wide range of fun, hands-on and interactive activities as well informal discussions on topical issues aimed to increase awareness of research and innovation among the public at large.

DeviceHub.net, one of the most promising Romanian startups in the field of Internet and Technology will be present at the event in Bucharest, bringing the Internet of Things and its applications closer to people’s daily life.

So, if you’ve heard about the Internet of Things but you don’t quite know how it can be of help to you, be it personally or professionally, or you are already working at a project involving IoT and you are stuck or want to further validate your idea simply drop by our stand and let’s see what we can do about that.

Starting with 5 pm (GMT+2), you can find us in the University Square, at the stands of the Romanian Initiative for Science and Education (RISE) - an assembly of projects and organisations which share the same passion for science, education, smart devices or open source. Some of our fellow exhibitors are: PRISPA, Rogentos, Ceata, ROSEdu, Robofun, EFdeN sau  Symme3D.

The full agenda of the activities within the Researchers for Humanity topic is available here.

See you there!

***About DeviceHub.net

Telekom Innovation Contest is seeking once again smart innovators worldwide. Telekom Romania and the organisers of the contest invite startups and innovators in Romania to apply until October 15 on www.telekom-innovation-contest.com in three categories. The contest is the unique access to the exclusive Innovation Expo in Budapest, where startups meet Deutsche Telekom’s business units. Teams can apply from now on until October 15, startups and innovators from all over the world being invited to submit their ideas. According to Deutsche Telekom‘s hottest topics, the submitted solutions should cover one of the categories: Smart Data Analytics, Future Communication or Industry 4.0/ IoT. Because Deutsche Telekom is looking for mature ideas, the teams have to present at least a working prototype.

Innovation Expo Budapest – „You create. We connect“

For the first time, the applying teams have the chance to join a unique and invite-only event taking place in Budapest on November 12 this year. With the Innovation Expo a platform has been created to foster the exchange between the startup and the corporate world of Deutsche Telekom. Beside a spot on the expo the teams are invited to meet descision makers from Telekom’s business units, venture units and National Companies. „For Deutsche Telekom Startups are an important source of impulses and we are always seeking for entrepreneurs. We are excited to see which bright minds we will meet at the Expo in Budapest“, said Dr. Heinrich Arnold, Senior Vice President Innovation & Laboratories of Deutsche Telekom and Global Head of Telekom Innovation Laboratories.

The 2015 Telekom Innovation Contest

The Telekom Innovation Contest was created in 2013 by Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Berlin, T-Mobile Poland and Magyar Telekom in Hungary. From 2014 on, the competition was also supported by all of Deutsche Telekom’s incubators - hub:raum in Berlin, Krakow and Tel Aviv, along with Kitchen Budapest and UQBATE, a program for employees.

Wild Card for startup shopboostr

This years contest has been kicked off at Startup Night, the biggest event for the Berlin startup ecosystem on September 5, at Telekom’s representative’s office in Berlin. Heinrich Arnold officially opened up the contest and handed over one Wild Card. Teams of Startup Night had the opportunity to apply for the first direct ticket for the Innovation Expo Budapest. The jury of experts selected shopboostr from Berlin, CEO and Co-Founder Dimitri Haußmann received the ticket.Their solution increases conversion rates for web-shops by using big data analytics and behavioral-based algorithms to provide individual product and purchasing incentives.

Image material of the winners and more information about the successful startups will be available soon at the following link: www.telekom-innovation-contest.com

Telekom Romania supports innovation

Until October 6th, startups and entrepreneurs with innovative ideas within IT industry that want to develop their projects can apply for hub:raum Krakow WARP – one of the best acceleration programs for startups in Central and Eastern Europe. The initiative is organized by hub:raum Krakow, the innovation center that is a part of Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile in Poland. During three editions of the accelerator over 36 teams from 15 European countries participated in the program, they agreed that hub:raum Krakow WARP is perfectly adapted to European startup ecosystem and gives opportunity to develop the project in this region. People interested in this year’s edition can apply on the website.

WARP in a fresh approach

This year’s edition of hub:raum Krakow WARP returns in a new approach. During intense, seven-day workshops entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe will broaden their knowledge and gain experience in every aspect that is important in business making – thanks to the presence of international experts and Deutsche Telekom and NatCos mentors. From the group of teams invited to Krakow, mentors, representatives of innovation center and national telekoms from DT Group will choose projects with potential and possibility to launch a product on the market. Selected teams for five weeks  will develop their product or service thanks to financing, mentoring and co-working. The main goal of their work is to prepare their products or services to be ready for commercialization on markets through national telekoms. The best team will have the opportunity to present its project during the international conference for startups, thanks to that startup can find investors and take their product or service to the next level.

Thanks to hub:raum Krakow WARP we can observe startups that develop their projects and use their knowledge gathered during our program. We supported teams in the development of their ideas during three editions of the accelerator and the best have been invited to the innovation centre. Successes of our alumni are the proof that it is worth to announce such initiatives. I am glad that also in this year we can help startups in reaching millions of customers and entering foreign markets. – explains Jakub Probola, head of hub:raum Krakow.

Startups wanted

The innovation centre looks for teams that come up with innovative ideas in the fields of IT, internet and mobile with a clearly-defined, innovative idea or with an already existing project. The recruitment process lasts until October 6th. There are no strings attached, the accelerator covers the costs of flight and accommodation for selected startups. Teams who want to apply should fill the form on the website: www.f6s.com/hubraumkrakow/apply

Three editions of hub:raum Krakow WARP

hub:raum Krakow WARP is one of the biggest acceleration programs in Central and Eastern Europe. During three editions of turbo workshops, 36 startups from 15 countries took part in the initiative. The video summary of the first edition is here.

In 2013 we took part in the first edition of the accelerator, since that time our project has developed thanks to the support of hub:raum Krakow. WARP workshops were very useful for us and gave us a lot of valuable knowledge and insights. Until that time we won several European contests for startups and we conducted a successful campaign on Indiegogo, which helped us to collect funds on the development of our product. – says Alexander Diatlov, cofounder of Ecoisme, startup that is one of the investments in hub:raum Krakow portfolio. Ecoisme is the world’s most intelligent home energy monitoring system, providing consumers and homeowners with a simplified solution for cutting energy consumption and household costs.

More information about the program can be found on the website: www.hubraum.com/warp. 

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About hub:raum Krakow

hub:raum Krakow is the innovation center for CEE created by Deutsche Telekom Group in April 2013. It focuses on supporting innovative businesses from Central and Eastern Europe by connecting team, vision, and expertise with the corporate power of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies. It is achieved by offering a comprehensive package of seed-funding, co-working space, mentoring and access to Deutsche Telekom assets.

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Hey there! We are entrepreneurs, it’s true. But we’ve always been curious and eager to experiment each and every new technology. So, we recall the times when, as students, we were not able to explore the latest trends. Or how, based on our constant need for knowledge sharing and collaboration, we decided to create our own makerspace. That is why, we would like to give back and make DeviceHub.net open-source, for ambitious developers all around. We are always interested in what you built using our platform so if you have an awesome project, send it to us with the tutorial & the code sample and we will showcase it on the DeviceHub.net platform. The makers who will submit the best tutorial, will receive “The contributor of the month” title. And, since we ourselves are developers and DIY makers, we have already posted our contributions in the DeviceHub.net special section for tutorials, practical examples & API documentation: https://devicehub.net/dev.

DeviceHub.net, a Romanian startup which provides a cloud service as Paas for developing IoT solutions will conduct on September 11th 2015, between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm at the Parliament Palace (room I.C. Bratianu) the workshop Internet of Things: Real Use Cases and Industrial Applications. The attendance is free of charge and the workshop addresses all the stakeholders from the electrical equipment and automation industry or related fields, system integrators, public institutions, as well as developers interested to benefit from the advantages provided by adopting IoT solutions for business or own use. To register for the Internet of Things: Real Use Cases and Industrial Applications workshop please fill in the online form available here. During the workshop there will be showcased examples of concrete IoT applications developed by the DeviceHub.net team with applicability in different industrial sectors (manufacturing, telecom, agriculture, automotive, renewable energy etc.) and tailored use cases will be further discussed based on the main areas of expertise of the participants, in order to enable them to update their business model according to the new opportunities made available by the Internet of Things. The workshop will be held within the IEAS exhibition (International Electric & Automation Show), an event which aims to gather the most important manufacturers, integrators and providers from such fields as: Smart Energy, Smart Buildings, Smart Technologies, Smart Transportation, Smart Security Systems. The entrance in the Parliament Palace is made from 13 September Bldv. B3 /E1 gate. For more details about IEAS, please visit the official website of the event www.ieas.ro.

*** About DeviceHub.net

DeviceHub.net is a cloud service for Internet of Things solutions, which enables users to easily design and develop IoT related services and projects. Specifically, DeviceHub.net is an IoT platform which gathers data, summarizes them and provides the possibility to remotely control the connected devices. DeviceHub.net can be integrated with any kind of hardware and is especially designed for smart monitoring, smart fleet management, medicine, home automation, automotive, wearable devices, IoT manufacturers etc.

Here are the cool stuff we’ve done:

We’ve been selected among the 12 best IoT startups in Europe within the Challenge UP! start-up program. Further, we have ahead of us four full months, closely collaborating with companies such as Cisco, Intel and Deutsche Telekom. Benefiting from their mentoring and expertise we will be working on integrating our platform with their products and services.

We’ve added more tutorials to Hackster.io and we’ve been nominated among the best IoT projects of the week. Check our tutorials out here.

We’ve added an Arduino library. Now you can make Arduino projects even easier than before. Check it out here.

We’ve broadened the applicability area by adding three new use cases for the enterprise level. So, check out the use cases to see what needs can be addressed through our platform in terms of Agriculture, Wearables and Security.

On 05 Aug, 2015 Ionut Cotoi is going to present his experience about how to access and get funded by incubators at Startup Grind Bucharest. Ionut is the CEO & Co-founder of DeviceHub.net - a Romanian Cloud start-up for IoT solutions that managed to attract an important grant from Deutsche Telekom at Hub:raum, Krakow.

DeviceHub.net just won the most innovative corporate start-up program of 2015, by Intel, Cisco & hub:raum powered by Deutsche Telekom Challenge Up!

Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom announced the twelve startups selected to join the next phase of the Challenge Up! Program, a joint startup initiative organised by the three companies. The twelve teams will participate in a 4-month incubation program designed for young innovative companies building Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.

The winning teams were selected after five days of intensive mentoring sessions, workshops and pitching during the Challenge Up! Acceleration Week at hub:raum Krakow, from July 5 – July 10. Out of more than 300 applicants, twenty startups from 13 countries were invited to meet over 100 international mentors, experts and entrepreneurs. The sessions were designed to help early-stage companies scale their business ideas for faster market entry.

Participants spent close to 40 hours in workshops refining their pitching skills, product development, business modeling, user experience (UX) design and sales strategy. 

DeviceHub.net from Romania is one of the 12 start-ups that have qualified to the Challenge Up! incubation program. DeviceHub.net offers a Platform as a Service (PaaS) through which users can connect easily and remotely manage multiple devices and create services on top of them. The platform significantly decreases effort and time to enter the market for IoT services.

The other 11 startups invited to join the Challenge Up! Incubation program are:

Admetsys (Denmark) www.admetsys.com Admetsys developed Smart PancreasTM, a solution that measures and helps maintain blood sugar levels of diabetic patients. The Admetsys Smart PancreasTM attached to a patient’s intravenous line automatically measures blood glucose concentration in real time with no blood loss.

ComfyLight (Switzerland) www.comfylight.com It is a smart LED light bulb, enhanced with a presence sensor and connectivity which helps to protect homes. The device learns movement schemes and switches the light on and off in a natural rhythm.

Hi-Park (Israel) www.hi-park.co Hi-Park’s technology uses crowd-sourced data and images to provide information on parking vacancy. As a result, it significantly reduces the time spent on searching for parking.

Ifinity (Poland) www.getifinity.com Ifinity provides beacons based tailor-made technology to cities, public spaces and commercial clients around the world. The solution lets people digitally interact with reality through their mobiles.

n-Join (Israel) www.n-join.com n-Join leverages the rapid advancements in the Internet of Things to make production facilities more flexible, maximize their output and reduce their environmental signature.

OORT (Poland) www.oort.in OORT is a unique patent-pending technology that allowed to build an open ecosystem consisting of smart devices, sensors, mobile software & cloud platform. Base upon it, the company developed first Bluetooth Smart specialized Smart Home system that can be controlled via any device with an internet access regardless of its producer and used OS.

ProGlove (Germany) www.proglove.de ProGlove is a smart glove that enables its users to scan handsfree and provides them with an instant feedback. The device unlocks a new level of business intelligence through additional data point.

Senic (Germany) www.senic.com A universal dial for the Internet of Things, able to control smart lights, locks, thermostats or speakers with simple gestures rather than browsing through apps on a smartphone.

SEMSEYE (Lithuania) www.semseye.com A unique solution for monitoring people flows. It is built on the most advanced algorithms for intelligent video processing, and can be used, among others, in retail areas.

Taggalo (Italy) www.taggalo.co.uk iTunes for real world analytics. Open platform integrating video analytics, wifi tracking and Beacon, all in a single, plug & play sensor. It allows to collect contextual data (footfall, viewers, dwell time, length of stay, frequency of returns, demographics) accessible directly (custom dashboards) or via APIs in real time.

Waylay (Belgium) www.waylay.io Waylay is a real-time automation platform that integrates the Internet-of-Things (IoT) with enterprise IT systems and online services.

The incubation program will take place in Krakow, Berlin and London from July to November 2015. Startups that successfully complete the program will be eligible for potential co-investment from Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom, as well as other leading corporate venture funds. More details will be announced in December during the Challenge Up! Summit, part of the unBoundDigital tech conference to be held in London, between November 30th and December 1st 2015.

Challenge Up! is designed to help IoT startups enter the market faster by combining access to corporate resources and joint projects with mentoring and high-value networking. The program unites resources and experience from the startup initiatives of the individual companies, including Cisco, Intel® Business Challenge Europe and hub:raum powered by Deutsche Telekom. 

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“We are impressed by the high quality of teams and ideas of the startups and we are looking forward to work with them intensely and welcome them in September in hub:raum Berlin – when the teams will come together next time”, says Elias Drakopoulos, Senior Vice President responsible for Europe B2B at Deutsche Telekom.

“This program provides Cisco the chance to support early-stage startups and work with energetic entrepreneurs. We are excited to be part of this community and to support entrepreneurs in open innovation,” adds Mike Flannagan, Vice President and General Manager of Data & Analytics at Cisco.

“Combining the industry expertise and network of Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom provides European IoT startups with unique opportunities to test and verify their ideas. The Challenge Up! Competition has attracted some highly interesting innovations, addressing real market needs, with some of them already getting business traction. The programme proves that the European startup ecosystem is a source of pioneering developments in the IoT segment.” said Marcin Hejka, Vice President of Intel and Intel Capital EMAR Managing Director.

About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2014). The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.7 billion in the 2014 financial year – more than 60 percent of it outside Germany.

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Hey there!

We wanted you to know that based on your feedback, we’ve improved DeviceHub.net IoT platform.

Here are the cool stuff you can benefit from:

We’ve developed a new feature called “Clone Device”. You can now clone the devices based on a “Master” device from the Project view. This is an excellent way to easily duplicate devices, together with the sensors and actuators within. The cloned device can also be updated if the master device properties changes.

We’ve removed the rate limit across the platform and allowed all accounts tiers to send data ten times per second. That means more data can be sent even faster than before.

We’ve started creating video tutorials for DeviceHub.net - IFTTT integration. You can find a home automation example with video and code sample here.

We’ve added PHP and C libraries and improved the Python and C++ ones. This should enable users to get familiar with the mentioned languages and to easily access DeviceHub.net platform.

We’ve also started posting interesting projects on Hackster.io and you can start check them out here.

Contributor of the month  June, 2015

“Contributor of the month” award goes to … Mihai Macarie!

We would like to deeply thank Mihai for helping us adding the PHP library on DeviceHub.net IoT platform. In order to show our appreciation, Mihai will receive for free our standard package for the next 6 months.

Congrats Mihai and keep on hacking!

We are always interested in what you built using our platform so if you have an awesome project, send it to us with the tutorial & the code sample and we will post it on the DeviceHub.net platform. The makers who will submit the best tutorial, will receive as a reward the standard package for 6 months :)

As we want to help the DIY makers community to grow, you might have noticed that DeviceHub.net has a special section for tutorials, practical examples & API documentation: http://devicehub.net/dev.

Thank you once again for using our platform!