Help:TopicTags

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Topic Tags are used to classify topics in various ways. A topic can have more then 1 tag. Tags are grouped by certain themes. Tags have a 3 character nickname. One of

• G General Biz Development, Biz Model , Use Cases , Market Research articles,
• H Horizontal/ IoT Hardware capability/ Specialty ,
• V verticals/ Sector/Industry . Used in IoT Startup Directory
• S Services
• O offering or asset type managed (Energy, Water, Renewable...)

Verticals

We have classified by Industry or vertical or sector to which they provide services . In many cases multiple verticals are served.

• V1 Consumer/Home
• V2 Commercial
• V3 Retail
• V4 Industrial/Mfg./Plant
• V5 City Nation
  • V5a Campus
  • V5b City
• V6 AgriTech/Farm/Village
• V7 Health/Wellness
• V8 Utility
• V9 Transport/Logistics
• V10 IoT Infra & Services
• V11 Misc. verticals Defense, BFSI, Education, Mining

Horizontal

These are more HW and IoT network and Product offerings oriented

• H1 IoT Horizontal
• H2 Instrumentation/Vibration/Sensor
• H3 Semi conductor ,FPGA, SoC
• H4 HW tooling , Kit,3D printer/Enclosures
• H5 HW Antenna, Gateways, Radio, IoT Infrastructure
• H6 Drone, mobile pods, Autonomous
• H7 Robots
• H8 Advertising technology, AR/VR, Beacons, Digital Signage, RFID, NFC
• H9 Smart Phone Add On Devices
• H10 IoT Platform
• H11 IoT Security IoT Network, Devices
• H12 IoT Interoperability
• H13 AI/Analytics

Tips:

1. H8 is broad covering AR/VR, Blue tooth beacons, RFID NFC and digital advertising HW
2. H5 for LoRa, SigFox, WiFi, Zigbee , 4G,5G and networking gear

Services

These are not Product but Services

• S2 Product Engineering
• S3 Imbedded Program Design, SOC,FPGA
• S4 Interfacing PLM,SCADA,CPG
• S5 Firmware, Embedded SW
• S6 PCB Design
• S7 SW Tools/IDE
• S8 Connectivity /Radio
• S9 Testing/Compliance
• S10 Training
• S11 3D printer/Enclosure
• S12 Cyber Security for IoT
• S13 SI Services for IoT
• S14 IoT Phone Apps Development
• S15 IoT Interoperability

Offering

Asset type being managed

• O1 Facility Ops
• O2 Equipment/Assets
• O3 Process Control
• O4 Energy/Lights/HVAC/Renewables/T&D/Grid
• O5 Water
• O6 Waste
• O7 Air/Pollution
• O8 Safety/Surveillance/Disaster Response
• O9 Parking/Traffic
• O10 Adtech
• O11 Aggregator/Portal
• O12 People, Animals

General

• G0 Funding M&A
• G2 BizDev
• G3 BizModel
• G5 Development
• G6 IoT Stack
• G7 Edge Distributed Fog
• G8 Block Chain DLT
• G9 Tips Checklist Manifesto
• G10 Ecosystem
• G11 Regulation Standards
• G12 Governance
• G14 Usecases, Pilot,Projects
• G15 Trends Technology
• G16 Market Resarch
• G21 Open Source

Tips:

1. Use G16 for all Commercial reports and landscape reports by associations, consultancies
2. Use G7 for all Edge Computing and G8 for Distributed Ledger Technology (Block Chain)
3. Use G9 for advice, tips technical or general management , funding etc. Add G2 for sales and business development and G3 for business models. Subscription as a service, Data as a Service
4. Use G2 for corporate or Industry governance and G11 for regulations
5. Use G6 for overall architecture or broader around engineering and IoT
6. Use G10 for the value chain supporting IoT Startups. Academia, Incubators, VC, Government, Banks
7. Use G5 for generic Development of institutions (VC community) or