R&D in IT: An Investigation of IoT Companies for SIT740

This report investigates research and development (R&D) in the field of Information Technology (IT), specifically focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT) and its application across various companies. The report analyzes three IoT-based organizations: OPower, a SaaS-based energy service utility; Little Bits, an educational system providing circuitry concepts; and Fitbits, a health and fitness tracking company. The analysis explores the linkage between IoT and these organizations, highlighting how IoT devices and software enable their core functionalities, including power-saving, educational tools, and fitness tracking. The report discusses the products, services, and the problems these companies aim to solve, emphasizing the critical role of IoT in their operations. The report also references the importance of IoT frameworks and programmable software in delivering essential services and utilities.

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Organization Overview:-
OPower:-
It is the Energy service utility company and founded by 2007. The head office of this
organization in Virginia. It is the SaaS-based client arrangement and energy effectiveness
business delivering the tools customers essential to make improved energy decisions. This
organization mainly integrates behavioral science methods such as normative judgment, material
evidence, loss language, evasions, and user promise into their product strategies.
Little bits:-
This organization is a hands-on education system of automated building blocks that
permits every learner to generate with technology. This organization also supports teachers with
standard lessons that are engaging and fun for students. This organization is delivering one tool
which can help to grow the student's circuitry ideas.
Fitbits:-
This organization is also very much helpful in providing health fitness utilities. This
organization supports the user to live a fit, stable life by tracing there daily exercise, activity,
weight, and sleep. Several products have a significant impact on their customers. Fitbit charge 3,
Ace 2, and Fitbit Ionic are very much famous for the fitness lover person.
Linkage between IoT and These organizations:-
IoT means the Internet of things, and it is connecting to digital machines, computer
devices, and mechanical machinery (Krčo, Pokrić and Carrez 2014). The above discussion three
organizations are also IoT based organization. At first, this power-saving utility provider OPower

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is delivering the software which is offering power-saving facilities. With the help of IoT devices,
this software can provide many essential facilities like security, adjustability, and operating
structure. The following organization, little bits, are also delivered IoT facilities for their students
and clients (Gronau et al. 2017). These organizations provide circuitry concepts, and these
concepts also offer problem-solving abilities. These little bits software are very much secure, and
without the IoT, these are impossible. The final selected organization is fitness software
providing organization, and these organizations (Fitbits) provide several tracking and tracing
machinery. This machinery is very much controllable by the programmable software (Huh, Cho
and Kim 2017). It is essential that without the IoT framework, this organization cannot deliver
the tracing and tracking fitness utilities.

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