Losant

Losant is an enterprise IoT platform aimed at industrial operations, and its most consequential recent development is corporate rather than technical: SUSE has acquired it, with the stated intent of delivering an open process automation platform for industrial IoT providing real-time insights and actionable intelligence. The companies describe the goal as unlocking the tiny edge, meaning the constrained hardware at the far end of an industrial estate. For anyone evaluating it now, that direction matters as much as the current feature set.

The platform is positioned around transforming operations rather than collecting telemetry, and the named solutions are specific enough to judge fit against. Asset tracking covers knowing where equipment is. Condition-based maintenance replaces fixed-interval servicing with intervention driven by actual machine condition, which is where most industrial IoT return on investment is genuinely found. Industrial equipment monitoring covers machine health, smart environment covers facilities, and environmental, social and governance reporting addresses the compliance obligations increasingly attached to industrial operations.

Three audiences are addressed distinctly: industrial IoT operators, OEMs building connected products to sell, and telecom providers. The OEM case is notable, since a manufacturer embedding a platform into its own product has requirements around white labelling and multi-tenancy that an internal deployment does not.

Adoption support is unusually thorough. A developer sandbox allows hands-on evaluation without a sales conversation, proof of concept engagements are offered as a defined step, and application templates provide starting points rather than a blank platform. Losant University, documentation, tutorials, forums, webinars and platform demos back this up, alongside a partner ecosystem of service and technology partners. Pricing is not published.