Bosch IoT

Bosch IoT refers to the Internet of Things activities of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world’s largest engineering and technology companies, spanning automotive components, industrial technology, consumer goods and energy/building technology. Bosch is both a major supplier of the physical building blocks of IoT — MEMS sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes, environmental sensors) that ship in billions of smartphones, vehicles and appliances worldwide — and a software provider through the Bosch IoT Suite, which offers device management, data analytics and digital-twin capabilities for enterprise customers. Bosch’s connected mobility unit supplies telematics and connectivity hardware to automakers, while its smart-home division (Bosch Smart Home) sells consumer security, heating and lighting devices. This dual position — as both a component supplier to other IoT vendors and a platform/solutions provider in its own right — makes Bosch somewhat unusual among the companies on this list. Its scale in automotive and industrial sensing gives it outsized influence over IoT hardware standards and costs industry-wide, even where end-users never see the Bosch name directly on a finished product. For an IoT news audience, Bosch is a useful company to track both for platform/software news and for sensor and semiconductor supply-chain stories that ripple through the wider IoT hardware market.