Founded in 1992, SBS Science & Technology Co., Ltd. is a hi-tech enterprise in China specializing in R&D, manufacture and sales & service of international standards-based embedded hardware as well as related software. As one of the first members of PC/104 Consortium, a member of PICMG Organization, SBS is also a leading one in embedded field passed ISO9001 certification. Aimed at keeping abreast with advanced world stage and creating world famous brand, SBS has highlighted the integration of international cooperation and independent innovation. During the past over 15 years, SBS introduced various state-of-the-art products. By now, SBS embedded computers have been successfully applied in various fields including vehicle mount computer, train control system, intelligent transportation system, financial self-service system, video surveillance, communications, medical equipment and etc. SBS has kept being the leading provider of embedded computing solutions in Chinese market, and its products have been exported to Southeast Asia and Europe. The extreme high-level quality makes SBS products bear off customer's recognition and deep Trust both home and abroad, especially from European customers. Keeping a close relationship with top companies, SBS' mission is to provide reliable, technology-lead and best-valued total embedded computing solution that can fasten time-to-market for all customers.

Lantronix, Inc. is a global leader of secure communication technologies that simplify remote access, management and control of any electronic device. Their solutions empower businesses to make better decisions based on real-time information, and gain a competitive advantage by generating new revenue streams, improving productivity and increasing efficiency and profitability.

Advanticsys creates monitoring and control products and solutions that improve processes and services in areas such as energy, agriculture and environment in a global marketplace. Year founded: 2009 Revenue: $1 - 10 million (2014 est.)

LILEE Systems, an Inc. 500 award-winner, is capitalizing on the growing market for providing secure and reliable connectivity for IoT and Fog Computing. LILEE’s Fog Computing platforms enable a higher level of customizable services which can be deployed to enhance safety, grow ridership, improve customer satisfaction, increase operational efficiency, and seamlessly interconnect IoT applications in the Smart World.

Established in 2002 by Silicon Valley professionals and headquartered in Chengdu, China, Vantron Technology is a leading provider of low-power embedded system and software solutions to OEM/ODM customers. Taking advantages of the fast growth of China and many supports from its major shareholder, Eurotech Group - an Italy public trading company specialized in embedded systems, Vantron has grown significantly every year since 2002. Today, Vantron has customers including Fortune 500 companies in a number of counties and regions around the world such as United States, Europe, Singapore, Indian, and China. In additional to ready-to-run embedded systems, Vantron can also provide assistant in application software development, tailor its embedded systems based on customers' requirements, and offer turn-key manufacturing services.

A huge part of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications can significantly benefit from context awareness, in particular location awareness. This information might pertain to the location of the user, to the location of devices/appliances or both of them and hence enable a lot of powerful applications, for example, in hospitals to track equipment, doctors, and patients or in industrial environments to track and trace persons and assets. However, IoT research rather focuses on architectures, which includes components for context awareness, but pays less attention to how and with which accuracy context is achieved. Many algorithms and approaches have been proposed for indoor RF-based localization; however, low cost and accurate indoor localization is still very challenging. Many research and commercial solutions claim very high accuracies, which can, however, only be achieved in a very specific setting under ideal conditions. Adbanticsys Research Department is working on the development of cost-effective indoor localization solutions in real-life environments such as warehouses or underground mining sites.

Philips, Siemens, Fraunhofer