CRN’s 2025 IoT Innovators: Seizing On Continuous Growth
These solution providers are participating in the enterprise IoT market—which is set to grow 14 percent annually on average through 2030—with offerings that range from connected field operations and AI-powered video surveillance to health-care monitoring and digital twins.
With the enterprise IoT market set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent through 2030, solution providers face plenty of opportunities to sell products and services for the purpose of building IoT applications.
According to research firm IoT Analytics, double-digit growth in the enterprise IoT market is expected to be driven in part by Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service, which are both poised to grow annually by 20 percent on average through this period.
Hardware will also give solution provider avenues of growth during this time, with microcontroller and gateway products predicted to grow annually by 4.5 percent while more specialized segments are expected to grow much faster, per IoT Analytics.
For the 2025 IoT Innovators feature, CRN is honoring 23 solution providers that are leading the channel in providing innovative IoT solutions that range from connected field operations and AI-powered video surveillance to health-care monitoring and digital twins.
AHEAD
Top Executive: Dan Adamany, Founder, CEO
AHEAD is helping enterprises turn IoT strategies into real-world deployments through its expertise in networking and edge computing. For manufacturing customers, the Chicago-based company’s offerings include factory design and planning as well as cloud IoT architecture integration for connected field operations.
Alvarez Technology Group
Top Executive: Luis Alvarez, President, CEO
Alvarez Technology Group is helping businesses with the development and integration of IoT solutions that range from video surveillance to thermal imaging. The Salinas, Calif.-based solution provider’s offerings include an AI-powered video surveillance solution that is 80 percent less expensive than in-house security staff.
Braver Technology
Top Executive: Kenny Rounds, Founder, CEO
Braver Technology is giving businesses the ability to proactively manage their operations with IoT solutions that improve uptime and offer real-time insight, among other things. The Taunton, Mass.-based solution provider, for instance, has helped an industrial customer with multiple sites cut downtime by 35 percent by instituting a predictive service model.
Cardinal Peak, An FPT Software Business
Top Executive: Sean O’Neil, Co-CEO
Cardinal Peak is using its strength in engineering services to help organizations overcome challenges with IoT solutions. For the Lafayette, Colo.-based solution provider, this includes a fully integrated wearable system that monitors patients with nephrology conditions, allowing them to connect with health-care services around the clock.
CBT
Top Executive: Kelly Ireland, Founder, CEO, CTO
CBT provides IoT solutions for collecting, analyzing and visualizing industrial data to help businesses reduce costs and improve reliability, among other things. The offerings from the Orange, Calif.-based company range from connected workforce solutions for providing workers with real-time insight about their work environments to video intelligence solutions for monitoring the safety of workers.
CDW
Top Executive: Christine Leahy, Chair, CEO
CDW provides IoT solutions that aim to make businesses more efficient and profitable while opening new growth opportunities. Within the manufacturing space, for instance, the Vernon Hills, Ill.-based solution provider offers solutions for maximizing uptime, improving inventory intelligence and enhancing efficiency.
DirectDefense
Top Executive: Jim Broome, President, CTO
DirectDefense provides a comprehensive suite of security services to protect industrial IoT systems. The Denver-based company’s capabilities include IoT device security assessments, application testing, network architecture reviews and compliance reviews.
EPAM Systems
Top Executive: Balazs Fejes, President, CEO
EPAM Systems develops IoT solutions using its expertise in end-to-end development and engineering services to help businesses improve productivity and efficiency. The Newtown, Pa.-based solution provider’s specialties in IoT development include device management, big data utilization, cloud orchestration and rapid prototyping.
GDT
Top Executive: Shawn O’Grady, Chair, CEO
GDT is enabling businesses to overcome obstacles, accelerate growth and become more competitive with advanced analytics platforms and integration capabilities for IoT. The Dallas-based solution provider backs these offerings with a comprehensive suite of managed services, software and support services along with professional IT services.
GrayMatter
Top Executive: Paul Galeski, CEO
GrayMatter is focused on delivering industrial IoT solutions to help manufacturers improve and protect their operations. With partners ranging from High Byte to Tenable, the Warrendale, Pa.-based solution provider’s offerings include solutions for real-time monitoring and automation as well as managed detection and response.
Insight Enterprises
Top Executive: Joyce Mullen, President, CEO
Insight Enterprises provides edge computing solutions to help a variety of businesses gain real-time insight and improve their operations. The Chandler, Ariz.-based solution provider’s capabilities range from real-time monitoring solutions for agriculture to predictive maintenance and automation for manufacturing.
iT1
Top Executives: Bryan Clifton, Guy Steinbrink, Co-Founders, Principals
iT1 provides IoT solutions to organizations for use cases ranging from workplace safety and security to connected health care. For instance, the Tempe, Ariz.-based solution provider partners with Everbridge to help employers notify, locate and communicate with their workers during security incidents or natural disasters.
Kalypso, A Rockwell Automation Business
Top Executive: Austin Locke, Principal, Global Practice Leader, Data Science, AI
Kalypso, a Rockwell Automation business, provides consulting, design and managed services for IoT solutions to help manufacturers improve their operations. Having developed more than 4,000 projects for over 1,000 brands, the Milwaukee-based solution provider said its solutions and services have been proven to increase labor productivity, reduce energy consumption and improve product quality, among other things.
Klika Tech
Top Executives: Val Kamenski, Gennadiy Borisov, Co-CEOs
Klika Tech is taking advantage of its expertise in cloud and embedded systems to develop IoT solutions for a wide range of verticals, including health care, agriculture, retail and manufacturing. This year the Miami-based company announced that Amazon Web Services became its exclusive cloud computing partner and launched three strategic consulting assessments, including for scalable IoT solutions, on AWS Marketplace.
Kudelski Group
Top Executive: André Kudelski, Chairman, CEO
Kudelski Group provides a wide range of services for developing and maintaining secure IoT solutions through its Kudelski IoT division. In March, the Switzerland-based company announced that it entered a strategic partnership with AI chip startup Axelera AI to “deliver comprehensive security solutions for the next generation of AI-powered devices.”
LYME Technology Solutions
Top Executive: Josh Longacre, President, CEO
LYME Technology Solutions combines its expertise in IT systems and custom development services to provide IoT solutions for government, business and academia customers. The Lebanon, N.H.-based solution provider in May was named a Toughbook Prime Partner by Panasonic in recognition of its “experience, technical proficiency and commitment to delivering advanced surveillance and security systems.”
NTT Data
Top Executive: Abhijit Dubey, CEO
NTT Data is deploying a range of IoT solutions to help businesses improve their operations and identify new revenue-generating opportunities. In August, the Tokyo, Japan-based solution provider announced that it provided network infrastructure, IoT platforms and consulting services for a smart building solution to enhance comfort and productivity, cut energy costs and reduce manual intervention for building operations.
Optiv
Top Executive: Kevin Lynch, CEO
Optiv provides a comprehensive suite of services to help businesses protect their IoT devices and operational technology environments. The Denver-based company’s offerings include solutions for real-time detection and response, workshops for teaching best practices for IoT security as well as services for security risk assessments, threat modeling, deployment and integration.
Patti Engineering
Top Executive: Sam Hoff, Founder, CEO
Patti Engineering is deploying solutions for industrial IoT, control systems integration, asset tracking and robotics to help manufacturers improve operations. The Auburn Hills, Mich.-based solution provider’s industrial IoT capabilities include edge and cloud computing, advanced data analytics and machine learning, as well as digital twins.
Perficient
Top Executive: Yusuf Tayob, CEO
Perficient is delivering transformative business outcomes for customers with its end-to-end IoT solutions. In the automotive industry, the St. Louis-based solution provider offers consulting services for the design and integration of advanced driver assist, autonomous, multi-cloud and software-defined vehicle capabilities.
Volta
Top Executive: Marshall Butler, President, CEO
Volta is helping businesses reduce management costs and service disruptions for IoT devices with its in-house IoT monitoring system. The Frankfort, Ky.-based solution provider’s Multimeter system is built on the foundation of Elastic’s search and analytics platform, allowing the system to automatically remediate IoT devices based on alerts that are sent when thresholds are met for a variety of device characteristics.
Wachter
Top Executive: Brian Sloan, CEO
Wachter is helping companies of all kinds achieve their business goals with a variety of IoT solutions, ranging from RFID and NFC asset tracking to predictive maintenance. In manufacturing, the Lenexa, Kan.-based solution provider can equip companies with custom IoT solutions designed to improve production uptime, among other things.
World Wide Technology.
Top Executive: Jim Kavanaugh, Co-Founder, CEO
World Wide Technology is deploying integrated IoT solutions to help a variety of businesses improve their competitiveness and efficiency. For instance, the St. Louis-based solution provider has solutions for helping manufacturers track assets in real time, improve the detection of defects and use predictive maintenance to keep machinery running.