Four Distinctive Korean Startups at the HTML5 Conference – ‘Daliworks’
■ ‘Daliworks (Daliworks)’, an IoT backend-as-a-service startup
One booth displayed an Apple MacBook — the staple of the developer world — alongside an array of small devices fitted with various sensors and actuators. It was the exhibition space of Daliworks, an IoT startup already featured several times in the Korean press.
Daliworks’ core business is a platform service called ‘Thing+’ (Thingplus), and the boards and bundles of wires on the demo table were there to prove the service’s practical potential.
‘Build your IoT service right now’
At the Daliworks booth, staff explained the concept behind Thingplus and how to use it. Compared with the technologies and products of the other exhibitors, Daliworks’ Thingplus was admittedly less related to the conference theme of HTML5 standards. Even so, developers attending the event crowded the booth during every break between sessions to hear the explanation. Perhaps because while everyone else was saying ‘try our product,’ this booth was saying ‘build your own.’
A Thingplus-based IoT service works like this: a developer collects data with a Raspberry Pi, Intel ‘Edison’, Arduino, or similar board assembled with sensors or actuators, and accumulates it on ‘Thingplus Cloud,’ a public-cloud-based platform. Connected devices run management software called ‘Thingplus Embedded.’ Devices and data statistics can be checked on a management screen called ‘Thingplus Portal.’ Control commands can be issued to devices by setting conditions on data attributes or categories.
For more detailed service development, the ‘Thingplus API’ can be used instead of the portal. Either way, developers can focus on composing or programming the service — gathering data through sensors, processing it, and issuing operation commands through rules. There is no need to worry about the technology or infrastructure management required for data collection, storage, and analysis, or about the technology needed to connect hardware to the service. On the cost side, the company emphasized that it is easy to get started: simply sign up and try it for free.
“Startup Daliworks at the W3C HTML5 Conference at COEX, Seoul, on December 9, 2015
