Type Public Founder Usman Haque Parent organization LogMeIn, Inc. | Traded as NASDAQ: LOGM Website xively.com Founded 2007 | |
Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts, USA Profiles | ||
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Xively (formerly known as Cosm and Pachube) is a division of LogMeIn Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM), a global, public company that provides remote access and collaboration products including Rescue, Boldchat, join.me, and Cubby. Xively by LogMeIn offers an Internet of Things (IoT) platform as a service, business services, and partners that enable businesses to quickly connect products and operations to the Internet. It is pronounced "zively" (rhymes with lively).
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History
In 2007, London architect Usman Haque founded Pachube (pronounced Patch bay) as a data infrastructure and community for the Internet of Things. Following the nuclear accidents in Japan in 2011, Xively was used by volunteers to interlink Geiger counters across the country to monitor the fallout. In July 2011, Pachube announced that they had been acquired by LogMeIn and renamed to Cosm. Cosm came out of beta development and was rebranded as Xively to become a Public Cloud for the IoT in May 2013.
Xively Cloud Services
A Platform as a Service built for the IoT. According to their website, this includes directory services, data services, a trust engine for security, and web-based management application. Xively’s messaging is built on a publish-subscribe protocol called MQTT. The API supports REST, WebSockets, and MQTT.
Xively Business Services
The company’s consulting services for building IoT-based products.
Xively Partner Network
Xively has partnered with chipset companies such as ARM, Atmel and TI as well as solution providers and IoT industry alliances like OASIS.