# IBM Watson IoT Platform Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [IoT Device Management Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-device-management-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About IBM Watson IoT Platform IBM Watson IoT Platform can help you get a quick start on your next Internet of Things project. It is a fully managed, cloud-hosted service designed to make it simple to derive value from your Internet of Things devices. It provides capabilities such as device registration, connectivity, control, rapid visualization and storage of Internet of Things data. Connect and Manage devices: Connect to the Watson IoT Platform on IBM Cloud with ease, then set up and manage your IoT devices and data to start creating your own applications, visualization dashboards and mobile IoT apps. Build quickly and securely: Find the tools and services you need to create your IoT applications including cognitive APIs, Weather Company data, blockchain and more. Extend with Watson Cognitive APIs: Create a better experience with a natural voice interface or image recognition. ## IBM Watson IoT Platform Reviews ### 1. Good quality a better tecnology of iot **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abel N. | Programador y desarrollador web, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** In my opinion the ibm watson platform is one of the best for team development of iot, mainly because in addition to the facilities of the platform to be used also allows to develop artificial interligence technologies and other technologies that are available IBM **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** the price of the platform is somewhat expensive, should include some free plans to start with the development of the platform and then be able to hire a payment plan according to the needs **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson IoT Platform:** Yes, I personally believe that technologies have a great experience and many years of work. IBM Watson seems to me a good solution for the development of technologies and businesses. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has provided us with solutions for the development of web systems through iot in a shorter time of development and also together with its artificial intelligence allows to make even more intelligent the development and the functionalities for these equipments ### 2. Commercial level interaction with the platform during a lab. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob M. | VP Business Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** For me the platform was easy to interact with once I had the terminology down and understood how it was structured. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I'm not sure that my opinion is super valuable in that I am not a technical user, but I would have liked to be able to navigate around to each of the devices through a graphical representation of the system that I was looking at. We develop such HMI's for our customers so that's just how I am used to seeing it. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** We intend to use the platform to interact with the anomaly detection tool set to train the AI in order to make us more effective at engineering analysis of the systems we are supporting. ### 3. Must Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** IBM Watson IoT platform is a great educational platform to learn features on IBM products. Its easy to use and intuitive so makes it easy to find topics and quickly identify what it is i need to learn. The courses give a general view which is good but more details are always helpfu;. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** IBM Watson IoT platform needs more details and examples when teaching end users on specific topics. This would be helpful to customers. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maximo ANywhere has been helpful. QUick learning capablities is the most beneficial. SIngle source of IBM products information ### 4. IBM Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I like the capabilities. I'm brand new to the concept of platform and learning what is needed to integrate within the platform (i.e - do we need Tririga or Maximo in addition to the platform? Is Watson integrated within the platform)? **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Just understanding what is needed to integrate within the platform or what all integrates within the platform. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Haven't started utilizing yet. We are considering the application for the intake of data from sensors (beyond gateway), running analytics on the data, providing insights via dashboard etc. ### 5. IBM Watson -- Differentiator for IoT **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** The IBM Watson IoT platform provides an easy path to building the "special sauce" for your IoT application. All IoT platforms are looking for that special differentiator and Watson fills that role. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I am still building my complete knowledge in IBM Watson. I have no specific dislikes at this point. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** My focus is in the Animal Health sector: companion animal and food animal. We look for quality of life in the companion animal space. We look for production optimization and savings for food animal. ### 6. IoT Platform for Intelligent devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** michael n. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Support of IBM technical teams. Allows visibility into data insights that were not available previously. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Nothing - Great platform. IBM technical teams have provided excellent support. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson IoT Platform:** Engage the IBM technical teams early and often. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** IIoT solutions for regulation compliance and critical facilities ### 7. Great product for data ingestion **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John "Jay" C. | Business Development - IOT, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I appreciated being able to use my IBM Cloud account for a data ingestion project. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** There is nothing to report in regards to what I disliked about this product. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product analytics.... ### 8. Why IBM Watson IoT Plataform is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LUISTER B. | Mr. Luister, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** the complete expericence, since the UX to speed **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** price, to start the project was a little bit hard. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** costs and erros, and the benefits are gain and quality ### 9. comprehensive and flexible **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** antonio r. | owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** the team has been good to work with the other vendors presentation very good **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** 500 pound gorilla tough to get things done in the beginning **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** monitoring filtration ### 10. IOT AT WIndtunnel **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** justin g. | Industry Liaison Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** the service of the technical support and the responsiveness to our needs. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** i had no concerns. Pricing is sometime complicated to understand **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** system operation optimization, preventative maintenance ### 11. IBM Watson IoT it`s Fantastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** All services int the Watson IoT platform represent a big increase of the technology at real world. I like the facility for create, buy or use lite plans embedded many resources to test ou use in production mode. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** The support for free plans (lite) it's very slow to attend the cases. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson IoT Platform:** Upgrade for new version of connectors and sensors **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connectivity with legacy platforms. ### 12. IoT Via Watson to deliver Active Performance Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** The underlying analytic capabilities to identify new correlations and to search and isolate know signatures in data to highlight operational issues with equipment **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** The lack of diversity in the data center and data storage. It limits our ability to provide services globally. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accelerated our ability to introduce new IoT and other remote delivered services. ### 13. We are a new IBM Business Partner. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** The support and collaboration from the IBM Watson team is fantastic. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Nothing to highlight at this time as we are fairly new to the Watson platform. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem we are solving is the integration of compelling analytics for our customers both for the Edge and the Cloud. ### 14. Watson is amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** The Watson platform has been instrumental in helping me to set up my smart home. I was reluctant to delve in at first but now it is a critical piece to the puzzle. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Can be tricky to learn. But given time it becomes easy. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me organize and run my smart home ### 15. Truly insightful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Creating an environment that fosters creativity and thoughts on how IoT truly enhances business operations. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Nothing so far has been to my disliking. Presentation, materials and speakers are top notch. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are discovering unrealized data to predict and proscribe better health outcomes for our patients. ### 16. Machine learning compared to AI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I liked that I got answers on my question regarding the difference between machine learning and AI. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I do not know. I do not know.I do not know. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** A communication platform for municipalities in Norway. ### 17. amazing product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** easy to use, great way to visualise data **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** i like everything about the product, no complaints **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are providing services in a more efficient matter, working more cohesively as a team ### 18. easy to use and reliable **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** support was super fast. due to this downtime was slow **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** there are some features that are not fully ready yet **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** quick time to market ### 19. IoT at its Best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** choices and options good knowledge gained from experts and partners **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** need topics to address management track **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** gaining knowledge to address IoT benefits ### 20. Great Platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** With Watson, I liked to connect things together and use them easily in an effective way. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I did not see anything I do not like. I think I did not evaluate enough to be able to say something I dislike **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting things and have them be manageable in an easy platform. ### 21. Great to get started, but barebones **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James M. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** I found the platform incredibly easy to get up and running. While using the product we had dedicated sales/support personnel from IBM walking us through the implementation. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Security was not as strong as we would have liked. We also found the rest of the Watson platform to be lacking compared to competitors (Azure, AWS). The admin panel was also weak, billing and closing accounts was a pain as well. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson IoT Platform:** Might be worth it if Watson ML/AI features are important to your business. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Device management, and OTA upgrades of our IoT hardware were extremely easy. Amazing tools to bridge IoT devices with Watson AI tools as well. ### 22. Connect your devices with Watson IoT platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradip R. | COE - SAP ME, Medical Devices, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** The best part of Watson is, you can develop the brain of all your connected devices at a single location. The added advantage if the node red flow node-red-contrib-ibm-watson-iot. IBM Watson provides several cognitive services to simplify the human machine interaction. The flow of node red node-red-contrib-ibm-watson-iot enables all the services at the local IoT landscape. Watson IoT also provides node red to simplify the logical message processing and configuration. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson IoT Platform?** Did not dislike any part of the solution. However, missing video training which can increase more customer to use this platform. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson IoT Platform:** It should be good if IBM creates some Database, Java server and Citrix based agents which can continuously send the system performance information to Watson. This will help to improve the health of the system in the business landscape using IBM Watson Analytics, This is a must requirement for an industry to run better. **What problems is IBM Watson IoT Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access to the home equipment from external location is a big advantage. Evaluating the Watson analytics and looks like that has a big potential to improve the data processing and analysis. Faster is better and simplified charting is another added advantage. ## IBM Watson IoT Platform Discussions - [What is IBM Watson IoT Platform used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-watson-iot-platform-used-for) - [View IBM Watson IoT Platform pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-iot-platform/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-25+09%3A10%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e18b8f02-0e15-49fe-8f3d-12b42f3ff7b9&secure%5Btoken%5D=276e6d5aa64b8ed9d4abed511b97ff2cf2c30ffe58eb57801cddcb9cac018cae&format=llm_user) ## IBM Watson IoT Platform Features **Data Sources** - Pre-Built Connectors - API - Performance and Stability **Device Recognition** - Device Discovery - Device Types - Dashboard ** Application Design** - Interface - Templates - Device Workflows - Testing - Hardware Support - Application Deployment **Analytics** - Queries - Dashboards - Visualizations - Insights **Monitoring** - Device Status - Alerts & Notifications - Analytics ** Application Control** - Data Migration - Data Syncronization - Data Security - Integrations - Lifecycle Management - Analytics **Metrics** - Device Performance - Operational Performance - Environmental Conditions - Resource Usage **Provisioning** - Remote Configuration - Event Triggering - Device Diagnostics & Repair - Firmware Updates ## Top IBM Watson IoT Platform Alternatives - [Google Cloud IoT Core](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-iot-core/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (29 reviews) - [Azure IoT Central](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-iot-central/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (15 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (694 reviews)