Meadow IoT Platform Reviews & Provider Details

The C# abstractions, top notch hardware, very supportive, communicative staff, and the open-source of a lot of the framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No clear guidance on FFI capabilities, so using a C library for extra performance isn't always possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meadow has dramatically streamlined the IoT development process for our company.

Its .NET support makes it incredibly easy to tap into a rich ecosystem of people, libraries and tools that we are already familiar with.

I am particularly impressed by the hardware development loop when combining Meadow on Windows.

Meadow’s capability to run C# natively opens the door to advanced computational operations right on the device using the best toolchain in existence today.

With Meadow Cloud you now have a device fleet management system which helps understand the health of the devices once in the field and rollout patch releases over the air.

Overall, it is a cohesive, platform with a strong vision and roadmap which will significantly shorten the learning curve for enterprises with existing skills and ultimately build more robust and secure IoT solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like all new-to-market products and services, there are still some gaps in functionality and one or two known issues that you need to work around, but Wilderness is closing these gaps with each release.

From an enterprise standpoint, secure certificate support is likely to be needed as well as encryption at rest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Meadow IoT Platform is so simple, you can teach a 4th grade class how to use it, yet so powerful, you can run the most mission critical workloads on it.

SIMPLE

- No need for C++, Embedded C, or MicroPython.

- No OS install requirements prior to launching your code.

- No need to buy extra hats, components, or other items, to run the most basic of projects

EASY TO USE

- Leverage C# or any other .NET supported language.

- Get started with minimal IoT experience.

- Supports OTA (Over the Air) updates.

OPEN SOURCE

- The hardware and the software

SECURE

- by default

QUICKLY PROTOTYPE

1. The Meadow F7 alone can be up and running, connected via Wifi and Bluetooth, blinking an LED with smallest amount code.

2. Plug the F7 into Project Lab and you have a fully functioning IoT environment that interact with and control more items than you knew existed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the Meadow IoT Platform has a strong driver library to support the most common IoT components on the market, there will always be the need to support more.

The plus here is that the device driver library is open source. Meaning that if there isn't a driver for your particular device, it's not too far of a jump to build it using open source device framework along with support from their team and the community. Honestly a win-win. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a .NET developer, being able to use the same code platform for both backend server development and front-end device development dramatically increases efficiency and reduces time-to-market. In addition, the sames development staff can be used for both ends of the product, increasing institutional knowledge and speeding development and debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with any new product, challenges arise in features yet developed, and bugs yet fixed, however I have thoroughly enjoyed the entire development journey with Meadow, and have successfully created the product I set out to create, and did so beyond any expectations I could have had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

.NET-based, clean designs, lots of innovation, tons of investment to continue adding great features, and tons of drivers. Support and team interaction to help build a better product via Slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keeping up with the changes is hard. The early days had many redesigns of signatures, class names, and assemblies. Updates are hard to deploy to lots of devices (Meadow Cloud is on the way). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.