Gigaom | Spark Labs raises $4.9M to make an OS for the internet of things
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And according to Zach Supalla, the CEO and founder of Spark, that next step is the creation of a set of technologies to underpin the cloud side of the internet of things. This began with the sale of physical hardware last year, but going forward the goal is to use the development boards as an entry point with broadly adopted products eventually buying their own components. Supalla believes that by launching the development boards initially to the maker community he has tapped into the people who are also building products for big-name companies investigating the internet of things. “In many cases a programmer who codes at work also writes code at home, so this idea that people who play with hardware — or makers — are completely different people seemed false.” With the launch of boards, he’s introduced a bunch of engineers to the Spark platform and is now building it out to the needs of bigger-name clients aiming to connect their devices online. It’s a pretty competitive field, but it’s also so new that the opportunity feels fairly limitless, since everyone is basically throwing connectivity at products just to see what sticks.
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