Global deployment
Expanding smart manufacturing globally is complex. Common challenges include purchasing servers, ensuring fast network speeds, maintaining online stability for numerous devices, integrating with multiple voice platforms, localizing for different languages, and meeting security standards. IoT Platform provides a global deployment solution to address these challenges. This solution reduces development and maintenance costs for manufacturers and helps them expand worldwide.
Introduction to the global activation center
IoT Platform is built on Alibaba Cloud's global nodes and supports device connections in more than 200 countries and regions. The underlying architecture can scale to connect over 10 billion devices, which meets the demand for connecting massive numbers of smart devices globally.
IoT Platform has upgraded its global capabilities to reduce the cost of managing device certificate flashing. After the upgrade, you no longer need to specify a sales region when flashing certificates. A device can be sold in any region worldwide after its certificate is flashed.
The following figure shows how the global activation center works. When a device is activated for the first time, it connects to the China (Shanghai) data center. After this initial activation, the platform automatically connects the device to the nearest data center based on the end user's location. Available data centers include China (Shanghai), Singapore, the US (Virginia), and Germany (Frankfurt). More data centers are continuously being added.
Compliance
The platform meets global compliance requirements for cloud services.
IoT Platform implements privacy protection and data security measures to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These measures help ensure that products meet GDPR compliance requirements.
The platform has passed the SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits, which are established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
Multiple languages
To support the global sale of devices, IoT Platform provides multi-language features.
IoT Platform currently supports 24 languages, including Chinese (zh-CN), English (en-US), French (fr-FR), German (de-DE), Japanese (ja-JP), Korean (ko-KR), Spanish (es-ES), Russian (ru-RU), Italian (it-IT), Hindi (hi-IN), Portuguese (pt-PT), Polish (pl-PL), Dutch (nl-NL), Danish (da-dk), Czech (cs-CZ), Slovak (sk-SK), Swedish (sv-SE), Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant), Turkish (tr-TR), Hungarian (hu-HU), Vietnamese (vi-VN), Indonesian (in-ID), Arabic (ar-SA), and Thai (th-TH).
Support for third-party platforms outside China
The Voice Service feature of IoT Platform has been upgraded. You can quickly connect to third-party platforms on the page. For more information, see Voice Service Overview.
The Cloud Intelligence App for IoT Platform is integrated with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and IFTTT. The platform also provides solutions to integrate your own branded apps with Amazon Alexa and Google Home. For integration instructions, see the following documents.