With the caveat that it typically is easier for an application provider to add new features and create new platforms, compared to a connectivity provider, Twilio’s new Microvisor platform shows how an enabler of voice, text, chat, video and email services in any application is migrating towards support for internet of things.
The move illustrates how a communications enabler adapts its current business to developing new markets, much as connectivity providers hope to add support for internet of things and edge computing.
Microvisor is said by Twilio to be “an IoT connectivity and device management platform that offers embedded developers a one stop shop for building connected devices, keeping them secure, and managing them through their lifetime.”
As was the case with the original Twilio platform that basically would voice-enable any application, the Microvisor platform abstracts away many of the common infrastructure challenges burdening IoT developers, the company says.
That includes functions such as security, debugging and updates and language and embedded operating system support, including hardware such as the Cortex-M microprocessors and select STMicroelectronics chips.
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