Let's consider a jet engine manufacturer...

What most IoT vendors claim

• "We provide the manufacturer with an IoT platform that delivers real-time insights into the jet engine's performance and reduces the manufacturer's costs of maintaining that engine."

What most actually do

• They provide the manufacturer with an app that monitors and switches on/off the data traffic between the jet engine and a data center.
• They provide the manufacturer with an app that collects, stores and displays jet engine's sensor values.

What PTC claims and does

• We provide technologies (Machine Learning, AEP, Augmented Reality) that enable our partners or the manufacturer itself to build, deploy and evolve secure and scalable IoT solutions that deliver business outcomes.
• These IoT solutions combine data from the jet engine as well as from the manufacturer's and 3rd-party systems into easily consumable insights about the manufacturer's assets, processes and customers.

Read more about PTC's IoT enabling technologies: thingworx.com