Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) is offering communications service providers (CSPs) intelligent tools packed into a platform to help them manage Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.

HP's IoT platform allows CSPs to simultaneously manage IoT sensors and provides them with OSS and BSS capabilities.

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"We're enabling some metering capabilities, home automation for both utilities and consumers, a public lighting management application so municipalities can intelligently manage their streetlights, and we're opening the platform for additional smart city services," HP's chief technologist Jeff Edlund told Light Reading.

"We're bringing them both the platform and verticalized applications." Edlund added.

The platform will also allow CSPs to process, analyze and monetize collected data in a secure cloud platform, according to a report.

"One of the key differentiators we're bringing to the table is the data analytics piece -- it's going to give the carriers something entirely new to monetize by providing access to all of that data and new insights," said Edlund.

"And one of the coolest things we're delivering with this platform is an application development studio for the IoT."

Many tech companies are apparently shifting their attention towards the IoT. At the MWC 2015 show, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, Finnish ICT firm Nokia Networks is planning to demonstrate fifth generation (5G) technologies for the IoT.

Swedish communications and technology provider Ericsson has made a similar move to that of HP's when it recently announced its partnership with Bridge Alliance on deploying the company's Device Connection Platform (DCP) for managing the IoT.

Ericsson intends to deploy the platform for Bridge Alliance's 36 telecom operators in Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. 

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