Leverage Node.js for IoT projects to benefit from its event-driven architecture, ensuring efficient and scalable solutions in modern applications.
The IoT platforms worth evaluating in 2026 are AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT, Google Cloud IoT alternatives, ThingsBoard, EMQX, Losant, Particle, Balena, Home Assistant for consumer work, and Node-RED for prototyping. The bigger lesson is that platform survival matters more than features: IBM retired Watson IoT, GE's Predix was broken up and sold, and several 2018 favourites no longer exist. Build on open protocols such as MQTT so that a vendor exit costs you a migration rather than a rewrite.
