The IoT application platform market is perhaps one of the most crowded parts of the Internet of Things. For a couple of years, it was very vocal – but now, it has collectively got quite quiet, perhaps due to the looming presence of the cloud giants. However, among the pile, Ayla Networks has emerged as a success story – and one with big expansion plans. Ayla’s main product is the Agile IoT Platform (PaaS), but it also offers the Insights business intelligence and analytics service, the Agile Mobile Application Platform (AMAP) app creation tool, the Mobile SDK, and its Phone as a Gateway (PaaG) service. In terms of customers, there are heaps – ranging from Hisense and TCL in the…