South African industrial internet of things IoT.nxt has received recognition in 2025 Mafic Quadrant for Global Industrial IoT Platforms.
The company received an honourable mention in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IIoT Platforms 2025.
The accolade is important for IoT.nxt, placing the Centurion-based company among the world’s leading industrial internet of things (IIoT) platforms and highlighting its progress in building a comprehensive edge-to-cloud industrial IoT suite designed and developed in Africa, for global operations.
“Being noticed by Gartner is an important milestone for our customers, partners, and our team,” said IoT.nxt’s CEO Lazo Karapanagiotidis.
“We believe that It validates that our modular remote management system (RMS) platform, AI-driven automation, and vendor-agnostic approach meet the high technical bar of the global IIoT market.”
IoT.nxt uses data from sensors, systems, and assets within organisations with the aim of helping them streamline information, reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, and eliminating operational risks.
The company operates across several sectors, including telecommunications, smart buildings, mining, and utilities, providing leading-edge computing, machine learning, and digital twin technology in real-time.
“Now we’re focused on scaling, reaching industries, more regions, and offering more products, so we can convert recognition into a plotted position,” Karapanagiotidis added.
IoT.nxt takes on global players
IoT.nxt matches or exceeds global players in a number of ways, in agility and modularity, in vertical outcomes, in live AI, and in openness:
· Agility and modularity: Microservices architecture enables rapid composition of vertical solutions.
· Vertical outcomes: Pre-configured logic for telecoms, energy, and infrastructure reduces deployment time.
· AI in production: Predictive and conversational analytics are already embedded.
· Openness: Customers retain their preferred hardware and cloud environments; IoT.nxt simply makes them smarter.
Next steps
We believe that Gartner’s inclusion thresholds emphasis scale as much as capability. IoT.nxt’s next phase focuses on:
· Expanding presence in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific;
· Adding traction in transportation, logistics, and utilities;
· Demonstrating fleet-scale deployments across tens of thousands of assets; and
· Growing an international ecosystem of certified partners and integrators.
Africa‑born, globally competitive
In our opinion IoT.nxt’s recognition underscores South Africa’s capacity to produce world-class deep-tech innovation. Designed for local realities—load-shedding, remote sites, theft risk, the platform has become a resilient, efficient, and scalable solution for industrial automation worldwide.
“We’re proud that a team based in Gauteng is competing toe-to-toe with global incumbents,” Karapanagiotidis said, thanking his customers, partners and the IoT.nxt team. “We’re just getting started.”
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IIoT Platforms (8 September 2025).
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About IoT.nxt
IoT.nxt is a South African industrial internet of things software company headquartered in Centurion, Gauteng.
Its remote management system (RMS) is a modular, vendor‑agnostic platform that connects and controls heterogeneous industrial assets across edge, hybrid, and cloud. With plug‑in managed element modules and integration modules, and embedded AI/large language model‑powered analytics, IoT.nxt helps organisations reduce energy spend, improve uptime, and automate operations at scale, without replacing existing equipment.