Pricing

The use of SIOT offers great benefits, but it also creates some costs. These related costs depend on various parameters, as follows:

• number of connected inputs & outputs
• size oft he database for long-term storage of data
• bandwidth oft he related IoT traffic
• service level defined in the service level agreement (SLA)
   

The use of SIOT is paid via SIOTcredits. And there are different ways, how you can get SIOTcredits:

• as a student or research lab of university of applied science Bern (BFH), you get SIOTcredits free of charge (please contact us).
• as an eqipment manufacturer, you can bundle the use of SIOT together with the purchase of your equipment hence enable your customers to use a cloud IoT solution (please contact us).  
• and you can buy SIOTcredits via SIOT.me.

Good news: during the current pilot trial phase, you can obtain SIOTcredits fee of charge on SIOT.me.