Dryad vs. Upswift, from JFrog

Dryad is well suited for situations where you are lacking data and or on the lookout for more interesting datasets to work with. It is also easy to read about how the authors collected the data and even provides a link to email them in case you need more information.

Incentivized

For us, it has been well suited for monitoring devices that are placed remotely and have no easy access to. Most of our devices are sent to customers which we have little or no contact with. Rather than the customers finding a problem, reporting it to us and then us investigating it. We can just be notified of the problem and deal with it without the customer realising.

• Data curation
• Easy to use website
• Data in any format

Incentivized

• Accelerates remote management for iot devices
• Allows for remote upgrades and fleet management
• Alerts us when devices go offline allowing us to be more proactive with our customers

• More incentives for people to contribute data
• More promotion of the platform so people know about it
• Expand data categories

Incentivized

• Nothing at this stage

The website isn't as clean as that for Dryad and there seems to be less support for the end-user. However, it appears that they also have a large number of data repositories and have backing from many well-known universities. Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference and likability.

Incentivized

I haven't really found any other product or service which does the same as UpSwift, therefore I have not needed to look for alternative products

• 35% time saved when it comes to cleaning
• Obviate the need for purchasing data
• Do not need to hire people to collect data

Incentivized

• Ability to scale our network