Mason will build IoT hardware so businesses don’t have to

Mason, a Seattle startup formed in 2015, started building tablets and handheld devices that ran Android, but it recently launched a wearable device for health monitoring or worker safety.

Mason’s wearable device can work as a watch or a sensor placed on a lanyard or other means of attachment. It can be used to track people via GPS, and it can gather biometric data including heart rate and temperature. The device also has a camera and runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ chip, which is used in a variety of smart watches.

What’s notable about the Mason wearable and other Mason hardware is that they run Mason OS, a software platform that lets customers run and manage IoT applications on the Mason hardware in an enterprise-friendly manner. This means a developer can build an application or take an existing application and run it on a consistent version of hardware across an entire enterprise.