Yoics, Your Device Cloud

The Big Picture

Yoics is a networking solution that allows users to configure their various devices to become accessible across the interent. The solution is secure, while being easy to setup.

At its core, Yoics can be thought of as a “TCP service” level virtual private network (VPN) technology, that provides a means of communicating to any service via an encrypted peer-to-peer (P2P) connection. The core daemon, Yoics, is highly portable and can easily work in any operating system environment with a TCP/IP stack. Released versions of Yoics are available for Windows, OSX, Android, IOS, Linux, uLinux and various RTOSs.

Yoics provides its technology to market as consumer software applications, embedded within other manufacturers’ products and as developer tools. The Yoics desktop software, available for both Windows and OSX, allows any resource on a personal computer to be made accessible from anywhere on the internet. The Yoics mobile apps, available for both IOS and Android, allow peer-to-peer access from any mobile device to any other Yoics-enabled device. The developer tools allow any software application developer or manufacturer of network related devices to enable their products for secure access from any mobile device or web browser.

At the heart of the solution is the Yoics service, which provides the naming and discovery and manages all of the secure peer-to-peer connections between people and their devices or devices between themselves. Similar to how domain name services (DNS) work for web-sites on the internet, the Yoics service allows users to name their devices and get a link that they, and only they, can use to access their stuff. Through the Yoics sharing service, users can also provide this link to trusted family and friends. Premium sharing provides detailed control, including the ability to put limitations on time, number of accesses, duration, etc.

The Problem and How We Solve It

In a world where everything is connected to the Internet, it is actually hard to network various devices to one another. This is especially true for the various silos of LAN and mobile devices from various makers. To make a device on a LAN remotely accessible requires the network router to be configured to open a port and for the remote user to know the (static) IP address and port number to access it. This type of complex configuration is typically beyond the skill set of most consumers and also creates a security vulnerability that can be exploited by a variety of threats.

Yoics secure, direct networking changes everything. Enabling secure networking across the internet using Yoics only requires registration with Yoics. Direct network connections are peer-to-peer, encrypted, and each connection session is protected using a unique security key. Yoics will be the provider of internet-based direct networking to the the billions of devices that are on the Internet that need to be connected.