These are tools that eliminate the complexity of creating applications with rich data sources to drive better decision making
04.12.2018 • 15:24hs • Smart apps
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), the subsidiary of the e-commerce giant dedicated to cloud computing, announced its strategy to conquer the growing market of the Internet of Things (IoT, according to its acronym in English).
The company revealed its plans at its annual "re: Invent" meeting in the US city of Las Vegas, of which iProUP participated.
These are four important services and capabilities that facilitate the entry of perimeter device data and rich applications for the IoT, namely:
- AWS IOT SiteWise: collects, structures and searches records of the Internet of things in equipment of industrial facilities and uses them to analyze equipment and process performance data.
- AWS IOT Events: facilitates the detection and response to changes indicated by sensors and IoT applications, such as malfunctioning devices or a jammed conveyor belt, and automatically activates actions or alerts.
- AWS IOT Things Graph: facilitates the creation of applications with little or no code by connecting different equipment and services in the cloud. For example, the linking of humidity detectors to sprinklers with climate data sources to create agricultural solutions.
- AWS IOT Greengrass Connectors: offers developers the ability to connect third-party software such as ServiceNow, for the management of services; local software, such as Splunk, for the analysis of records; and AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis, for data entry through common application programming interfaces (APIs) in the cloud. From them they can easily add more functions based on location, replenishment, processing of industrial records, alarm and messaging, repair, maintenance and logistics, among others, without writing code.
"Clients tell us that they want to spend less time in the heavy, undifferentiated work of getting different devices and services working together, and more time innovating in full-featured IOT applications," said Dirk Didascalou, vice president of the Internet of Things. things in AWS, during a press conference with Latin American media in which iProUP participated.
"We are providing customers with tools that eliminate the cost and complexity of creating applications to the limit with rich data sources to promote better business decision-making," he said.
According to Didascalau, "this allows them to spend time innovating in their main business, instead of writing code to connect devices and applications and ingest data from processable sensors". This was indicated at the following conference:
Industries
Manufacturing manufacturers, energy companies, food producers and other industries want to use the data from their devices to make faster and better informed decisions. But a large part of these records can not be easily collected, processed or monitored.
Extracting data from thousands of sensors in different locations is time-consuming and expensive, and device logs are often stored on specialized servers.
To help these customers realize the value of their industrial data, AWS announced AWS IOT SiteWise, which is already available in preview mode.
Users can use this service to monitor on-site operations, quickly calculate common industrial performance metrics, create applications that analyze equipment records to prevent expensive equipment from breaking down, and reduce production gaps.
They will also be able to collect information consistently from the devices, identify problems with remote monitoring more quickly and improve processes between sites with centralized data.
They can also use AWS IOT Events, which facilitates industrial, commercial and consumer customers to detect and respond to events from different IOT sensors and applications.
These events are record patterns that identify changes in the equipment, such as a conveyor belt that jams or a motion sensor that detects movement after hours.
By using this service, these large-scale events can be identified by analyzing data on thousands of IOT sensors and hundreds of real-time computer management applications.
For example, when temperature changes indicate that a freezer door is not sealing properly, business logic can be used through AWS IOT Events to send a text message to a service technician.
The case of Bayer
The European giant has a central focus in the fields of the life sciences of health care and agriculture.
"At Bayer, we constantly strive to achieve the highest operational equipment (OEE) effectiveness within our manufacturing facilities by capturing, monitoring and analyzing metrics," said Peri Subrahmanya, product manager of the company's IOT.
"AWS IOT SiteWise enables uninterrupted data capture of relevant open platform communications (OPC) data flows through a gateway device and the modeling of our cloud bombing, processing and cutting equipment to help to build analytical control panels, "added the manager.
In addition, he remarked: "Then we can use these panels to identify inefficiencies and take corrective measures."
New capabilities
The promise of IOT is that customers will connect devices and sensors to create a unique view of an environment, such as a farm or factory, and then build applications that address the needs of that environment in a comprehensive manner.
However, this ideal has been difficult to achieve in practice: getting all devices and applications to work together requires customers to navigate through a complex range of interfaces and device protocols.
The IOT device connection requires developers to take several tedious, time-consuming and low-level steps to get the devices to communicate with each other and then to other "apps" before they can write the business logic provided by the device. real value.
AWS announced new capabilities to build and extend IOT applications. One of them is AWS IOT Things Graph, which allows developers to create IOT programs representing devices and services in the cloud as reusable models.
In this way, they can use a visual drag-and-drop interface instead of writing low-level code.
This product reduces the time required to make devices and services work together by providing a graphical way to represent complex real-world systems, and implements IOT applications on devices running AWS Greengrass so that programs can respond more quickly, including if you are not connected to the Internet.
With AWS IOT Things Graph, developers can create complex applications that automate home security, connect devices to an enterprise resource management (ERP) system for the analysis of the supply chain and link the HVAC system of an office tower with climate data services to reduce energy costs, among other functions.
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