Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT


Industrial M2M cloud platform

2 March 2011 Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Sierra Wireless announced the availability of AirVantage Smart Automation, an extension to the company’s AirVantage cloud platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.

AirVantage Smart Automation simplifies the connection to industrial equipment and the creation of embedded business logic without programming.

Combined with pre-configured AirLink intelligent gateways, Sierra Wireless provides a complete end-to-end solution for industrial M2M applications. This solution enables equipment manufacturers and service providers to create and deploy new services and offerings for their customers, such as tiered monitoring and maintenance, demand response applications, and time- or location-based equipment usage pricing models.

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, is using AirVantage Smart Automation to provide customised managed services for its electric vehicle charging stations in the SAVE project. “AirVantage Smart Automation allows us to provide customised service packages and remote monitoring to charging station customers,” said Nicolas Descazeaud, electric vehicle programme director at Schneider Electric. “We can tailor our services to meet unique customer requirements and service level agreements while at the same time managing our costs effectively.”

The AirVantage platform is a cloud platform that facilitates comprehensive subscription, device and asset management through a remote M2M application. The Smart Automation extension integrates these capabilities with industrial control systems. AirVantage Smart Automation makes it easy to set up custom business logic to collect, sort, prioritise, send and store data without the need for programming. Existing backend systems can be integrated or new M2M applications can be implemented using standard web service APIs.

AirVantage Smart Automation delivers numerous benefits to the M2M value chain, including machine manufacturers, system integrators and service and maintenance companies. It provides advanced application support by allowing the developer to deploy new services that reduce costs and increase system reliability. An example is premium hourly system monitoring that provides more accurate and ­sensitive monitoring for higher-risk, higher-value systems. The application can be distributed to the embedded communications client and the server, which improves machine reliability by eliminating the need for machine-level programming of the industrial components.

Remote application update allows the system developer to install new industrial applications and upgrade existing applications by simply updating the AirVantage Ready Agent logic, rather than changing the industrial component’s control logic, simplifying the process required to meet specific customers’ needs and reducing the number of field service trips required. Anytime, anywhere access gives users access to information and controls on remote machines anytime, from anywhere, increasing responsiveness and flexibility while controlling operating costs. Data transmission costs can also be reduced by configuring the system to send data only when necessary, using AirVantage Smart Automation’s local alarm generation and data-filtering features.

AirVantage Smart Automation is applicable to a wide variety of market segments, from oil and gas, to municipal water treatment, to green power generation. For example, it makes it simple to monitor turbidity and water pressure in a dynamic environment, with the ability to change monitoring and control parameters as needed and to proactively take corrective action when thresholds are met, before a situation becomes critical.

Providers of solar, wind, hydropower, or oil and gas extraction and distribution systems can reduce operations costs by using the remote access capabilities in AirVantage Smart Automation to service equipment at even small or very remote sites. Other revenue-generating and cost-saving applications may be developed for mobile and geographically diverse products and services, such as mobile air compressors, vending machines and outdoor advertising.



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