San Jose, June 29, 2016: Cisco has announced the extension of scalable industrial solutions in the Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with new IoT products, keeping its edge in the Industrial IoT space.
According to a post on its blog by Tony Shakib, Vice President of Cisco’s IoE Vertical Solutions Engineering Organisation, one of the three solutions that had got Cisco support was LoRaWAN solution.
The Cisco solution for LoRaWAN combines Low-Power-Wide-Area (LPWA) LoRaWAN with Wi Fi and cellular technologies and is designed for cost-effectively connecting billions of such battery powered, low-data rate and long distance IoT sensors. The solution includes the Cisco Integrated Module for LoRaWAN, which extends existing industry-leading industrial routers IR809 and IR829 with a ruggedised LoRaWAN interface, Cisco IoT Field Network Director, and partner’s back-end LoRA network server.
The Cisco solution for LoRaWAN can be deployed for a wide range of use cases in industrial and smart city applications such as the following:
- Connected Assets (Asset tracking and asset management)
- Logistics (supply chain management, consignment tracking)
- Smart cities (smart parking, street lighting, waste management, etc)
- Intelligent buildings
- Utilities (water and gas metering)
- Agriculture (soil, irrigation management)
The other solution was ‘Connected Machines’. With 92 per cent of today’s 64 million machines not connected to a network, there was a great opportunity for organisations to make their production environments smarter and more efficient, said the blog post.
Cisco Connected Machines delivers a complete solution to securely connect devices, transform machine data into real time insight and grow recurring business when working with machine builders and manufacturers. By implementing the Connected Machines solution, Cisco’s manufacturing customers can benefit from the domain expertise of machine builders to drive machine process improvements through real time corrective action and continuous, predictive maintenance.
Under the Connected Machines solution, Cisco is now offering an extension of new products, including:
IE4000 with IOx: This application framework runs on all IOx-enabled network infrastructure. The platform has pluggable micro-services and can reliably integrate with IoT sensors and cloud applications in a highly secure way, while processing data closer to the machine.
Connected Streaming Analytics: Provides real time analytics running on the IE4000 for small footprint deployment with IOx-enabled fog applications
Cisco’s IE4000 switch, IOx enabled fog applications and Connected Streaming Analytics combine to securely connect machines, extract the machine data and deliver real-time actionable insights.
The Cisco Connected Factory, the third solution, enhanced with new IoT connectivity and security products, delivers a complete Industrial Zone solution for customers to scale security, simplify network management and extend the scope of IoT. As part of the Connected Factory framework, Cisco is announcing two new industrial switches IE4010 and IE1000, and enhancements to industrial security appliance ISA3000.
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