Seattle, Nov. 29, 2018: For developers of IoT applications, here’s some news. Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company has announced four services and capabilities that make it easier to ingest data from edge devices and build a rich Internet of Things (IoT) application.
AWS IoT SiteWise is a positioned as a managed service that collects, structures, and searches IoT data from industrial facility devices and uses it to analyse equipment and process performance data.
Customers can use AWS IoT SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute common industrial performance metrics, build applications that analyse industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues, and reduce gaps in production. Customers will be able to collect data consistently from devices, identify issues with remote monitoring more quickly, and improve cross-site processes with centralised data.
AWS IoT Events is a managed IoT service to detect and respond to changes indicated by IoT sensors and applications, such as malfunctioning equipment or a stuck conveyor belt, and automatically trigger actions or alerts. Using IoT Events, customers can easily detect events like this at massive scale by analysing data across thousands of IoT sensors and hundreds of equipment management applications in real time. 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.
AWS IoT Things Graph is a service to build IoT applications with little or no code by connecting different devices and Cloud services, such as linking humidity sensors to sprinklers to weather data services to create an agricultural application, through a visual drag-and-drop interface.
AWS IoT Greengrass Connectors gives developers the ability to connect third-party applications like ServiceNow for service management, on-premises software like Splunk for log analytics, and AWS services like Amazon Kinesis for data ingest via common Cloud Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). With this, developers can easily add more features like location-based services, replenishment, industrial data processing, alarm and messaging, repair and maintenance, logistics, and more, without writing code.
Dirk Didascalou, Vice President IoT, AWS, said in a press statement, “We are giving customers tools that remove the cost and complexity of building applications at the edge with rich data sources to drive better business decision-making. This frees them up to spend time innovating in their core business, instead of writing code to connect devices and IoT applications and to ingest actionable sensor data.”
New services make it easier to collect, monitor, and process industrial IoT data:AWS
Industrial companies such as manufacturers, energy utilities, and food processors want to be able to utilise their device data to drive faster and better-informed decisions, but much of this data cannot be easily collected, processed, or monitored. Extracting data from thousands of sensors across different locations is time consuming and expensive and device data is often stored on-site in specialised servers.