Needham, June 8, 2016: PTC today announced at LiveWorx 2016 that it was expanding its Internet of Things (IoT) technology platform by delivering comprehensively distributed, real time edge computing capabilities, specifically designed for the rigor of industrial use cases.
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The company said in a release that it now offered a pre-integrated edge ‘solution stack’ that collected and aggregated data from sensors, performed highly automated machine learning and predictive analytics, enabled Web and mobile development, and supported augmented reality (AR) experiences. With these innovations, PTC not only supported edge computing with the technology platform, but additionally supported distributed, hybrid deployments that include capabilities both at the edge and in the Cloud.
Turning billions of points of data into actionable information is one of the IoT’s primary value-drivers, but organisations have historically faced challenges with traditional architectural approaches for IoT computing – due to the volume, velocity, and variety of data produced within an IoT ecosystem. PTC said it addressed “this challenge” with a robust platform that offered comprehensive IoT computing at the edge – computing that occured on or near the connected device itself. For organisations with cost, latency, and security considerations for computing, PTC removed reliance on the Cloud, keeping the entire IoT computing operation onsite, close to the point of data acquisition, said the statement.
These edge computing capabilities provided the foundation for an optimized IoT system architecture. Customers now had the flexibility to deploy the IoT platform capabilities they needed, in the computing configuration they want – deploying capabilities at the edge for speed and efficiency.
“Enterprises of all sizes and in all IoT-related industries cannot afford unplanned downtime that disrupts operations due to a lack of insight about how their devices are working,” said Jim Heppelmann, President and Chief Executive Officer, PTC. “By introducing real time edge computing capabilities, PTC is enabling IoT solution builders with incredible flexibility in architecting IoT deployments. In turn, solution builders bring efficiency, speed, cost control, and security to the IoT solutions that they develop for their customers.”