How does Skysens AgPM differ from other monitoring platforms?
Since the term Industry 4.0 was coined, manufacturing companies began their shift to Industrial IoT solutions. According to Statista, the global market size for IIot will hit $1.11 trillion by 2028. There is no doubt that IIoT adoption is gaining momentum. Yet, this doesn’t mean that the path is free from obstacles. Like any technological evolution, challenges surface as more industrial facilities migrate from legacy systems to an interconnected mesh of sensors, controllers, data processors and integrated AI capabilities. Namely, organizations grapple with hardware incompatibility, connectivity issues, real-time data processing, security issues, and a steep learning curve. Given the variables that might affect a successful industrial IoT rollout, perceived economic value, and subsequent operations, industrial enterprises search earnestly for a reliable integrated platform that can be flexible enough with their ongoing operations. In this article, we’ll show you how using an Agile Predictive Monitoring Platform addresses major concerns in IIoT projects.
What is Agile Predictive Monitoring Platform?
Agile Predictive Monitoring Platform (AgPM) is a digital product that helps industrial enterprises integrate, manage, and monitor connected devices and optimize their ongoing processes with help of AI in an agile way. Developed by Skysens, AgPM promotes integrability, where teams can deploy sensors and edge devices on supported networks and connect to AI models easily. For example, AgPM’s easy-to-use and flexible interface allow engineers to deploy sensors communicating with long-range industrial grade Skysens LoRaWAN network easily without cabling. Instead of siloed operational data, Skysen’s AgPM enables OT-IT convergence too, which allows data democratization across technical teams. The platform allows any operator to harness operational data for actionable operational and business intelligence purposes. Likewise, IT teams can provide better support to OT infrastructures by consolidating data on a single platform securely and efficiently.
Why Is AgPM unique?
AgPM is engineered to fill glaring gaps in the current IIoT landscape. It is flexible, comprehensive, easy to use and highly integrable. For a start, AgPM allows industries to implement IIoT at scale and extract data from legacy systems with ease. It features a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface with industrial data adapters and edge device management tools that enables integrated data flows without rigorous technical training for both existing and new data sources. Besides enabling quick implementation, AgPM provides a common data-sharing platform that allows AI implementation to activities and process optimization. Users can manage and share data assets and reports with inbound and outbound data integrations easily. Companies require a secure data pipeline to transfer massive data acquired from IIoT devices.
Key Features of AgPM Platform
These features make the Skysens AgPM platform a viable IIoT solution for various industries.
Integration friendly
Skysens AgPM provides a comprehensive integration option for system engineers. This includes physical integration devices, industrial network integrations, and platform and enterprise-level integrations. It bridges IT and OT infrastructures by providing a single control point for technical and business teams. Besides integrating new IIoT equipment, our AgPM can work with legacy systems that are already in use in the enterprises, such as SCADA, DCS, MES, and ERP. Instead of discarding old systems for new ones, companies gain significant savings by leveraging AgPM as an integral part of existing infrastructure.
Hardware compatibility
Be it devices that run on low-power IoT technologies such as LoRaWAN and NBIoT, the AgPM platform allows system engineers to bring together different types of IoT devices easily. Engineers use Skysens AgPM to consolidate and manage IoT devices on all premises instead of designing individual middleware and integration adapters. Skysens AgPM supports standard industrial data adapters, such as OPC DA/UA, MODBUS TCP, SQL connections, MQTT, and REST APIs, to enable a diverse range of IoT and industrial devices to communicate on the same network. For example, AgPM creates a single MQTT data flow to manage thousands of device data easily and securely.
####Flexible deployment Unlike conventional monitoring platforms, Skysens AgPM does not restrict IIoT deployment to a specific type of network architecture. It provides equal efficiency when deploying, consolidating, and managing industrial data in public, private, or hybrid cloud architectures. This helps businesses to balance data privacy, security, and availability across the organization. Skysens AgPM is also edge deployable. Edge deployment is necessary for infrastructures where real-time processing and zero latency are top priorities. It is easy to deploy the AgPM on edge hardware even without an internet connection. This allows timely processing and filtering of data before ingesting selected data to a central data storage.
Data sharing and analytics
One of the main drivers for industrial IoT is the possibility of harnessing vast amounts of data from industrial data pipelines. Skysens AgPM makes the process easier with intuitive data sharing tools and no code analytics. With no code interface, any technical operator can derive actionable insights from the acquired data without creating complex BI models.
Diverse applications
The AgPM enables seamless IIoT applications for industries. System engineers can deploy the AgPM for various applications, including energy efficiency, predictive maintenance, asset performance, health and safety and environmental (HSE), and production improvement. For example, Skysens AgPM is deployed in the Istanbul Airport to enable smart logistics, predictive maintenance, and energy efficiency applications simultaneously on a single infrastructure.
Customizable
Skysens AgPM breaks away from the rigidity of conventional facility monitoring systems like SCADA. It provides a fully customizable interface that lets front liners personalize features to align with workflows. The platform offers plug-and-play capabilities to allow hassle-free setup or customization of IoT management features.
How APM Platform Helps You In Your Industrial IoT Implementation
Organizations use the Skysens APM platform for these reasons.
Improve efficiency
Theoretically, transforming legacy infrastructure with AI with IoT capabilities is key to increasing business process efficiency. However, such efforts are often bogged down by the complexity of segmented networks, wide physical areas, data inconsistencies, and diverse hardware types. Scaling industrial IoT systems without addressing these issues will defeat the purpose of such transformations. With Skysens AgPM, your facility managers gain a top-down view of the entire infrastructure, and enjoy a 70% time reduction in data preparation. The platform enables them to locate problems in large industrial areas quickly. They do so by analyzing the data to identify abnormal trends and hone in on the source of the issues.
Provided data-driven insights
To remain competitive, your managers must support their decisions with timely data-driven insights. With AgPM’s edge-deployment capability, managers can easily access data analytics on-premise. It provides possibilities for various use cases, such as predictive maintenance and root cause analysis. For example, managers apply the data in change analysis to investigate contributing factors to a drop in production quality in collaboration with our team members.
Reduce costs
Skysens AgPM helps your organization reduce costs and increase profits by applying AI to optimize industrial processes. It spares you from investing in different technologies or replacing existing infrastructure with new ones. Instead, AgPM works alongside legacy platforms and modern hardware to minimize unnecessary expenditure.
Conclusion
As industrial IoT continues to evolve, businesses need a reliable, all-inclusive and flexible platform to support their digital transformation efforts. Skysens AgPM allows companies to bridge legacy systems without excessive spending. It provides data intelligence capability to improve efficiency, mitigate issues and empower OT-IT convergence.
