Overview
Enterprise operations have become more complex. Businesses and government agencies deploy an increasing number of
diverse devices, systems, and networks to satisfy requirements for more sophisticated and detailed real-time information
from facilities, infrastructure, and remote locations. Such deployments may include sensors, wireless sensor networks,
RFID systems, video devices and systems, access control systems, metering and measurement devices, actuators, and
databases and file repositories, just to name a few.
Regardless of the application, these devices, systems, and networks often communicate in proprietary protocols over
separate network infrastructures, which create walls between data, events, and control functions. This limits the usefulness
of the devices and systems and removes the opportunity for dynamic monitoring, control, and automation solutions. In order
to unlock the true potential of these data, enterprises must overcome the cost and capacity challenges involved with
converging devices, systems, and networks.
From a cost perspective, the integration and normalization of data, events, and control functions from diverse sources
often requires a great deal of development, testing, and deployment time for customized software code and device-specific
middleware components. Because of the time involved, some enterprises skip this task altogether, leading to underutilized
investments. As a result, critical devices and systems are stranded, providing little value to the enterprise. The end
results are wasted time and investments.
From a capacity perspective, the proliferation of these devices, systems, and networks can overwhelm the bandwidth of
networks, especially wireless networks. In addition, the volume of data received without prior filtering and event
processing could overwhelm enterprise end-users. A lack of robust capacity management can lead to inefficient networks
and overwhelmed personnel.
Fortunately, Augusta Systems EdgeFrontier products
help enterprises to overcome these challenges by enabling rapid creation of open, interoperable solutions, featuring
distributed processing, control, and automation throughout the network infrastructure. By providing configurable technology
platforms for building and managing intelligent convergence solutions, Augusta Systems allows enterprises to unlock new
features, decrease solution development costs, improve operational efficiencies, and increase the return on investment
for new and legacy devices, systems, and networks.
These dynamic solutions are achieved through seven key capabilities of Augusta Systems EdgeFrontier technologies:
- Integration
- Protocol/format encoding and decoding
- Complex event processing
- Notifications and alerts
- Event and policy-based actions
- Data correlation and fusion
- Bi-directional communications (for monitoring, control, and automation)
Working directly with clients and through
key partner relationships, Augusta Systems EdgeFrontier is used to create solutions for
safety and security,
energy and utilities,
asset tracking, and other business functions.
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