Our IoT software is designed to capture, store, and process data in this layer. The two main stages of data processing are:

• Data Accumulation
  Every device is sending millions of data streams across the IoT network. Separating the essential data from these large streams is the priority of this layer.
• Data Abstraction
  Once the data accumulation stage is concluded, selected data is filtered out from large streams of data for the application to optimize the business processes. Here data abstraction follows the path of:
  • Collecting all the data from all IoT and non-IoT systems (for example, Customer Relationship Management – CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning – ERP or homegrown ERPs & Environmental Resource Management – ERM)
  • Using data virtualization to make data accessible from a single location
  • Managing raw data in multiple forms
    

Interoperability among devices and architecture plays a crucial role in the processing layer. Once data accumulation and abstraction are complete, it is easy for data analysts to use business domain acumen in fetching intelligence factors.

The primary goal of edge computing is to reduce latency requirements while processing data and resulting in saving network costs.

Our Edge devices can integrate with numerous connectivity technologies such as:

• WiFi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network), Cellular networks, NB-IoT, RF, and other established standards.
• Several popular messaging protocols are supported by our IoT system thus allowing seamless data sharing. Some of these protocols include:
• Data Distribution Service (DDS), Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), Restful and Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)

When multiple devices try connecting with the main IoT software platform, it can clog the entire system. Here our Edge computing technology solves the bottleneck by putting computing power into our field gateways.

In our IoT architecture design, the Automation layer has the main function of transforming analog signals into the digital form and vice versa. These come in a multitude of technologies including:

• Smart Sensors
  Understand and detect the change in their environment and further streamline information to their system. Generally, these sensors are small and low-power devices. Sensors have the unique ability to detect physical parameters such as humidity, temperature, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), movement, and so on, and then transforming them into electronic signals.
• Smart Actuators
  These represent a part of the machine that allows an electrical signal to be transformed into physical actions. These Actuators play a crucial role as components of IoT networks.

Our architecture has no limitation of quantity, location, or distance between Edge devices, Smart Sensors, and actuators.