The move to the Internet of Things is bringing new players into the embedded market to deliver end-to-end solutions.
While M2M companies such as SIGFOX have been building their own cloud-based end-to-end solutions and then partnering with companies such as Microsoft to get scale, so enterprise and government software vendors are looking for the M2M network hardware and software capability.
As a result, Telit has teamed up with a US company called DM Inc to deliver end-to-end Internet of Things solutions
for the enterprise. The companies are aiming to make connecting ‘things to apps’
effortless, resulting in a data-driven customer experience that enables cost
reduction, improved compliance, personalisation and new revenue opportunities.
The collaboration with DMI has resulted in the
Cloud-based Telit IoT Portal, providing customers an intuitive single point of
access for integrating data from remote assets with their enterprise systems,
databases and Web-based mobile apps and dashboards. This combines their expertise in monitoring and control, industrial
automation, asset tracking, field service operations and predictive maintenance
to bring actionable business intelligence.
DMI started out in 2005 as an e-government software supplier, but it has been moving into apps and IoT over the last few years.
The slightly strange this is that this is market independent - this information will be available to organizations
across virtually all industries and market segments around the world, but this is consistent with DMI's claim to be the world’s first end-to-end mobility company, combining all the skills and services necessary to deliver mobile enterprise solutions through mobility, with expertise in mobile strategy, UX, web and app development, channel commerce, brand and marketing, big data management and analytics, and secure mobile device, app and data management..
For example, Tennant, a supplier of cleaning equipment, has implemented the integrated solution to
extract real-time performance data from remote machines to generate actionable
insights using big data analytics. Industrial customers and cleaning
contractors can now review when and where facilities are cleaned, determine
where machines are physically located, track consumable levels / order
replacements and perform preventative maintenance on a single unit or an entire
fleet worldwide.
“Telit works closely with an ever-expanding network of
recognized experts and innovators from the M2M/IoT community and we are excited
about our global collaboration with DMI to provide customized apps that help
organizations gain actionable intelligence from the thousands of IoT devices
connecting to their corporate networks,” said Fred Yentz, CEO of Telit IoT Platforms.
“As the Internet of Things continues its exponential growth
around the world, enterprises are challenged to produce tangible business
results through the connection of IT systems and M2M-enabled devices," said Sunny Bajaj, founder and CEO of DMI. "This
collaboration makes it easy for enterprises, large and small, to realize the
benefits of the Internet of Things by reducing cost, time-to-market, complexity
and risk versus trying to engineer a fragmented, in-house solution,” he said.
