Companies collaborate to develop IIoT connectivity solutions

Advantech, Behr Technologies (BTI), Hitachi Solutions America, and Microsoft have announced that they are collaborating to produce wireless communications solutions with unmatched scalability, reliability, and security for private IIoT networks. Since they claim, no single technology provider can allow IIoT alone, this joint effort will offer the first mass-market, end-to-end wireless gateway solution to guarantee connectivity with sensors for production-level industrial and commercial applications. The solution will provide extensive scalability, the deepest possible building penetration, integration and interoperability with legacy systems, as well as very long battery life for nodes. This collaboration aims to answer growing need in the marketplace for strong and comprehensive out-of-the-box wireless IIoT communications solutions to join the various sensors used by commercial and industrial customers in their business intelligence efforts. The foundation for the joint effort is BTI MIOTY, a LPWAN communications solution that is claimed to be the first and only to use the ETSI standard TS-UNB technical specification for low throughput networks, allowing organisations to deploy private IoT sensor networks with unparalleled capacity, high QoS, and low total cost of ownership. Using industry-standard Advantech gateways, BTI MIOTY will transmit up to 1.5 million messages per day within a radius of 5-15km, with no carrier demands. Layered on top of this infrastructure, Hitachi Solutions’ IoT Service Hub will allow organisations to connect and monitor devices and analyse the data in real-time to dramatically better operational efficiencies.