S. Podolski
BleedIO Tech,
United States
Keywords: connected devices, IoT, smart manufacturing, data collection, logistics, asset management
Summary:
IDC research in the connected device space lists the top customer problems as security, latency, cost, complexity, hardware/software limitations and interoperable industry standards. These challenges find their origin in IoT’s traditional hub and spoke design and have extended their “staying power” as no better options have existed, until now. The BLE Mesh standard, unlocked by netMESH, provides “hubless,” point to points, military secure, networks. Our netMESH product is the first of its kind, improving productivity, profitability, and safety for organizations using IoT connectivity. netMESH adopts a newly released Bluetooth standard to optimize current IoT technology and existing infrastructure, by organizing all makes of sensors onto a self-healing network of peers. It also creates new and improved processes for asset, traffic, and sensor management, applicable for all industries. Smart manufacturing is "sensor-led", data dependent, and only "smart" when network connections are reliable and resilient. Historically, this has been a challenge as the reliance on a central hub presents a single point of failure, latency and of course cyber security risks. Implementing BLE Mesh, with our netMESH product, removes the hub, improves connection speed, and security while avoiding downtime, and reducing resource consumption. Clean data and no down time, the future is here. Customers of all types have embraced the technology for the same reasons; speed, resiliency, security, low resource consumption, range, scalability and interoperability. For energy companies in need of meter or micro grid telemetry, cellular, wired, or satellite connectivity is unreliable and prohibitively expensive. For event and retail organizations, our netMESH SaaS offers visibility into traffic levels, engagement, timing and location, by transforming smart devices into "readers" and leveraging the mesh technology for data collection. Aviation applications are abundant as well, from asset and personnel management, to lost baggage and RMO processes. When it comes to netMESH, and its positioning in the market, we acknowledge the presence of established competing standards like WiFi, Z-Wave, and Zigbee, as well as companies developing IoT connectivity solutions based on these standards. Each of these technologies has its strengths, but they also present limitations that highlight the unique value proposition of netMESH and the BLE Mesh standard. This is the ultimate in first to market advantage as no other option exists, while the industry suffers with (addressable) but long-standing challenges, hungry for solutions to meet their needs. Additionally, this standard is complex. The complexity has kept companies away from working with this value, new, network standard. The cost and implementation ease, compared to the value created and problems solved, supports retention, as does the high switching, and direct costs, associated with traditional, and failed options. THE netMESH ADVANTAGE netMESH BLE-based architecture offers easier provisioning, better scalability, and a more streamlined process for integrating devices from multiple vendors. Communication speeds, accuracy and network reliability all improve. Additionally, our "Network in AdvanceTM" feature allows remote provisioning, something Zigbee networks cannot handle.