Connecting Machines, Sensors and IT

See how Alleantia and Intel are rewriting the rules for Industry 4.0 with a middleware solution that bridges the gaps between machines, sensors and IT applications.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing almost every aspect of how industry operates. All functions—from maintaining machines to managing supply chains to developing new products and processes—can be optimized and made smarter, autonomous, and networked by capturing and analyzing data more intelligently, and using that insight to manage the operations of machines and processes. Systems and products can become smart by making their embedded intelligence available to create new applications with focused and personalized features. Systems information regarding usage and consumption can also enable new, smart services and business models.

Alleantia, together with partner Intel, is rewriting the rules for Industry 4.0 transformations by offering a new middleware solution that bridges the gaps between machines, sensors, and the broader IT applications. With plug-andplay ease, Alleantia Industry 4.0 middleware can communicate with virtually any machine a company might be utilizing, so that machines don’t have to be replaced or upgraded to extract data for companies’ processes. Empowered by Alleantia technology, virtually any machine or device can instantly feed data into multiple enterprise IT applications, such as those from SAP and Microsoft, without requiring ad hoc development. What’s more, larger enterprises that already have specific, proprietary processes managed through ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning), logistics, asset management, and other IT applications, are quickly able to augment their existing processes by leveraging machine information. With Alleantia’s plug-and-play middleware, industry’s IoT capabilities can be greatly expanded as machines and devices become smarter and fully connected to their enterprise IT systems and, ultimately, to their decision-makers.

Industry 4.0 presents some incredible opportunities for manufacturers and any other industrial enterprise, but getting crucial operational data from machines of many different types, using many different technologies and communication languages, represents a massive technical and economical challenge. The Alleantia IoT Gateway Server and IoT Scada Server solutions quickly connect virtually any device to on-premise and cloud IT infrastructures and applications, with plug-and-play simplicity, speed, and cost effectiveness. The XPANGO Library, the largest collection of drivers for industrial machinery in the world, powers all the products of Alleantia, from intelligent gateways to powerful local control systems with data analysis and web visualization functions, and plug-ins to multiple, widely used IT infrastructures, cloud, and application platforms.

Alleantia solutions enable industrial companies and OEMs to transform the way they operate day-to-day. It gives the entire organization access to data and analytics that open new opportunities for process improvement, enhancements in machine utilization, creation, and delivery of new products, services and revenue streams.