Advantech and Actility announced the launch of a new joint solution allowing to deploy and manage private LoRaWAN networks on customer premises, by combining advanced and ruggedized Advantech IPC with embedded Actility software, bringing a highly reliable and secure career-grade service with extended compatibility with gateways, cloud platforms and devices.
This integrated solution aims at meeting the needs of the fast-growing industrial automation market, by allowing businesses to deploy their IoT use cases in a simplified, quicker et more efficient way, thus accelerating the realization of Industry 4.0.
The Edge Solution-Ready Package, under code name ESRP-ACT-UNO2484, consists of Advantech's new generation UNO-2000 series of Embedded Automation Computers with a preinstalled version of Actility LoRaWAN network server – ThingPark Enterprise – for set-up on customer premises, which means in a closed environment allowing to ensure complete end-to-end security, instead of its SaaS cloud version. The software is pre-installed under an upgradable 3 months trial license, allowing up to 10 supported gateways and up to 2000 devices. Accelerating industrial facilities digitalization with easier and more powerful data collection.
ThingPark Enterprise is a LoRaWAN IoT connectivity management platform that helps customers build network infrastructure by managing LoRaWAN gateways, add new LoRaWAN devices, monitor network operations, and control the flow of data to application servers. ThingPark Enterprise is specifically designed for enterprises: it’s simple, scalable and easy way to operate, and offers a unique low power IoT communication infrastructure to enable an infinite number of industrial use cases.
LoRaWAN is a widely used wireless protocol that allows battery-operated devices to communicate with IoT applications via long-range, wireless connections, allowing longer battery life, thus lowering the cost of device ownership.
The Advantech-Actililty Edge Solution Ready Package allows customers to:
- Build a multi-gateway, geo-redundant, high-availability LoRaWAN® network with a user-friendly interface and monitor it in real-time
Olivier Hersent, CEO at Actility
Stability is key for IoT as maintenance costs quickly add up when managing thousands of devices. It is even more important for Industrial IoT. Our partnership with Advantech combines field proven industrial computing with the leading carrier-grade LoRaWAN infrastructure and edge processing, adapted to seamlessly integrate with both industrial protocols and leading IoT platforms.
Ching-Po Lin, Associate Vice President at Advantech
Although countless facilities are equipped with advanced hardware, the lack of remote monitoring mechanisms makes them susceptible to minor disturbances, lowering efficiency or even halting operations. Therefore, we collaborate with Actility to help customers accelerate the development of industrial applications and build a smart manufacturing environment.
