Remote Monitoring of Facilities / Assets

Transform your building into a smart connected facility

As the famous saying goes, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Collect data
from every area of operations – from lighting levels, HVAC, signage, to fire
arrangements – in your facility network, regardless of manufacturer and get the
visibility you need on humidity, temperature, pressure, airflow, fluid or water leaks,
smoke and much more. Smart Facility Monitoring solution helps you to improve user
experiences, reduce operational costs and enhance preventive maintenance planning
using real-time and historical data with AI capabilities.

Alarm and notification

Sends detailed, automated alarm descriptions and correction instructions to facility

managers and repair technicians.

Remote operation

Remote operation of your site devices eliminates the need for site visits, provides a
better look into the devices’ functioning and increases your assets’ up-time.

Predictive maintenance

Identifies issues in time so that you can address them before they lead to machine
failure. This minimizes equipment downtime and maximizes its life.

Multi-layer security

 Enterprise-grade, end-to-end security

 Device identity management
 Access Security using Device Identity Management, OAuth 2.0
 Protocol transmission over TLS
 Multi-factor authentication for apps
 Role-based access control

Easy configuration and management

 Device registration without any hassle or programming knowledge

  Multi-tenant architecture
 Device identity management
 Asset management
 Remote troubleshooting
 Restful API for data access and integration
 Secure access from any location, any device
 Search based navigation
 Time series analysis
 Process graphics
 Geolocation / mapping
 Customizable dashboards
 Condition management, alerts and notifications

Edge and predictive analytics

 Edge analytics to make quick decisions

 Real-time monitoring with live graphical charts
 Extensive real-time streaming analytics
 Machine learning and statistical algorithms
 Connectors for data visualization

Real-time alerts and notifications

 Create smart rules for autonomous actions

 Fully customizable workflows and notifications
 Detect anomalies and get alerts about potential problems

Easy integration and connections

 Cross device communication support

 Supports different industry-grade protocols
 Web services and APIs to simplify exchange of information
 Micro services-based architecture
Asset Management and Monitoring

Asset monitoring and management solutions enabled by IoT not only help you gain
better control over your equipment and machinery, but also make positive impacts
on aspects like increasing efficiency and productivity, reducing operational costs,
increasing customer experiences, etc. For companies looking for competitive and
effective ways to monitor and manage assets remotely, an IoT-enabled asset tracking
and monitoring solution can help optimize operations and track return on assets
(ROA).

Asset Management and Monitoring refers to a systematic process of tracking and

maintaining valuable things for any business entity or organization. It may include
human assets like human resources or moving assets such as cranes, vehicle fleets or
non-moving assets like industrial equipment, raw materials, finished goods. An asset
could be a simple single device or a hugely complex structure comprising numerous
sensors. These assets need maintenance in electrical, mechanical and hydraulic
aspects to make them functional with a proper regulatory framework.

Asset management involves the tracking of every physical device, either big or small,
in an organization. It gives every detail about the status, location, condition and
performance of the device in real-time. It helps in balancing and improving
productivity with low cost-effectiveness. In the simplest form, asset management and
monitoring can be described as a systematic process where assets are detected,
categorized, supervised, maintained, operated, upgraded, and replaced cost-
effectively.

Since IoT is a network of interconnected devices comprising sensors, software and

network connectivity, the data collection and exchange becomes feasible between
multiple systems. IoT technology gleans essential data about equipment
performance, energy utilization, fault detection, and predictive maintenance when
sensors are attached to equipment and systems.

Asset statistics per floor/site map

 Average asset online, availability and utilization

 Most and least used asset
 Asset utilization (weekly and monthly)

View and locate asset details

 View and monitor assets

 Track asset location in the floor plan/site plan
 Click on any asset to view it's details like name, id, images, documents, videos,
health index, current status (online/offline) etc.

Asset health

Monitors the efficiency of your assets to perform predictive/preventive maintenance

Asset online

Indicates the number of active assets

Asset availability

Specifies the number of assets that are working properly and are available for use

Asset utilization

This KPI is to reflect how assets are utilized. It helps businesses ensure they get
maximum output from their assets
How Asset Monitoring Works

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give us details like capability to store and feature can monitor
places where devices present the data about certain KPIs that are
are situated, and their asset location, usage, generated using
movement, idling, and movement details, etc. predefined role-based
other statistics reporting
How Data Analytics Solution Works

Step 1

The first step is to determine the data requirements or how the data is grouped. Data
can be separated by age, demographic, or gender. Data values may be numerical or
divided by category.

Step 2

The second step is the process of collecting the data. This can be done through a
variety of sources such as IoT sensors, controllers, wearable, mobile/computers,
cameras, etc.

Step 3

Data will be collected, standardized, normalized, and cleaned so it can be analyzed

properly. Once the datasets are cleaned, they can be analyzed by using various
techniques.

Step 4

Modelling and algorithms (also know as mathematical formulas) may be applied to

the data for identifying relationships among the variables for generating an accurate
model.

Step 5

An accurate predictive model is developed based on the aggregated data using

statistics, curve fitting tools, or machine learning techniques for forecasting future
events.

Step 6

The predictive analytics goes beyond sorting and describing data, therefore, it relies
heavily on complex models designed to make inferences about the data it
encounters.

Step 7

These models utilize algorithms and ML to analyse past and present data to provide
future trends. Each model differs based on the specific needs of those employing
predictive analytics.

Step 8

Decision trees use branching to show possibilities stemming from each outcome or
choice. it helps the solution understand various needs and inputs for specific data.
Step 9

Regression techniques assist with understanding relationships between variables.

Neural networks utilize algorithms to figure out possible relationships within data
sets.

How does IoT- enabled asset management and monitoring solution work

The general structure of an IoT network consists of devices to interact with the
environment, a gateway for collecting data and communicating with the cloud and
the cloud platform for storing, processing, and analyzing the data.

Step 1: Data acquisition and transmission to the cloud

Sensors collect data from the ambiance and then send it to the cloud with the help
of an intermediary device. The device prepares the data by cleaning, preprocessing
and analyzing for transmitting it to the cloud.
Role of Sensors: Sensors are input devices. They help measure environmental
parameters like temperature, light, moisture, etc. and transmit this information to the
device, which acts as a control unit for the sensor.

Role of Devices: They act as controlling units of sensors. For example, running a
self-cleaning cycle or reducing the temperature are the preprocessing activities
controlled by devices before transmitting the data to the cloud. They collect the
information from the sensors, preprocess it and then send it to the cloud. Hence,
they are regarded as smart devices or things in IoT. These devices communicate two
kinds of data like state and telemetry.

State Information: It refers to the device’s current status, structured /unstructured

and read /write form. States and events send commands, verify if the command is
acknowledged or if any error is encountered in the checksum.

Telemetry: It refers to read-only data—for example, environmental parameters such

as pressure value, temperature value, etc.

Step 2: Data Processing

Once the data is transmitted, the cloud pub/sub (messaging service) receives
messages from the devices which are securely connected to the cloud. Then, the
messages are published for the subscribers to read and data pipelines are generated
using beam pipelines from the device to their destination. Some of these platforms
include BigQuery, BigTable, Cloud Storage. The data processing stage involves the
following tools.

Device Manager: For connecting the device, it has to be initially registered in the
device manager. The device manager contains a device registry, where each
authenticated device is registered and configurations are set.

Communication Protocols: These protocols help the devices to communicate with

the cloud. The protocols like the MQTT bridge or HTTP bridge are used depending
upon the requirement.
Serverless functions: These are single-purpose, programmable functions, which are
hosted on infrastructure. As these functions are event-driven, they perform the
actions only after the event gets triggered.

Beam pipeline: They assist in building data pipelines to process the entire data
workflow in batch and streaming modes. Apache Beam is a widely used
programming model to set up parallel processing and optimize data pipelines for
simplifying large-scale data processing.

Step 3: Data Analytics and Machine Learning

After processing the data, it is analyzed to develop actionable insights. Data analysis
and ML are performed on the cloud. The accumulated data in storage systems of the
cloud becomes accessible to BigQuery and Cloud Bigtable. The comprehensive data,
including historical data, real-time streaming data, and metadata, are combined to
generate accurate data insights. Following tools are used to develop actionable
insights.

ML Models: They are used to detect and identify anomalies from the devices.

Data Warehousing Tool: It stores and runs a query on the data to obtain insights. A
serverless, highly scalable, low-cost enterprise data warehouse makes the data
analysis more effective. AWS Redshift, open-source Hadoop or GCP Bigquery are
some of the effective data warehousing services. While selecting an appropriate data
warehousing tool, it is essential to consider:

 Data processing type (batch or real-time)

 On-demand scalability
 Efficiency in querying and storage of structured data

Step 4: Generation of dashboards and reports based on meaningful and

actionable Insights.

After the thorough stages of data collection, data processing and data analysis, data
reporting and dashboarding solutions are the eventual steps to gaining insight into
events. The data gets turned into customized reports that are easy to read, share,
and appropriate for managing assets. Google Datastudio, Kibana, Tableau are some
of the widely used tools to convert the data into informative and customizable
dashboards and reports.

Infrastructure Requirements

IoT solution performance heavily depends on both the number of messages

produced by devices and the structure of those messages. Once we have basic
information on below mentioned parameters, will be able to estimate required
infrastructure.

Performance requirements

1. Total number of connected devices, assets, users and tenants in production or

per year;
2. Maximum and average amount of messages per day per device;
3. Maximum and average size of device payload;
4. Average amount of data points in each message;
5. Communication protocol or Integration type used for device connectivity;
6. Entities data lifetime (in years).

Hardware

 CPU
o Minimum: Intel Core i5 dual-core with 4 threads
o Recommended: Intel Core i7 quad-core with 8 threads or higher
 RAM
o Minimum: 8 GB
o Recommended: 16 GB or higher
 Storage
o Minimum: HDD with 100 GB of free disk space
o Recommended: SSD with 100 GB of free disk space or more