Industrial Automation Magazine India

Connecting Bluetooth to the Cloud

Published on : Friday 18-10-2019

 

Portland, Or, Oct. 17, 2019:  Rigado, a provider of Enterprise Bluetooth for Commercial Internet of Things (IoT), has launched its Edge Connect Platform today.

According to a press statement issued by the company, Edge Connect “reduces complexity and time to market for large-scale IoT projects,” providing easy, extensible device connectivity, Edge Computing and Cloud integration. It reduces TCO and time-to-deployment for integrated solutions. The Rigado Edge-as-a-Service platform is deployed in more than 15,000 locations across 75 countries.

Key Edge Connect features include:

• Plug-and-play connectivity for Bluetooth devices such as occupancy sensors, environmental monitors and asset tags.
• Configurable Edge data processing that collects real-time sensor data and streams it to Cloud endpoints such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• An Edge Computing platform for deploying and managing custom IoT applications in the highly secure Ubuntu Core snap framework, managed for customers by Rigado as a service.

• In addition to launching Edge Connect, Rigado made several major updates to the other core products that comprise its Edge-as-a-Service offering:
  
  Network Security — Rigado offers network-wide secure key management, making it easier to protect large, distributed groups of endpoints against malicious attacks. Combined with Rigado’s ability to secure devices at the point of manufacture and provide lifetime field security patches, this new capability further ensures reliability when deploying IoT at scale.

  Device Management — With an expanded set of configuration and orchestration tools in Rigado’s Edge Direct management platform, it’s now easier than ever for solution providers and systems integrators to roll out and manage production Enterprise IoT solutions.

  The new Edge Connect platform runs on the Rigado-designed Cascade Gateway, which natively supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and mesh wireless connectivity, and is purpose-built for Enterprise IoT environments. Edge Connect will also be compatible with third-party edge compute platforms, allowing companies to leverage Rigado’s configurable edge data processing on existing and future edge infrastructure.

  Kevin Tate, Chief Revenue Officer at Rigado, said in the release, “The ability to securely and cost-effectively gather real-time data from commercial environments is the key to unlocking Enterprise IoT’s potential. By simplifying the collection, processing and delivery of Bluetooth sensor data, Edge Connect allows our customers to focus on driving immediate business value – rather than on expensive custom development.”