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Advantech and Alibaba cloud accelerate the implementation of cloud IOT

in the Internet field, many eco chain enterprises or customers believe that Advantech is focused on embedded industrial computers. Sun Li, product manager of Advantech (China) industrial automation group, explained that we want to tell you that Advantech also has many professional IOT solutions, and has been at the forefront of the industry in data sensing, intelligent acquisition and reliable transmission. We hope to cooperate closely with enterprises from the Internet and IOT fields, who understand their needs and are good at software development, explore the needs of intelligent manufacturing and smart city fields, improve the overall solution, and help more IOT projects in vertical fields

cloud IOT is the future that is happening

in Wuxi, an enterprise called Huayuan Kaima produces generator sets to supply power to signal towers in remote areas. You can imagine how difficult it is to monitor and maintain these generator sets. Continued use will lose reliability, safety and security. Recently, Huayuan Kema has adopted Advantech's device remote connection and positioning scheme, and the location and status data of the generator set are automatically collected and transmitted to Alibaba cloud. Through the remote monitoring software deployed on the cloud, the relevant person in charge of Huayuan Kaima can monitor the condition of the generator set and trace important data. This solves the problem that the company had to send personnel to remote areas for business trips to repair generator faults

in Hangzhou, an investment leasing management company is also doing similar things. It has a large number of garage doors in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and stores valuable assets for customers. Before, they had to rely on manual inspection to monitor the condition of garage doors. Now, the company has adopted the Advantech remote equipment monitoring and control scheme, and the status of the garage door is collected and transmitted to Alibaba cloud in real time. Sitting in the monitoring center, the person in charge of the company can understand the situation of garage doors everywhere and can open them remotely. Truly realize unattended

not only enterprises, but also some urban management departments are also investigating the cloud remote monitoring and control solutions of Advantech and Alibaba cloud. One of their needs is to monitor the intricate Urban Pipelines in real time, so as to find the water and air leakage problems at the first time, and timely deploy maintenance personnel to solve them before the problems become serious

special needs of IOT

since last year, there has been an increasing demand for remote monitoring and unattended through the cloud. Sun Li shared the observed IOT trend at the yunqi conference. Advantech plays an important role in automation, embedded computers and intelligent services. However, Sun Li and others found that the emerging demand for IOT is significantly different from the demand for industrial automation in the past

for example, in intelligent manufacturing projects, the monitoring, status prediction and maintenance of remote equipment need the support of big data technology. For most enterprises, this is a professional and complex project. Few enterprises can hire professionals to carry out big data modeling and analysis. Therefore, customers need directly available big data analysis and cloud computing platforms

similarly, the current smart city IOT project is prone to collect data from tens of thousands of extremely scattered points. If the traditional automation method is adopted, the data of each point should be collected first, and the data should be integrated through the customs or processing center, and then transmitted to the cloud. In the process of going to the cloud, customers have to build their own servers and rent VPN networks, which is very expensive

many customers find that the data they need to collect is actually very single, but it takes so high a cost to build such a complex architecture. Obviously, this scheme is inappropriate. Sun Li said

for these emerging IOT needs, some companies are building solutions if they can use smart home in most environments, but end customers prefer to choose brands and products from the industrial field to obtain more reliable services. After all, in many cases, data collection and transmission should be carried out in a harsh environment, and high-speed and high-precision should be guaranteed. It is impossible without a certain amount of technology accumulation

Alibaba cloud has been working in the field of IOT for more than a year. Ouyang Kefei, deputy general manager of Alibaba cloud business group Internet plus, said that since last year, we have expanded to industries and other in-depth fields. We found that there is a huge demand for data integration and analysis in this field. We need to cooperate with professional leading enterprises in the industrial field. Therefore, Advantech and Alibaba cloud came together to carry out cooperative innovation

this is another important cooperation in the field of cloud computing after Yanhua cooperates with Microsoft azure cloud and China Mobile cloud enterprises

cloud joint innovation

in the cooperative innovation between the two sides, Advantech has developed new products that meet the needs and characteristics of IOT, such as data acquisition module wise-4000, based on the original industrial automation products. It embeds Alibaba cloud's cloud application into the hardware very firmly. In the connected environment, data can be directly sent to the cloud without passing through devices such as shutdown. This data cloud architecture is simple and cost-effective, which is suitable for large-scale data collection and fast cloud application scenarios. The power consumption of the new data acquisition module is also lower, and it also supports mobile device access, which is in line with the trend of mobility in the industry

IOT sensing terminal directly to the cloud

at the same time, Advantech's device remote monitoring software can also be deployed to Alibaba cloud. In the past, industrial automation enterprises paid more attention to how to use hardware solutions to realize factory automation. However, in the era of IOT, data integration and data visualization of different devices have become the focus, and software has increasingly become the core part. Sun Li analyzed. Therefore, based on the continuous improvement of the professional knowledge of the masters, Advantech launched the cloud version of the original visual analysis software WebAccess, which is specially optimized for the public cloud, and provides a vertical domain cloud version for data presentation and analysis according to the application scenarios of intelligent manufacturing, water treatment, smart city and so on. WebAccess has become our business focus. Sun Li said

in terms of Alibaba cloud, in addition to providing basic cloud computing services for the industrial IOT field, it also works with ecological partners in the industrial IOT field such as Advantech to explore and expand big data modeling and analysis according to specific business scenarios, especially remote device fault prediction and maintenance applications

at the same time, both parties also provide corresponding technical solutions for the security and data stability issues that customers are most concerned about. For example, the IOT collection module of Advantech has its own encryption mechanism, such as account password, HTTPS encryption and white list encryption, to protect the local security of data. Alibaba cloud uses data encryption storage, fragmented storage and other technologies to ensure the security of customer data, and uses Alibaba cloud shield products to prevent customer systems from being attacked and ensure the security of customer systems

the emerging cloud ecosystem

is not just an alliance with cloud computing enterprises. In the vertical industry, customers often need a complete set of solutions, which cannot be achieved by one or two suppliers

taking intelligent manufacturing projects as an example, enterprises need to integrate equipment status data, production scheduling, order data, etc. for analysis. Therefore, in the project layout, data sensing, acquisition and transmission are involved; Data needs to be connected and integrated between different systems, such as production execution control system and ERP system; We should also model and analyze data on the cloud computing platform. This requires the cooperation of enterprises in different fields

in 2012, Advantech launched and established the webaccess+ IOT application alliance. The purpose of the alliance is to establish an integrated IOT solution that integrates various technologies and gathers a variety of information through alliance and cooperation with partners in different fields for the vertical market

Advantech webaccess+ IOT application alliance works together to create a win-win situation.

in the Internet field, many eco chain enterprises or customers believe that Advantech is focused on embedded industrial computers. Sun Li explained that we want to tell you that Advantech also has many professional IOT solutions, which have been at the forefront of the industry in data sensing, intelligent acquisition and reliable transmission. We hope to cooperate closely with enterprises from the Internet and IOT fields, who understand their needs and are good at software development, explore the needs of intelligent manufacturing and smart city fields, improve the overall solution, and help more IOT projects in vertical fields