We're not so much as keeping up with the
trends but I would say that we are at
the forefront of the trend in terms of
being a connectivity provider that
is offering solutions ranging from
the devices themselves to The Cloud
solution and the connectivity platform.
We have over 10 years of research in
connectivity, ultra low-power devices and
algorithms so we're exploiting these
research elements to offer
solutions and provide provide new
answers to all problems.
They've been some major problems up
till now and one of the biggest issues
has been with the battery and because
battery power until now has
represented the the main barrier.
If you have a large numbers of
mobile assets connected with the
battery-powered devices and then any
benefits that you see are removed from the
battery logistics. However, we've
implemented ultra low-energy techniques
and also we have onboard energy
harvesting. This is a game changer
because it means that our devices can
send messages every five minutes for the
length of the lifetime of the asset.
There's different elements to the zero
maintenance challenger. One of them is
the battery life, but there's
also bi-directional communication,
which means that we can update the
firmware remotely from anywhere so you
can change and enhance the features on
demand and we've also made sure that
it is future proof by implementing
multiple communication protocols and so
as the standards develop, we
have the things on board.
Absolutely, I mean we developed this
initially for the containers but then
we noticed that the greatest
attraction at the moment is in the rail
freight sector so we have a new device
which is an ATEX class one device which is
now being equipped onto
rail freight fleets and we've just
signed a deal with one of the major
European rail operators that will
make us market leader in the next year.
There are various markets that are opening
to us. We have opportunities in the
security sector and also in
logistics, across the logistics chain and
I think the real future of this is
once the infrastructure starts to be
implemented on a large scale and it's
about the value return on investment and
and the opportunities for the customer
in terms of the events and the
notifications so you don't want to
receive too much information. As you can
see there's massive amounts of data
coming in but the data needs to be
managed with big data algorithm so that
only the important events actually
reach the customer for action and also
it's about enhancing the whole
chain so you have the
ERP connection or the the business
intelligence connection so that you can
actually start to to automate the
business processes and to reduce your
costs throughout the business with the
information. One of the the things that
we tend to focus on this the events, so
this is where the real
value is and we want to, with our
complex event processing we
want to enable the customer to combine
events on an ad hoc basis. We call it
complex event processing and this is the
really clever stuff that you can do with
the big data and with the analytics
platform that we've put in place.