IoT in Azure
TTMS Connected Factory 4.0 enables digital transformation for the industry.
TTMS Connected Factory is a complete platform enabling digital transformation for the industry.
Nowadays, regardless of the type of business, companies have a great opportunity to exploit the data they produce.
Depending on the type of business, we have data from sensors, robots, systems, which, when properly processed, give us the chance to better understand our activities and optimize
the whole process.
Challenge
AT-A-GLANCE
- Customer profile: Enterprise, global company
- Customer Size: 100 000+
- Country: Poland, USA
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Products and Services: Microsoft Azure
Customer struggles from the several issues:
- Different, incompatible data sources, hard to connect
- Long time period from the start of the process to the business benefits
- Lack of experienced employees, who could crate complex solution
- Lack of the module, where the business process could be mapped and delayed
- Lack of the storage for the information about signals gathered from diverse signal sources
Solution
The solution consist of several modules:
- Microsoft Azure – Platform as a Service
- Azure components organizing incoming signals from the device – adjusted to the individual Customer’s needs
- Databases
- Azure Application Insights
- TTMS Intelectual Property
- Compression and decompression of user’s data – for conserving data transmission
- Flow Controller – for implementing business process, such as alerting, custom actions
- Log Services – for logging all the signals, time and environment
- Management Portal
Outcome
Customer Benefits
- Making better business decisions based on the analyzed data
- Connection with the variety of industrial sources
- Conservere the bandwith through the compression and decompresssion data stream
- Modelling the business processs through configuring and routing the communicates and incidents to the proper receivers
- Scalability through the Azure Kubernetes Service
Architecture Building Blocks:
- Primary Signal Sources
- Customer-provided devices, capable of connecting to Azure cloud
- Other sources: mobile appliances, robots, parts
of the automated production line
Conclusion
Deployment of elements of the system is automated and can be executed on demand.
ARM template defining required elements of an Azure infrastructure, such as: IoT Hub, Azure Kubernetes Services or Application Insights.
In addition, set of parametrized automation scripts set up and wire communication and configuration of event flows.
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