Building automation systems help facility managers to meet sustainability goals, lower energy use, and save costs. Traditionally, connecting building automation systems to the cloud has been expensive, time-consuming, and labor-intensive, often requiring complicated IT systems and putting buildings at risk for security breaches.
IoTium* offers a solution that is simple to deploy, manage, and maintain—significantly reducing IT maintenance costs—while exponentially enhancing security. Whether managing hundreds of buildings or thousands, facility managers can migrate building automation management to the cloud, without disrupting operations. Facility managers can also deploy edge services and analytics across their entire portfolio with a single click.
"IoTium's zero-touch provisioning resonates well with customers that need simple deployment and manageability of edge gateways within buildings and other commercial and industrial IoT applications."
— Jason Shepherd IoT Strategy and Partnerships, Dell*
Provision. Secure. Deploy.
IoTium's network infrastructure solution was built with security at its bedrock to protect buildings' operational assets, data, control systems, and IT systems. With IoTium, facility managers can securely connect any asset through any gateway to any cloud, on any infrastructure and using any operator—all without an IT technician.
The solution has three components:
IoTium iNode on remote gateway
IoTium provides each site with an Intel® IoT Gateway pre-provisioned with the IoTium iNode software, including all necessary certificates and keys for secure communication with the data center or cloud. These plug-and-play gateways are shipped directly to the buildings, where they simply need to be connected to the building automation system.
Secure connection to vendor applications
Virtual iNodes are set up wherever vendor applications reside—whether in the data center or the cloud. A secure peer-to-peer network is established between these iNodes and the iNodes on-site. Each communication channel is completely isolated through software, so a breach in one sub-system (such as lighting or CO2 monitoring) does not compromise another.
IoTium Orchestrator*
The Orchestrator* is a web-based application that lets facility managers monitor and manage the entire network of iNodes from a single interface. Orchestrator gives facility managers a 360-degree view of building automation systems, and lets them deploy new software, upgrades, and security fixes across thousands of remote sites in one click from the cloud—no truck roll required.
Why IoTium?
Zero-touch provisioning
No need for onsite IT support. Simply ship the gateway to the remote site and power it on. The preinstalled, cloud-managed software automatically authenticates, provisions and configures itself, downloading all necessary policies and automatically deploying over-the-air updates—in as little as 30 minutes.
Secure by design
Protect sensitive business data from backdoor breaches. IoTium iNodes establish secure encrypted tunnels between the building automation system and any application in the cloud, preventing data re-routing and eliminating the possibility of DDOS attacks and data theft.
Instant scale
Deploy, update, and upgrade across thousands of buildings with a single click. IoTium allows facility managers to migrate management of building automation systems to the cloud, making it possible to monitor, manage, and maintain smart building systems at scale.
Edge services
Place analytics, machine learning, encryption, compression, and other services closer to the data source for faster processing. IoTium's edge platform allows multiple applications to use building data simultaneously and securely in their respective isolated compute and memory environments.
Connect everything
IoTium's solution supports any building management system, any protocol, any gateway, any operator, any infrastructure and any cloud service—without costly and complex changes to existing IT infrastructure.
Reduce costs
IoTium significantly reduces capital costs by eliminating the need for onsite fixed function devices, such as firewalls and VPN tunnels, and enabling one-click deployment of updates and upgrades across thousands of sites without costly truck rolls and field tech visits.
Modern Building Automation at Minimum Cost: IoTium's Solution at Work
IoTium's solution is enabling commercial and industrial facility managers to affordably migrate management of building automation systems to the cloud for streamlined management and increased security.
Commercial building management company saves big with IoTium
A large North American commercial building management company's building automation systems were disparate, time-consuming and costly to maintain.
The company deployed IoTium's network infrastructure as a service, enabling it to securely connect multiple locations with zero-touch and migrate management of building automation applications to the cloud, without any changes to existing IT security policies.
Building management vendor lowers costs and increases security with IoTium
A North American building management vendor's provisioning process, which involved sending a technician to each site to configure the hardware and provision the firewall and VPN tunnel, was too costly for retail customers with a large number of small locations.
IoTium's zero-touch provisioning eliminated costly and time-consuming technician site visits. In addition, IoTium's solution allowed the company to isolate its customers' building automation data from their enterprise IT data while using the same physical infrastructure—dramatically increasing security and improving customer satisfaction.
ROI
The company realized significant savings from elimination of truck rolls and field support, and consolidation of multiple devices.
The company was able to save customers approximately $5,000 and 200 miles of driving per site visit.
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