Industrial IoT
PTC | September 11, 2023
Quasar has joined PTC to provide data solutions with high-performance to IoT customers.
Quasar’s capability to equip businesses across various sectors to enhance decision-making and gain a competitive edge effectively manages data storage costs.
PTC empowers businesses to distinguish their offerings, enhance operational efficiency, and boost workforce productivity.
Quasar, a prominent provider of high-performance time-series database solutions, both in the cloud and at the edge, has announced a strategic partnership with PTC, a global leader in industrial automation software and IoT technologies. This collaboration aims to deliver advanced data solutions tailored for industrial companies, leveraging Quasar's robust data management capabilities and PTC's industry-leading industrial connectivity platform, Kepware.
The partnership between Quasar and PTC has global implications, as IoT data management is a critical concern for industrial companies across various regions. It addresses the pressing need for industrial companies to efficiently manage and leverage their IoT data for better decision-making and operational improvements.
While, Quasar is distinguished by its unique database architecture and patented compression algorithm, empowering organizations to process and analyze extensive data sets in real-time, PTC enables companies to differentiate their products and services, improve operational excellence, and increase workforce productivity. This capability equips businesses across various sectors, including telecom, finance, manufacturing, and energy, to enhance decision-making and gain a competitive edge while effectively managing data storage costs. By combining Quasar's data expertise with PTC's industrial connectivity capabilities, businesses can harness IoT data's transformative potential.
The collaboration focuses on revolutionizing how businesses handle and utilize their IoT data. The integration facilitates more informed decision-making, enhances operational efficiency, and drives transformative business outcomes.
The joining hands of Quasar with PTC signifies a commitment to enhancing data solutions for industrial companies. By integrating high-performance time-series database technology with industrial connectivity capabilities, this collaboration aims to empower businesses to leverage IoT data effectively and drive meaningful outcomes in the industrial automation sector.
Key benefits of this collaboration include-
High-performance data ingestion and query capabilities, offered by Quasar's unique architecture, ensure lightning-fast access to time-series crucial data for real-time insights.
Integration with PTC's Kepware platform for seamless data connectivity, allowing customers to consolidate data from various industrial sources and IoT devices.
Quasar's dedication to scalability and reliability ensures efficient management of growing IoT data infrastructure for customers.
Edouard Alligand, the Founder and CEO of Quasar, expressed his sentiments regarding the partnership with PTC, a prominent player in the IoT domain. He remarked,
We are delighted to partner with PTC, a leader in the IoT space. This collaboration represents a significant step toward providing our customers with seamless connections to industrial automation data from various manufacturing IoT applications. Our goal is to empower businesses to harness the full potential of their IoT data and drive transformative outcomes.
[Source: Cision PR Newswire]
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Industrial IoT, Platforms, Security
Prnewswire | July 04, 2023
Telit Cinterion, a global leader in the Internet of Things (IoT), and Kontron AG (KTN:GR), a global supplier of smart IoT solutions and professional IT services, today jointly announced that they have entered into a binding agreement under which Telit Cinterion will sell its cellular automotive IoT product business to Kontron.
The intended transaction includes Telit Cinterion's complete portfolio of cellular automotive wireless communication modules, ranging from 4G LTE to 5G. The expected transaction reaffirms California-based Telit Cinterion's market position as the leading Western provider of cybersecure IoT solutions, and the company's growing reach in key industrial IoT segments and end markets including energy, telematics, e-health, broadband, and security & surveillance.
With approximately 4,500 employees across 21 countries, Kontron is a technology provider to top global brands. The company posted sales of EUR 1,342 million in 2022. The intended transaction will be submitted to the relevant workers' councils. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Kontron and Telit Cinterion customers and partners will continue to receive the outstanding supply, support, and service to which they have been accustomed. All relevant parties will receive updates throughout the transaction, upon closing and ensuing integration period.
About Telit Cinterion
Telit Cinterion is a global enabler of the intelligent edge providing complete solutions that reduce time to market and costs, delivering custom designed, ready for market connected devices in addition to maintaining the industry's broadest portfolio of enterprise-grade wireless communication and positioning modules, cellular MVNO connectivity plans and management services, edge-cloud software and data orchestration, and IoT and Industrial IoT platforms. As the largest western provider pioneering IoT innovation, Telit Cinterion delivers award-winning and highly secure IoT solutions, modules and services for the industry's top brands.
About Kontron
Kontron AG (www.kontron.com, ISIN AT0000A0E9W5, WKN A0X9EJ, KTN) is a leading IoT technology company. For more than 20 years, Kontron has been supporting companies from a wide range of industries to achieve their business goals with intelligent solutions. From automated industrial operations, smarter and safer transport to advanced communications, medical and energy solutions, the company delivers technologies that add value for its customers. Kontron is listed on the SDAX® of the German Stock Exchange and has around 4,500 employees with subsidiaries in more than 20 countries around the world.
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Infrastructure, Industrial IoT
PRnewswire | May 22, 2023
SparkFun launches the DataLogger IoT - 9DOF, an ESP32-based data logger that seamlessly transfers data to a microSD card or wirelessly to your preferred Internet of Things service. Its features include:
Auto-detection of over 50 Qwiic Sensors.
Built on the capabilities of an ESP32 Processor.
Provides log outputs in CSV or JSON formats.
Has wifi to enable logging to a variety of network IoT platforms (currently supported services include MQTT, Amazon AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, Mathworks ThingSpeak, and URL-HTTP).
"For over a decade, SparkFun has designed and built products aimed at simplifying the process of embedded device data logging, with the latest offerings delivering low-power, turnkey sensor connectivity to a set of SparkFun Qwiic boards." Says SparkFun CTO, Kirk Benell. "Our new SparkFun DataLogger IoT product builds on this capability by adding network connectivity to deliver a true IoT experience. Paired with over-the-air firmware updates, the capabilities of the DataLogger IoT enables a modern IoT sensor capability out of the box – no additional development required."
Glenn Samala, SparkFun CEO, also comments, "The 9DoF version of the SparkFun DataLogger IoT is the first in a line of plug-and-play logging equipment that we see as the next iteration of our data logger product line. We are proud to provide our users with a board capable of fully utilizing the cloud for their data storage and recording needs based on their preferences for the network IoT platform. As more Qwiic boards are added to the DataLogger IoT's automatic detection, we intend to build this product line to be a go-to data capture resource for any user regardless of their coding experience."
About SparkFun Electronics
Since 2003, SparkFun has been helping turn ideas into reality – whether you're creating a smart weather station, exploring the frontier of machine learning, or prototyping your first (or tenth) product, our open-source tools, documentation, and online tutorials make emerging technology easy to use, and the road to a finished project shorter.
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