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Industrial IoT – Collecting Data from Manufacturing Lines Within Minutes
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The Challenge
Blackbird, a company that provides solutions for manufacturers to digitalize their production lines, was facing challenges with their existing telecom provider. They were in need of a better connectivity provider that specializes in M2M communication, facilitates reliable and secure data collection, provides real-time data about device location and connectivity, is available globally, provides flexible IoT data plans, and offers mobile connectivity. The company was also looking for a technology that can be easily integrated into existing production lines and is reliable enough to allow customers to monitor critical business processes uninterrupted.
About The Customer
Blackbird is a company based in Denmark with a workforce of 11-50 employees. They provide solutions that allow manufacturers to digitalize their production lines, helping them become more efficient and competitive. Blackbird developed Factbird, an innovative IoT device that can be easily integrated into existing production lines. Factbird devices measure various sorts of data like the number of units used in a certain timeframe or the temperature of materials. This data enables real-time line efficiency analysis that helps to optimize production processes. Blackbird has deployed thousands of devices in production lines with customers in 16 countries and 4 continents.
The Solution
Blackbird partnered with EMnify, a global carrier that focuses on and understands the challenges of IoT Enterprises. EMnify offers real-time data in the Connectivity Management platform and its Rest-API is integrated into Blackbird's application, allowing Blackbird customers to see and blacklist networks. EMnify perfectly integrates Blackbird’s cloud infrastructure into their AWS environment and its dynamic Regional Internet Breakout (RIB) infrastructure enables data transfers while significantly reducing the ping time. EMnify also provides flexible traffic pooling capabilities which is cost effective.
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