Advancing data-driven innovations

Technology is evolving at lightning speed. The introduction of physical servers and storage units enabled the capture, storage and analysis of large quantities of data. The cloud paved the way for accumulating oceans of data. And today’s edge computing makes it possible to more efficiently utilize the most relevant data and derive actionable intelligence.

With technology constantly evolving, how do you keep up?

Meet some of the companies who’ve partnered with Microsoft to not only introduce transformative innovations but collaborate with Microsoft engineers and researchers to define next-generation technologies.

Thank you to our sponsorsWe appreciate our IoT in Action event sponsors who offer innovative solutions that unlock the transformative potential of the intelligent edge and intelligent cloud.

Leveraging Microsoft and Azure technologies, these solutions simplify the development of IoT apps and devices, streamline provisioning connected devices, increase situational awareness, improve collaboration, and much more.

This insert reflects confirmed partner sponsors as of March 4, 2019. Other partner sponsors may be onsite.

Vision AI developer kit Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan San Diego, CA, USA

The Vision AI Dev Kit is a collaboration between Microsoft, Qualcomm and Altek, which enables on-device inferencing for artificial intelligence (AI) on the edge. The solution becomes a reference platform for developers and manufacturers to create intelligent apps for IoT sensors and devices that leverage the Qualcomm Vision Intelligence Platform for on-device edge AI/compute. Additionally, the platform leverages Azure Machine Learning to easily create and customize advanced AI applications, which can be deployed using Azure IoT Edge.

https://www.visionaidevkit.com

Arcoflex Smart Agriculture and Automation SolutionsCentennial, CO

Arrow Arcoflex is a cost-effective, high performance IoT solution that streamlines remote monitoring and preventative maintenance of agriculture and industry applications, increasing productivity, and reducing risks. The solution can measure and control temperature and humidity, monitor electrical equipment and detect issues, record and manage soil moisture and other growing conditions, and provide real-time notifications for faults and alert states. Using Windows IoT 10 Core with Azure IoT Hub, Power BI, and Stream Analytics, Arcoflex can generate a range of dashboards and insights, including trends.

aka.ms/arrow-arcoflex

“Farm-to-store” Perishable Monitoring

Centennial, CO

The Arrow and EscaVox “farm-to-store” perishable monitoring solution links production data to retail data, creating a full end-to-end voice of the product, leading to reduced rejections and waste, improved food safety, increased confidence in decision making, and ultimately more consistent products. The low-cost, easy to use, and fully automated solution strengthens the cool chain integrity from farm-to-retail with grower certification (origin and/or food safety credential) and automated collection of non-farm data, such as quality score. Additionally, the solution automates analytics and provides an intuitive user interface.

https://www.arrow.com/en/iot

Power Monitoring and Smart Factory

Phoenix, AZ

The Avnet Power Monitoring and Smart Factory solution monitors voltage and current to analyze and improve decision-making regarding power consumption. It also gathers data from multiple sensors to monitor the operation of electrical equipment and industrial motors, and detect anomalies and performance issues in real-time. The solution can be integrated with the Avnet IoTConnect Platform to expand capabilities, including using machine learning and artificial intelligence to perform predictive analytics.

www.avnet.com

Solution Video: aka.ms/avnet-solutionvideo

Windows Collaboration Display

New York, NY

Avocor Windows Collaboration Displays enhance team work and collaboration by extending familiar Office 365 solutions to room-scale. A single-cable connection is used to seamlessly pair laptops and other mobile devices with a display to enable 4K video, touch, USB control, wired internet, and power. Fully compatible with Windows 10, the solution solves the frustrating and often time-consuming problem of connecting devices and people in meetings, whether a huddle space, conference room, or across the globe.

https://aka.ms/avocor

IoT Integration Platform

West Perth, Australia

CoreIoT helps businesses accelerate their IoT journey by solving each part of the IoT adoption puzzle. The multi-faceted solution leverages Azure for cloud, compute, data visualization, and IoT hub technologies. Key components help stakeholders kickstart innovations, integrate and ingest data from multiple operational devices and enterprise systems, and connect and collect data from devices, using curated sensors and gateway hardware. Their turnkey solutions – condition monitoring, asset tracking, workforce management, inventory management, temperature monitoring, and outdoor asset tracking – can be deployed within minutes to delivery immediate business value.

www.coreiot.com

Telstra Track and Monitor

Kurnell, New South Wales, and Melbourne Australia

Telstra Track & Monitor is an IoT asset tracking solution designed to help businesses track moving assets, reduce costs and improve the customer experience. Dicker Data are a leading technology distributor with over 35 years experience and are primed for the evolving IoT market in Australia.

The solution is built on the Azure platform and uses the Telstra IoT CAT M1 network - Australia’s largest low power wide area network with over 3 million square kilometres of coverage. The location of assets can be visualized via a web portal or an easily accessible API available on the Telstra developer marketplace.

Customers are always demanding better, faster, and cheaper services. Tracking data enable businesses to meet increasing demands to be more efficient managing large moving assets such as rail wagons, semi-trailers or machinery. The more visibility a business has means reduced delays and an enhanced customer experience – ultimately reducing costs.

aka.ms/dickerdata-track

Edge Computing with Limited Cloud Connectivity

Tempe, AZ

The Empired IoT solution enables “life out on the edge,” providing the backbone, analytics, and integration to drive intelligent insights and actions for enabling the IoT edge across the Microsoft platform. The solution leverages IoT Hub for data routing, IoT Edge for managing the compute close to the data source, and Stream Analytics for analyzing data in flight, and responding to business issues in real-time. Much broader than a single tool, the solutions solve the disparate data source problem created by limited cloud connectivity.

www.empired.com

Azure Sphere Appliance Panel Demo

Redmond, WA

Microsoft Azure Sphere provides protection from the edge to the cloud, starting with a secured, connected, crossover microcontroller unit (MCU) with built-in Microsoft security technology and connectivity. The Azure Sphere OS along with Azure Sphere Security Services further extends protection.

The Azure Sphere MCU produced by AVNET Silica integrates real-time processing capabilities with the ability to run a high-level operating system, enabling product manufacturers to create secured, internet-connected devices that can be updated, controlled, monitored, and maintained remotely. By embedding the MCU in a connected device, either alongside or in place of existing MCU(s), product manufacturers gain enhanced security, productivity, and opportunity.

A secured application environment, authenticated connections, and opt-in use of peripherals minimizes security risks due to spoofing, rogue software, denial of service attacks, and other malicious events.

Learn more about Azure Sphere: aka.ms/AzureSphere

Purchase an Azure Sphere development kit: aka.ms/sphere-devkit

Industrial IoT Edge Gateways

New Taipei City, Taiwan

Moxa offers Azure-ready gateways (UC-8112-ME-T) that leverage low-power Arm Cortex-A8 1 GHz processors and are built for industrial IoT environments. Applicable for high-volume monitoring, such as remote drilling equipment, the gateways feature industrial-grade fanless design and DIN-rail mounting. With long-term evolution (LTE) module installed, they support an operating temperature of -40 to 70°C. Pre-installed with the Azure IoT Edge run time, the gateways support Azure IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Database, Power BI, and other Azure IoT services.

www.moxa.com

IoT Strategy

Irvine, CA

Ingram Micro takes a holistic approach to IoT by focusing on solutions that address customers’ specific business problems and leverage Ingram Micro’s core competencies: Hardware fulfillment, mobility and the cloud. These solutions are designed to simplify the complexity of the cloud, whether a company is initially using infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or is experienced using Azure. Ingram Micro provides a range of services, including programs, such as Azure Accelerate, which delivers exclusive services, promotions, and offerings to achieve depth and scale in Azure consumption.

https://au.ingrammicro.com/

Safety Notification Platform Solution Accelerator

Tempe, AZ

The Insight Digital Innovation safety and alert notification system (Project Edison) improves users’ situational awareness, using IoT devices, and fosters collaboration and sharing via a centralized communication hub. The open source, highly-customizable platform can be used in a wide range of safety scenarios and includes a consumer app, which provide real-time information to administrators during crisis, and conversely, receive information and instructions.

https://www.insight.com/en_US/home.html

Download the code: https://github.com/litebulb/ProjectEdison

Oil & Gas Dynocard Solution Accelerator

Munich, Germany

Sucker pumps, used by oil and gas companies, work continuously, often in remote locations, using dynamometers (dyno) to determine pump performance and conditions. A company might have thousands of pumps, making it logistically difficult to individually inspect the records or dyno cards from each pump. The Insight Oil & Gas solution accelerator complements dyno cards by using IoT sensors and technology to detect potential catastrophic issues with sucker pumps, capture historical data about anomalies, and alert field technicians when needed. Additionally, it can be used for remote monitoring, such as drill bit optimization.

https://www.insight.com/en_US/home.html

Download the code: https://github.com/BlueMetal/iot-edge-dynocard

Manufacturing Efficiency Solution Accelerator

Tempe, AZ

Insight Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Optimization helps manufacturers standardize their operational environment, driving increased production efficiencies. The solution accelerator helps address the fundamental challenge of collecting data from disparate structures and sources by standardizing data to the industry-standard KPI measurement, OEE, and thereby, facilitating the effective measurement and comparison of outputs. The full stack reporting solution is built on Azure providing real-time operational management and monitoring.

aka.ms/insight-manufacturing

Platform for the “Business of Things”

Brisbane, Australia

The Reekoh integration platform seamlessly brings together IoT, data, and application programming interfaces (API) with existing business systems and processes. The vendor-agnostic, future-proof platform empowers enterprises with tools for reducing complexity, removing barriers and accelerating time-to-value in their IoT and data driven solutions. With over 150 plugins and an Open Plugin Framework, plus easy-to-use visual flow design tools to create data workflows, Reekoh’s agile platform simplifies the ingestion, transformation, enrichment, orchestration, and integration of data between IoT devices, open data sources, and business applications and systems. Plugins are available for IoT Hub, EventHub, Storage (Azure Blob Storage, Data Lake, Document DB, SQL and more), Dynamics 365, Cortana Intelligence Services, Azure Machine Leaning, PowerBI, Teams and OneDrive.

https://reekoh.com

AI Powered Robotic Arm

Sydney, Australia

Rhipe offers a solution framework that helps partners deploy industry-tailored integrated robotics that leverage artificial intelligence and are suitable for a broad array of industries, including manufacturing, retail, medicine, mining, and hospitality. The solution integrates collaborative robotics from OMRON, and is powered by Azure IoT Hub, supporting the use of Stream Analytics, Service Bus, Logic Apps, Azure Storage, Cognitive Services, and other workflow management and modern workplace apps for real-time data analysis and visualization.

www.rhipe.com

Asset Tracking Solution

Fremont, CA (Synnex) Santa Clara, CA (TFL)

TrackingforLess from Synnex takes traditional vehicle, trailer, and asset tracking to the next level by integrating any kind of GPS data with the power of the cloud. With real-time data about a fleet and the ability to track anything that moves, it can help customers streamline operations, improve service, and reduce costs. TrackingForLess makes it simple to add GPS and cellular tracking to any vehicle or asset to get real-time location tracking, theft detection, environmental monitoring, maintenance scheduling, remote diagnostics data, and a variety of other services.

aka.ms/synnex-tracking

IoT Digital Signage

Fremont, CA

The SYNNEX signage solution makes it easier and more cost effective to communicate with the visitors, employees, guests, and other audiences by customizing, managing, and publishing content from a single management console, hosted in Azure. The solution enables small, medium, and large organizations to move from traditional content-driven communications to high-impact IoT-enabled event driven communications with speed and agility. Content is pushed to simple plug-and-play edge devices on each display, eliminating the complexity and costs that limit traditional digital signage solutions.

www.synnexcorp.com/us/visualsolv

Smart Pharmaceutical Solution Accelerator

Bengaluru, India

The Wipro Smart Pharmaceutical Supply Chain solution accelerator is a cutting-edge IoT and blockchain platform which improves supply chain security, supports regulatory compliance, and reduces cold chain wastage by generating geospatial alerts in near real-time should there be a deviation in temperature or attempt to counterfeit. Bluetooth-enabled tags, placed on boxes of drugs, generate the data necessary to accurately track pharmaceuticals across the supply chain, improving security, and supporting regulatory compliance requirements. Pharmacists can easily track the condition of drugs and pinpoint issues via flashing red lights when a constraint, such as high or low temperature, has been detected.

aka.ms/wipro-supplychain

Digital Signage Solution Accelerator

Bengaluru, India

The Wipro digital signage solution accelerator reduces the cost of managing signage by providing a centralized portal to manage and publish to remote display devices (Windows 10 IoT Core and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise support) and create playlists of media, such as web pages, videos, photos, and HTML. The end-to-end automated process increases revenues by managing intelligent store operations through predictive analytics, using data acquired from customer engagements. The solution seamlessly integrates with Azure to store customized display content in multiple templates and formats with no additional server costs.

aka.ms/wipro-signage

Download the code: aka.ms/wipro-github

This insert reflects confirmed partner sponsors as of March 4, 2019. Other partner sponsors may be onsite.

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Continue exploring the potential of IoTIoT in Action events and industry conferences are an opportunity to network with global IT professionals and thought leaders to discuss evolving technologies, strategies and challenges, view cutting-edge demos, and collaborate on introducing breakthrough innovations.

In April, Microsoft will be at Hannover Messe (Hall 7/C-49) in Hannover, Germany. Based on the success of the IoT in Action event series, Microsoft and select partners will be hosting EMEA Solution Builder Roundtables April 2 – 4 in the Messe Congress Center.

The 90-minute roundtables will focus on: Windows 10 IoT: Learn about the IoT Advanced Analytics & Industrial Showcase along with cost-effective, industry-ready devices, and cloud-based device management and deployment

IoT Core: Discover a portal for OEMs to manage the intelligent edge, and an IoT framework for the intelligent edge and intelligent cloud

Azure IoT: Get best practices for using Azure IoT Edge, and MindSphere on Azure

Azure Sphere: Build highly-secured devices that provide security from the edge to the cloud, and the potential to reimagine your business

Project Farmbeats: Enable data-driven, digital farming, using low-cost sensors, drones, and vision and machine learning algorithms.

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