IFS IoT Business Connector

IFS IoT Business Connector is designed to shorten the time from ideas to tangible benefits for IoT initiatives by providing an end-to-end architecture and the ability to turn IoT discoveries into actions. It has been designed to de-risk and accelerate IoT initiatives in areas such as predictive maintenance, service management, asset management and manufacturing.

It provides the ability to harness data gathered from products, assets and equipment to identify actionable observations that trigger user-defined, automated or semiautomated workflows in the IFS enterprise software. IFS IoT Business Connector provides plug-and-play connectivity with the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite for device communications and data analytics, alongside open APIs to connect other IoT platforms or specialised IoT discovery applications.

IFS IoT Business Connector bridges the gap between analysis of IoT data and using the output from such analyses to execute maintenance, service and manufacturing more efficiently. It adds the ability to turn an investment in IoT connectivity and data analytics into savings through process efficiencies, and into new revenues through service innovation.

The key components of IFS IoT Business Connector are: the IFS IoT Controller, which determines what actions to take when IoT data analysis reveals observations relevant to the business; the IFS IoT Gateway, which enables secure communications between the cloud-based discovery and analytics of IoT data, to the on-premise or cloud-based IFS products; and the IFS IoT Discovery Manager, providing additional management and monitoring capabilities when using the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite as the discovery platform.