Vodacom Group enters into an agreement to acquire majority stake in IoT.nxt
MEDIA STATEMENT 14 May 2019
Vodacom Group has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in IoT.nxt in a move that will significantly accelerate Vodacom’s Internet of Things (IoT) strategy and transform its dedicated IoT business unit. Vodacom has identified IoT as a key strategic growth area for the Group. This latest acquisition will enable Vodacom to operate across the full IoT value chain and develop best-in-class solutions for clients across a number of industry verticals.
IoT.nxt develops world-class technology and is an industry-leading end-to-end IoT solutions provider with operations in the USA, Europe and South Africa.
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub says: “In addition to accelerating Vodacom’s Internet of Things strategy, our investment in IoT.nxt brings a number of advantages to Vodacom’s existing IoT capability, including class-leading platform technology. For example, this will allow us to better orchestrate the information obtained from sensors and edge devices as well as enable us to further scale our IoT business across multiple verticals as we move up the value-chain. Vodacom will continue to seek strategic acquisition opportunities to drive ongoing investment in the IoT sector and to become the digitalisation partner of choice for enterprise clients and customers.”
IoT.nxt CEO Nico Steyn says: “This partnership is incredibly exciting for IoT.nxt. It allows us to combine the power of our technology and the considerable strength of Vodacom’s capabilities, footprint and brand. Vodacom has critically evaluated many platforms globally, and has had operational success in projects with us, so this partnership resulted from these wins. IoT.nxt delivers significant technical differentiation and allows Vodacom to leverage the technology across all industries, allowing for both scalability and rapid time-to-market. Vodacom’s investment will provide us with the freedom to expand our business vision while we build a class-leading product that will be sold globally, through multiple channels, including Vodacom’s competitors.”
IoT.nxt’s innovative edge technology and end-to-end platform is business transformative. The combination of its protocol agnostic information layer and its flexible architecture allows for rapid solution development and the realisation of benefits. Vodacom has deployed this technology in its base stations, which will result in significant energy savings.
Talent10 provided the funding for the establishment of IoT.nxt in late 2015 and invested a further R100m in 2017 for the opening of its European office in The Hague. Talent10 is a major current shareholder in the company. Talent10 Holdings CEO Wayne Fitzjohn says: “Co-founding IoT.nxt has proved to be one of our most significant decisions to date. It was clear within months that this IoT tech start-up had a world-leading solution. We made a further investment of R100 million in 2017 to allow the company to expand internationally. This transaction with Vodacom confirms our belief in the unique solutions which IoT.nxt develops and we are looking forward to an even more exciting journey ahead with the founders and our new partner, Vodacom. ”
The significant investment by Vodacom will allow IoT.nxt to further commercialise a number of its vertical solutions into off-the-shelf products while continuing its core development and innovation of the platform. IoT.nxt’s experienced management team will continue to run the company, working closely with Vodacom’s IoT business, which is led by Vodacom Business Chief Officer William Mzimba.
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IoT.nxt launches smart data center platform at Dell Tech World
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LAS VEGAS, 1 May 2019. Innovator in Internet of Things (IoT) technology, IoT.nxt launched its smart data center platform at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas today which leverages energy management, data center automation and active storage to achieve a digitalized, smart ecosystem.
“This improves energy asset performance, implements a self-healing system design and compresses data for active usage. Smart monitoring and collection of actionable data from the edge leverages the IoT.nxt Raptor™ edge device to command systems. This ensures that previously unpredictable instances are avoided and achieves self-rectification,” says Jason Bradlee, COO Americas, at IoT.nxt.
“The three primary components of our smart data center solution are facility level energy management, data centre infrastructure automation and enhanced active storage. This can achieve 20 – 35% energy cost reduction, between 20 and 25% efficiency improvement in data center automation and 25 to 40% cost reduction of active storage,” Bradlee says.
This is IoT.nxt’s first participation at Dell Technologies World following the launch of its USA operations in October last year and is its second collaboration with Dell, after the Raptor™ for Dell IoT in a box solution launched in Johannesburg, South Africa in March 2018. RaptorforDell
The Smart Data Center solution is being scheduled for rollout globally in Dell Solution Centres. The targeted centres are located in the USA, Ireland, Dubai, and Singapore. These deployments anticipated to begin in summer 2019 provide an opportunity for Dell to realize the savings afforded by the solution while also serving as a live demo for its sales staff and client base.
“IoT.nxt and Dell Technologies are confident that this is what the data centre of the future will look like. The solution allows companies to have rule-based filtering which removes false positive alerts with focus and timely remediation of issues. It is self-learning with AI analytics, which allows event correlation of infrastructure events, with various business events and accurate prediction of future failures as well as root cause analysis,” Bradlee added.
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About IoT.nxt
IoT.nxt’s unique technology stack bridges the gap between all protocols in the industrial ecosystem, creating a single integration/translation point. Its patented RaptorTM gateway allows organisations to retrofit all existing legacy systems with no rip and replace. A powerful data abstraction model further translates anything and everything from the edge, supporting a true subscription based big data model. IoT.nxt is the enterprise solution category winner and overall winner of the MTN Business IoT Award 2017 in South Africa. IoT.nxt opened its European office in The Hague, The Netherlands in 2017 and set up US operations in October 2018.
IoT.nxt announced as a HPE OEM solutions partner
MEDIA STATEMENT 29 April 2019
IoT.nxt and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a strategic OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) partnership that will combine the HPE technology with IoT.nxt’s software Raptor™ edge device to run on HPE’s Edgeline gateways.
IoT.nxt has selected to utilise this partnership in the healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, security and surveillance as well as telecommunications verticals.
“The market for IoT enterprise software is growing very fast and through this partnership we will provide new solutions for customers globally,” says Joe Bester, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Europe and UK operations at IoT.nxt. “The ability to integrate the capability of the Raptor™ on HPE server platforms allows us to reach new markets and expand our global footprint,” Bester says.
Chris Hoogeveen from HPE Netherlands says: “IoT.nxt offers their customers a unique solution in creating a digital overview of their organization. The innovative compute-at-the-edge Edgeline-series of HPE provide an underlay to this solution. Together we are offering an end-to-end solution for our joint customers to benefit from, addressing faster intelligent decision making by giving better insights from the data collected without disruption of business operations.”
The HPE Partner Ready Program is a global partner program that rewards and supports Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s channel alliances.
HPE Partner Ready was launched in conjunction with the HP Partner First Program in 2015, following Hewlett Packard’s companywide split. The HP split resulted in two independent companies: HPE, which focuses on the enterprise products and services, and HP Inc., focusing on PC and printer technology.
Through Partner Ready, channel partners can sell and wrap services around HPE server, data centre, storage, software and converged infrastructure offerings, in addition to networking products from Aruba Networks and hybrid IT services via HPE Pointnext.
“As adoption of IoT technology accelerates, companies demand rapid deployment and more importantly, want to achieve real results and return on investment in a short time. This partnership, like the many others we have entered into in the past year, will ensure that we achieve exactly that,” Bester says.
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About IoT.nxt
IoT.nxt’s unique technology stack bridges the gap between all protocols in the industrial ecosystem, creating a single integration/translation point. Its patented RaptorTM gateway allows organisations to retrofit all existing legacy systems with no rip and replace. A powerful data abstraction model further translates anything and everything from the edge, supporting a true subscription based big data model. IoT.nxt is the enterprise solution category winner and overall winner of the MTN Business IoT Award 2017 in South Africa. IoT.nxt opened its European office in The Hague, The Netherlands in 2017 and set up US operations in October 2018.
IoT.nxt joins Fujitsu to showcase RunMyProcess integration at Hannover Messe
MEDIA STATEMENT 28 March 2019
Munich, March 28, 2019 – Fujitsu RunMyProcess is enabling enterprises to extract more value than ever before from data captured by their IoT devices through a new partnership with IoT.nxt.
The Fujitsu RunMyProcess high-productivity application Platform-as-a-Service (hpaPaaS) integrates IoT data, captured and filtered by the IoT.nxt cloud, into a wide range of enterprise applications. This valuable data, gathered even from analog devices or those with non-standard protocols, is instantly available to deliver insights to users worldwide, and to unlock sustainable efficiencies by streamlining and automating new processes.
For enterprises looking to leverage IoT information collected from a range of devices – from CCTV cameras to machinery sensors – filtering vast amounts of data to find truly meaningful elements is a major challenge. IoT.nxt Raptor software-enabled gateway and edge solutions address this challenge by acquiring raw data from diverse IoT and edge devices, normalizing and aggregating this before sending to the cloud for visualization and using it to build a digital overview of an entire organization, its technologies, equipment and processes. Businesses can drill down to generate insights, for example by searching by department or process, and can automate processes to respond immediately when triggered by defined changes in machines or operational behaviors.
The RunMyProcess/IoT.nxt integration will be showcased at Hannover Messe Industrie (BITKOM Digital Factory area in Hall 6, Booth 30), taking place from April 1-5. Visitors can witness large amounts of manufacturing sensor data being captured by the IoT.nxt Raptor™ and sent to the cloud, converted into visual representations and dashboards, then shared seamlessly with a preventative maintenance application via RunMyProcess. Any signs that a machine is not functioning at optimal levels will trigger a service request via ServiceNow, in addition to raising a stock availability enquiry via an SAP system.
Fujitsu RunMyProcess is a native cloud platform that allows organizations to quickly and securely build, test, deploy and scale device-independent applications that connect digital business processes across cloud, on-premises and mobile environments. With RunMyProcess, organizations can model and streamline even the most complex business processes while also integrating existing systems and services – whether cloud services like Office 365 or on-premises solutions such as SAP – with smartphones, tablets, PCs, wearable technology and other mobile devices. As a result, users enjoy a seamless experience – anywhere, anytime. The platform’s pre-built connectors allow customers to develop connected applications faster, deploying them within days rather than months, as well as quickly scaling to thousands of users.
Vic Herring, Head of Global Sales and Marketing at Fujitsu RunMyProcess comments: “Fujitsu RunMyProcess makes it possible to quickly and securely build connected applications that extend enterprise systems to all the people, clouds and devices of the digital world. Through our partnership with IoT.nxt, we are able to help recruit the army of IoT devices that every business owns, to be seamlessly connected to any enterprise workflow. The potential value that this technology partnership can bring by unlocking businesses’ IoT is huge.”
Nico Steyn, CEO of IoT.nxt adds: “IoT.nxt’s edge, core and cloud services take outputs from the typical legacy IoT equipment and their latest smart sensors that most enterprises deploy in combination, and use these to deliver a clear overview of what’s happening in every part of the business, without disrupting operations. Through our partnership with Fujitsu RunMyProcess, companies are able to take these insights to a whole new level – by seamlessly connecting them to any other business function and making them available to everyone in the organization. We’re essentially delivering new business value by transforming smart businesses into intelligent businesses.”
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About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 140,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.1 trillion yen (US $39 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018. For more information, please see http://www.fujitsu.com.
About Fujitsu EMEIA
Fujitsu promotes a Human Centric Intelligent Society, in which innovation is driven by the integration of people, information and infrastructure. In the Europe, Middle East, India and Africa region (EMEIA), our 27,000-strong workforce is committed to Digital Co-creation, blending business expertise with digital technology and creating new value with ecosystem partners and customers. We enable our customers to digitally transform with connected technology services, focused on Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Cloud – all underpinned by Security. For more information, please visit http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/about/
About IoT.nxt
IoT.nxt’s IoT platform is a digital transformation enabler making the Internet of Things a reality. IoT.nxt unlocks exponential business value by harnessing the power of system and device interoperability. Their unique technology stack bridges the gap between all protocols in the industrial ecosystem, creating a single integration/translation point. Its patented RaptorTM gateway allows organisations to retrofit all existing legacy systems with no rip and replace. A powerful data abstraction model further translates anything and everything from the edge, supporting a true subscription based big data model. IoT.nxt opened its European office in The Hague in 2017 and set operations in the USA in Dallas, Texas in 2018.
All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Information provided in this press release is accurate at time of publication and is subject to change without advance notice.
IoT.nxt adds Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform status
MEDIA STATEMENT
13 December 2018
South African innovators in Internet of Things technology, IoT.nxt, added Microsoft Gold Partner status for Cloud Platform to its competencies this month, its second such competency after it was recognised as a Gold Partner for Data Platform in 2017.
“According to Gartner the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.3% in 2019 to total $206.2 billion, up from $175.8 billion in 2018. Being a Microsoft Gold Partner for Data Platform is testament to the commitment of our team as they are required to pass stringent assessments,” says CEO, Nico Steyn.
“Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have a close working relationship with Microsoft. Achieving this status recognizes our success in the marketplace,” Steyn added.
“Being ranked as a Gold Partner provides us with access to a range of support services and a knowledge base at Microsoft as well as exceptional training opportunities, which will ultimately be to the benefit of our customers. Furthermore, as our company has expanded beyond South Africa this further Gold Partner status achieved will help us drive our global growth plans,” Steyn says.
“Three additional team members have added cloud-based qualifications and became Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs), enhancing our knowledge of MS Azure cloud. IoT.nxt now has twelve MCPs in the team and we will continue to build our Microsoft knowledge base,” Steyn says.
“Technology, and IoT technology and strategies specifically, are advancing at a rapid pace. This partnership will assist us in staying up to date with technology capabilities required from us by customers. We believe IoT is not about technology but about business strategy and approach all our customer relationships from this point of view. Being a Microsoft Gold Partner gives companies we engage with assurance that we are committed to the highest level of excellence and professionalism, with the backing of Microsoft,” he added.
IoT.nxt opened its first international office in The Hague in The Netherlands last year and set up operations in the USA for a multi-million-dollar project at public schools in September.
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IoT.nxt achieves level 1 B-BBEE status
MEDIA STATEMENT
4 June 2018
Innovator in IoT technology, Pretoria-based IoT.nxt, achieved level 1 B-BBEE status, confirming the company’s commitment to make a meaningful contribution to the advancement of the South African economy through innovation using 4th Industrial Revolution technology.
“President Ramaphosa mentioned the 4th Industrial Revolution in his first State of the Nation address as a key focus area for the future and we are proud of our achievements in this field. Embracing new technologies can make a marked difference to economic development. Achieving level 1 B-BBEE status is part of our journey to be a participant and driver of such growth through a strategy of inclusion and development,” says IoT.nxt CEO, Nico Steyn.
“IoT.nxt has achieved strong growth since its early days as a start-up at the start of 2016. The digital landscape is changing at a rapid pace, which requires forward-thinking and innovation. There still exists and outdated perception that South African companies are lagging behind global companies to drive digital transformation and adopt new strategies through using new technology. Our company and many other successful local companies have disproved this thinking,” Steyn says.
To achieve level 1 B-BBEE status the company scored very well on the required elements of skills development and enterprise and supplier development, in addition to its scores for ownership and management control.
“Skills transfer is very important for the development of any company but also especially important as a driver of economic growth. We have not only created almost 100 jobs in technology in the two years since the company was launched, we also introduced an internship programme to develop the innovators of the future,” Steyn says.
IoT.nxt is the winner of the 2017 MTN Business IoT Award, a Microsoft Gold Partner for Data Platform and was selected as one of six aspiring innovators in SA ahead of the 2016 Gartner ITXpo and Symposium hosted in Cape Town. The company opened the office in The Hague in September last year and is currently exploring expansion to the USA.
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Rapid digitisation now a reality
26 March 2018
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A strategic partnership between South African innovator in Internet of Things (IoT) technology, IoT.nxt, and global technology and computing hardware giant Dell will allow companies to rapidly digitise their business operations and make IoT solutions a reality.
“IoT.nxt’s intelligent edge IoT gateway, the Raptor™, has been combined with Dell Gateway technology and through this will enable rapid digital transformation. We call it ‘IoT in a box’ and it provides an off the shelf solution suitable for any company in any industry. With this solution companies can quickly see a return on investment and achieve digital scalability. It will allow them to fast forward unlocking efficiencies and drive earnings,” says IoT.nxt CEO Nico Steyn.
According to Ben Vernooij, IoT and Embedded Computing Solutions Lead for Dell EMC, Dell has developed partnerships to help customers rapidly implement IoT solutions, which is exactly what the Dell Raptor™ will deliver. “Customers can now speed up their IoT projects and make sense of the volumes of data produced at the edge,” he says.
This partnership combines the superior, robust Dell engineering with IoT.nxt’s world-leading innovation in IoT technology – known for its exceptional interoperability features – and is expected to become the new standard at the edge.
“This Raptor™ in a box solution gives companies the ability to scale quickly as the Dell Raptor™ is already configured to be rolled out, yet comes with the support of Dell’s global network which offers warranties and superior service,” Steyn adds.
The association with the trusted international Dell brand is likely to drive rapid adoption as companies know that their implementation will be supported by the vast and established Dell support offering.
The ‘IoT in a box’ offering will be distributed by Axiz, an industry leading value added distribution business that serves eight countries in Southern and East Africa. “This is an innovative offering for industry and we expect strong demand in our distribution networks,” says Axiz Executive Terence Barter.
IoT.nxt is the winner of the 2017 MTN Business IoT Award, a Microsoft Gold Partner for Data Platform and was selected as one of six aspiring innovators in SA ahead of the 2016 Gartner ITXpo and Symposium hosted in Cape Town. The company opened the office in The Hague in September last year and executives explored expansion to the USA last year; expected to go ahead in the second half of this year.
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IoT.nxt secures partnership with listed Dutch group
28 February 2018
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South African innovator in Internet of Things (IoT) technology and solutions, IoT.nxt, has entered into a partnership with listed Dutch company ICT Group N.V. as part of its ongoing expansion into Europe as demand for IoT applications and digitization grows in this vast market.
“We have engaged different companies since opening our first office outside South Africa in The Hague last year, seeking appropriate partners to help drive our entry into Europe. ICT Group is ranked in 5th place in the top 15 listed ICT companies in the Computable 100 and has reached 8th place in the top 15 ICT service providers in The Netherlands. IoT.nxt’s hardware and software solutions in combination with ICT’s domain expertise in different industry verticals as well as the expert knowledge of Cloud, Machine Learning, BI and IoT, will enable us – through this partnership – to completely shape the digital transformation journey of customers,” says IoT.nxt CEO, Nico Steyn.
Joe Bester, head of IoT.nxt’s Dutch office, says the ICT Group is an ideal partner as they are leaders in their field of expertise and by partnering with them we can drive business value for any company in any industry. “Digital transformation is now a business imperative and our companies will jointly assist businesses to embark on and fast-track that process. We believe our innovation, especially around interoperability and edge intelligence, will enhance their offering and deliver fast results for customers,” Bester says.
According to Jos Bleje, ICT Group CEO, IoT.nxt’s technology agnostic platform offers horizontal integration of ‘islands’ of digitization with an unprecedented ROI. “By leveraging all existing devices and infrastructure into one single platform, visibility and new insights are provided that will open doors for new business models and (strategic) services,” says Bleje.
Frank Snijders, Business Development Executive at ICT Group notes that the partnership will offer Business grade IoT solutions for ICT’s customers’ Digital Transformation journey. “For many years several sectors have been struggling with unstructured and disparate data coming from many types of assets. With this partnership, our customers can now be supported through one interconnected, interoperable ecosystem, transforming data into actionable information and business ROI.”
IoT.nxt focuses on delivering innovative software and hardware solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT.nxt has developed an open platform framework that is used for rapid software development, integration and deployment in the Internet of Things realm. This world leading framework that makes the efficiencies, cost savings and increased revenue from IoT a reality for businesses. The major strength of the IoT.nxt framework is that the solution is technology agnostic, which overcomes the challenge of connecting any and all devices or systems. This enables companies to deploy best of breed technologies (hardware/sensors/subsystems) but at the same time also achieve interoperability and interconnectivity between all the currently deployed systems and devices from the edge to the cloud. The IoT.nxt platform allows rapid deployment and businesses to action an Internet of Things strategy with little or no disruption to current operations.
IoT.nxt is the winner of the 2017 MTN Business IoT Award, a Microsoft Gold Partner for Data Platform and was selected as one of six aspiring innovators in SA ahead of the 2016 Gartner ITXpo and Symposium hosted in Cape Town. The company opened the office in The Hague in September last year and apart from the partnership with ICT Group, are busy with finalising partnerships with a host of other companies.
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Efficiencies delivered with new technology can protect mining jobs
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For immediate publication
29 January 2018
The new technologies unfolding in the 4th industrial revolution can drive the advancement of one of the oldest industries in South Africa – mining – and make a critical contribution to improved efficiency which, in turn, will protect jobs in this very labour intensive sector.
“Using an IoT technology platform provides mines with an interoperable data platform that can use legacy and non-legacy equipment to drive systems efficiency. This leads to the improved overall efficiency of a mine, reducing operational costs, increasing operating margins and profitability -ultimately protecting jobs and the lifespan of a mining operation,” says Eric Croeser, IoT.nxt Director of Partnerships: Mining.
IoT.nxt is partnering with global consulting powerhouse Deloitte and in association with enterprise resource planning company MineRP to introduce its strategies and innovative technologies for the mining industry at the African Mining Indaba, the world’s biggest annual mining business event, to be hosted in Cape Town from 5 February 2018.
“Digitalisation is one of the key themes of the 2018 Mining Indaba as the industry looks at new and innovative ways to improve its operations and ultimately profitability. Despite massive job losses in 2017 the mining industry remains a large employer in SA and continues to make a notable contribution to GDP,” Croeser says.
IoT.nxt and Deloitte will set up a live mining operation at Deloitte’s Greenhouse in Cape Town during the Indaba to provide actual demonstrations of how IoT technology is implemented across an entire mine. “A shift manager manages four inputs – people, materials, work areas and machines. Previously responses to changes in any of these four key elements were reactive. Using IoT strategies and solutions makes it possible to be pro-active and assess and adapt as situations change. This makes the entire operation more efficient and mine management have information and data available in real time. This shortens the timing of data aggregation and data orchestration,” says Croeser.
A concern for mining companies – and most other industries considering the introduction of new technology – is whether existing, legacy systems and machines can be integrated into a new platform. “IoT.nxt’s innovation has made interoperability possible which means it is not necessary to replace older technology, delivering significant business value,” Croeser added.
“Many mines in SA are some of the oldest in the world and have particular challenges as many operate deep underground. Not only will the use of new technology make even the older mines more efficient it will also improve safety, which remains a major concern,” he says.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: IoT.nxt’s unique technology stack bridges the gap between all protocols in the industrial ecosystem, creating a single integration/translation point. Its patented RaptorTM gateway allows organisations to retrofit all existing legacy systems with no rip and replace. A powerful data abstraction model further translates anything and everything from the edge, supporting a true subscription based big data model. IoT.nxt is the enterprise solution category winner and overall winner of the MTN Business IoT Award 2017.
Deloitte Greenhouses are designed to bring Deloitte and client teams together to accelerate insight-rich decision making and deliver faster, better outcomes to wicked challenges and opportunities. The Greenhouse experience combines a specially designed physical environment with creative facilitation tools and techniques and leading edge technologies to help companies function in a rapidly changing economic environment.
Interoperability at the edge not a challenge says SA IoT innovator
MEDIA STATEMENT
28 November 2017
Overcoming the hurdle of retrofitting into existing infrastructure and creating system and device interoperability at the edge is a key differentiator that has contributed significantly to the strong growth of the past two years of South African innovator in Internet of Things technology and strategy, IoT.nxt.
This full end-to-end IoT stack innovation combined with IoT.nxt’s unique capabilities Edge software stack and device the Raptor™ will be showcased when the company exhibits at the IoT Tech Expo North America, which starts on 29 November 2017 in Santa Clara, California.
US based technology news website, Light Reading, noted in a report following the Mobile Edge Computing Congress hosted in Berlin in September, that interoperability at the edge remains a concern for many companies. According to the website’s article the proliferation of groups tackling the edge-computing challenge has exacerbated concern about fragmentation and the risk that incompatible technologies and techniques will begin to appear.
“We believe that the edge will rise to the same prominence as the cloud in the months ahead. Data coming from the edge will solve many challenges so many companies have struggled to overcome. We have also built a custom, fully integrated stack from the edge to the cloud and back; which we believe is currently unique in global IoT development. Talking our innovation to a massive trade show and conference in the USA is a big step forward in our committed plan to expand IoT.nxt to that market, following successful expansion in Europe earlier this year,” says Gareth Rees, Director Global Partnerships at IoT.nxt and team leader for the company’s participation at IoT Tech Expo.
IoT.nxt’s participation at this global event was made possible after the company was crowned the overall winner at the 2017 MTN Business IoT Award event hosted in Sandton earlier this year. As part of the prizes awarded, IoT.nxt was afforded the opportunity to present its technology at an international IoT event.
The North American Expo is part of the world’s largest IoT event series and runs with the 2017 Blockchain Expo and the 2017 AI Expo North America. Speakers include luminaries like Lionel Chocron, Vice President Industry and IoT solutions at Oracle, Maciej Kranz, Vice President Strategic Innovation at Cisco, as well as experts from global giants like Shell, Toyota, Visa, Mastercard, ON Semiconductor and many more.
Rees will be joined by Bertus Jacobs CTO, Rudi du Toit head of research and development for the Raptor™ and Michiel du Toit, head of the IoT.nxt platform.
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