Advantech DeviceOn/BI is an open, cloud-based industrial IoT platform, which provides a device management and business integration solution, designed in cooperation with Microsoft Azure for software infrastructure. The platform is ideal for real-time monitoring and operations management, and provides a smart asset management tool to help businesses with successful Digital Transformation. With Microsoft Azure, the DeviceOn/BI solution helps empower manufacturers to build on their own terms, seamlessly operate within the edge/cloud hybrid architecture, and trust in cloud computing.

There are several key trends today driving the move to cloud services with a push toward Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) solutions. Firstly, IIoT and Digital Transformation projects are in high demand with new use cases growing in every industry, such as big data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the need for OT/IT convergence within Digital Transformation projects continues to grow in manufacturing. EaaS solutions play a key role in successful convergence and act as the bridge between devices and the network; physical information is converted into digital data for transmission from the edge to the cloud, with the result being keen new business insights at all levels of the organization.

In our Advantech InnoTalk session, leaders from the Asia IoT Partner Ecosystem group of Microsoft Corporation and the Industrial IoT Product Group of Advantech, elaorate the rise of Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) solutions, overcoming common edge-to-cloud challenges, and the ins and outs of the DeviceOn/BI platform.