AGT International has announced it will launch IoTA, a modular, open, cloud-based platform for IoT application developers that offers IoT-specific analytics, data management and visualization capabilities. IoTA powers a number of IoT offerings built by AGT, and by making the platform available to other developers, AGT will provide developers with IoT solutions that can help accelerate the adoption of IoT technology.
IoTA is available to selected developers now by invitation and planned for wider availability in the second half of 2015. The cloud-based platform provided through IoTA is built on five years of AGT experience in implementing complex solutions comprising a wide array of sensors, IoT devices and advanced analytics for traffic management, environmental monitoring, infrastructure management, energy monitoring, public safety and many other industry-specific projects.
IoT data has the potential to be more difficult to analyze than typical enterprise-generated big data because of factors related to the disparity of data sources, geographic distribution of endpoints, sensor “noise” and failures, and the resulting imperfections in the collection and streaming of the data that could render it unusable. AGT’s IoTA offers developers a set of components to help connect, manage, analyze, and visualize IoT data in real-time.
IoTA addresses this complexity by offering analytical components, which are aware of IoT data types and their challenges, and match analytical capabilities to specific data types and data contexts. Applications built on these analytics offer the end customer better predictions, optimized business processes and more efficient operations.
IoTA encapsulates capabilities in data management and analytics into modular components such as data input and processing, secure storage and access, sensor management, data fusion, activity recognition, location and motion analysis, anomaly detection, behavior analytics, event handling, optimization, simulation and what-if analysis and visualization. All of these are available through the cloud so developers can easily access the different modules and experiment with the technology.