Turnkey IoT Solutions

Impact42 has the proven experience to help organizations harness the incredible potential of IoT using the Impact42 DESIGN, BUILD, DEPLOY, OPERATE or TRANSFER approach.

The astounding growth of IoT has changed the way businesses, government agencies and communities are monitoring and managing high-value assets, improving processes, increasing efficiency, managing costs, making better more informed decisions, increasing safety and enhancing customer experience.

[view our “Hybrid Approach to IoT Digital Transformation” presentation]

impact42 Secure 2-way-IoT Gateway Architecture

We build “Inteligence at the Edge” systems and solutions to manage and control Edge Devices connected to Intelligent Gateways with Back-end Applications that enable trusted and secure control, analytics and prediction. 

[view our “Intelligence” presentation]

impact42 Solution

impact42 System Elements

  • EDGE DEVICE MODULE™ – (EDM) system on a board compatible with most off-the-shelf peripheral sensors and controllers – enabling rapid design of new low-power devices or retrofit of existing assets.
  • DEVICE OS – (eDOS™) lightweight and efficient operating system that brings proven reliability, fault-tolerance, security and power efficiency of the IoT Platform to any device in a safe, sandboxed virtual machine environment.
  • GATEWAY/NETWORK – proprietary & open device/network optimized for low-power low-latency, encrypted, bi-directional communication of wireless or wired devices providing safe over-the-air upgrades, granular configuration management, anomaly detection, etc.
  • ENGINE – Scalable, secure, cloud-based platform that utilizes machine-learning and digital twin technologies to manage devices and business logic – accessible via web or comprehensive API libraries.
  • TOOLCHAIN – comprehensive set of software and hardware development and management tools, development kits, APIs, Function Blocks, Smart Objects, Device Drivers and algorithms, machine learning and dashboards.
  • Proven Vertical Solutions – applications designed and developed to address specific use cases and value creation within an industry or market segment.

impact42 Secure 2-way-IoT Edge & Gateway Devices

[view the Edge Device Module and Edge Device Module OS Features page]

Gateway/Network

[view the Gateway/Network Features page]

Engine

  • Highly scalable and elastic cloud-based platform with a distributed stream processing core
  • Highly concurrent, parallel and distributed core
  • Public or Private Cloud Designed for hosting flexibility it can be provisioned on any modern public or private cloud platform , such as Amazon AWS, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack etc.
  • Elastic Engine grows or shrinks with the needs of your application– expanding capacity for hourly, daily, and seasonal peeks and shrinking during off periods.
  • Horizontally Scalable Stream Processing and Data Storage Uses a distributed, scalable real-time stream processing engine and work load optimized data storage layer to guarantee high availability and low latency.
  • Device Lifecycle Management Ensures security, audibility, operational ease, low maintenance overhead and a high quality of service. Digital Twin monitors lifecycle and events and parameters for easy visibility.
  • On-the-fly firmware compilation and over-the-air delivery pipeline
  • Encryption, Access Management and Security Auditing Fully encrypted message flow, authorization, user management, & role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication with detailed, historical logs for high audit-ability.
  • Highly secure/tightly integrated device life-cycle management with a powerful Asset Knowledge Graph, Key Management, Access Management and Security Auditing – carefully managed key lifecycle, revocable leased access, audit logs and anomaly detection
  • Powerful, programmatically provisioned data analytics and machine learning infrastructure that is built to be leveraged by the asset digital twins
  • Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics A scalable analytics and insights engine with machine leaning algorithms – delivering not just numbers, but meaningful and actionable insights.
  • Customizable, machine-learning [AI] empowered, digital twins with streaming decision pipelines to integrate physical devices into enterprise business processes
  • Enterprise Integration Designed to easily integrate with other systems using our set of APIs and Libraries.
  • Extensible Customizable to support other applications of low-power, low data-rate wireless devices like Smart Lighting, Smart Water and Sewage, HVAC control, perimeter security, building controls, etc.
  • Authentication and Authorization – device identity, authentication and encryption at all points of connection, so that data is never exchanged between system elements and without proven identity.
  • Support for impact42 Network as well as other device networks (MQTT, CoAp, etc.)
  • Comprehensive Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and a library of pluggable enterprise integration modules

TOOLCHAIN

  • Developer kit including hardware and PaaS functions
  • Full API library to easily integrate with existing systems
  • Flexible, Multi-protocol, Enterprise Data Integration
  • Integrated AI and ML engine to provide analyzed, insightful information, not just raw data
  • IDE to quickly create purpose-built applications
  • Workflow engine to rapidly turn new and interesting data from the sensor network into new business logic and actionable reports, alerts, etc
  • Full suite of mobile tools that can be customized to meet specific needs
  • Library of device drivers for quick integration of EDMTM to new hardware
  • Library of function blocks for rapid configuration of devices and processes

Proven Vertical Solutions

impact42 Rapid Development & Deployment

With our proven toolkit we work with our clients to rapidly prototype by connecting new and legacy devices that need to be monitored or controlled. We really quickly build intelligent systems that monitor activity, provide command and control and then scale it up working with our clients to meet their needs.

Impact42 is a premier business strategy, project management, software development and organizational development solutions firm with more than three decades of experience leading large-scale software and strategic design projects.

People use products, processes, software, services, and ideas to get things (jobs) done. The Impact42 DESIGN, BUILD, OPERATE or TRANSFER approach starts with a process of Mapping User Journeys/Job Mapping using the JTBD (Job-To-Be-Done) Framework, that enables an Agile approach to defining and then designing solutions leading to transformational innovation.

[view our “Human-centered Design Thinking Software Development” presentation]

We deliver value to our clients by developing and implementing innovative holistic strategies that capitalize on the opportunities presented by process, technology and human resource changes. We use our strength in Human Capital Management, Software Development, Systems Management and Project Management to maximize the effectiveness of, and ROI for, organizational programs, process and technology-related changes.

We help our clients: build their value quickly; develop flexible, sustainable strategies; implement these strategies and support them with best-in-class technology solutions through human-centered UX research and design; Web-based Systems Development; Information Systems Architecture, Implementations, and Operations.