Sierra Wireless has announced the availability of its AirVantage Smart Automation, an extension to the company’s AirVantage cloud platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. AirVantage Smart Automation simplifies the connection to industrial equipment and the creation of embedded business logic without programming. Combined with pre-configured AirLink intelligent gateways, Sierra Wireless provides a complete end-to-end solution for industrial M2M applications.
This solution is claimed to enable equipment manufacturers and service providers to rapidly create and deploy new services and offerings for their customers, such as tiered monitoring and maintenance, demand response applications, and time or location-based equipment usage pricing models.
The Sierra Wireless AirVantage Platform is a cloud platform that facilitates comprehensive subscription, device and asset management through a remote M2M application. The Smart Automation extension integrates these capabilities with industrial control systems. AirVantage Smart Automation makes it easy to set up custom business logic to collect, sort, prioritise, send and store data without the need for programming. Existing backend systems can be integrated or new M2M applications can be implemented using standard web services APIs.
