TrActivos® - Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Service
It is very common and usual that companies operations are dependent on the performance of physical assets, both mobile (e.g. tractors, trucks) and fixed (e.g. pumps, storage tanks). Many times over and in many instances these assets are nowhere to be found, accounted for and/or lack measurable productivity and usage metrics. In the high-tech industry this problem has been recognized and confronted for many years challenging the best minds around the world. To that, innovation in the development of sensing technologies and wireless communications has made it possible to align the various fragmented technologies for asset visibility under one common effort and marketplace competition, hence the birth of Machine-to-Machine (M2M).
Our M2M solution, TrActivos® consists of one common belief that physical assets can be viewed, managed, monitored and changed through the use of IP, ISO and various sets of engineering standards that form part of the M2M offering by various industry vendors. TrActivos® allows enterprises to monitor, measure, manage and control their applications remotely. This means that TrActivos® streamlines and facilitates interaction between companies and their remote assets within a total wireless environment. The components that make our TrActivos® solution possible consist of the following elements:
- Networks - Cellular, Public Switched Telephone Network, and Satellite. These networks transport data from collection sensor points to destinations like gateways, servers, databases, remote points of measurement
- Remote Sensors - Gather data relating to the status and position of remote assets
- Software-As-A-Services (SaaS) - TrActivos® is fully hosted in a SAS70 Type II Data Center that allows our customers to use various software instances of TrActivos®
TrActivos® consists of various elements that include but not limited to:
- Web Portal
- Databases
- Application Servers
- Gateways
- Storage
- Security Appliances
- Terminal Devices
- Sensor Technologies
- Licensed Mobile Networks
- Subscriber Identity Module (SIMs)
- Homogenization Country Specific
TrActivos® enables the transmission of the data to a central server for analysis and decision-making, to inform individuals or other devices for action. We developed TrActivos® to be rules-based processing that can facilitate the enterprise to create and enforce the rules for asset management, decision for action and total asset visibility for risk mitigation.
Hence, we provide intelligence for fixed and mobile assets that includes accessing data from disparate and convoluted electronic contraptions. With TrActivos® we can mine data from devices networks such as jBUS, Modbus, CANbus, jPOD as well as experts in communication with SMS (MO/MT), UDP/IP Sockets, TFTP, TCP/IP Sockets, FTP, SMTP (email), Telnet and DHCP (client or server). Thus, we use terminal devices that are flexible, are IP Code rated, Sensors that are adaptable for fixed and mobile assets to measure pressure, temperature, doors and windows, in a efficient and practical manner of communication.
M2M Landscape
The M2M industry is very large that has many different providers of the technology as well as focus areas. The M2M Landscape is comprised of various vertical industries and market segments. At Groupmab, we are focused on the Realtime Enterprise. For us the Real-Time Enterprise consists of two asset segments that are integral to running operations that include:
- Mobile Assets - Fleet of trucks, containers, filed power generators, construction equipment
- Fixed Assets - Storage of liquids and solids, security gates, cameras, doors and windows, cellular sites
With the proper use of our expertise and applied technologies that are relevant to these assets, we enable the set of Business Intelligence for the enterprise to prudently and effectively make business decisions that are suited for the reaching the business goals.
M2M Promise
We understand that before applying M2M technologies, we must first immerse ourselves in the business that our customers are in, and how the ecosystem is affected by change when applying the right M2M technologies. To this regard, that is why we immerse ourselves in the industries we have total expertise, and use our competence in understanding and having the success in the industries we serve. So, to that , here are a few areas we immerse ourselves in your business:
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - how is the business measure and what are the indicators for success
- Motivational Factors - how are individuals and groups motivated for change
- Load Factor - What are the financial impacts being measure, and what is the market driven financials that affect sales and market share
We are first business to understand the business, and then technologists who understand the business. With this type of discipline and focus, we can facilitate to deploy effective M2M solutions within your industry accompanied by best practices. Hence, metrics and benchmarks that can clearly demonstrate the greatest return on invested capital and can yield results such as:
- Increase efficiency
- Increase productivity
- Maximize fixed and mobile assets
- Increase visibility of assets reducing risks and perils inherent in local and global operations
- Intelligence across ERP systems
- Mitigate perils
- Predictive commerce