Keeping up with moving things in the IoT
Rajant provides kinetic mesh networks enabling a network that moves. In today’s traditional mesh networks, the wireless infrastructure stays in a constant location and the devices using the network move. In Rajant’s solution the network can also move.
Focusing on municipalities, oil and gas, transportation and mining, Rajant is working in locations that are potentially difficult to cover sufficiently with standard wireless networks. Rajant’s BreadCrumbs wireless network nodes can communicate with any Wi-Fi or Ethernet-connected device, and through the connection are said to deliver low-latency, high-throughput data, voice and video applications in a small form factor.
BT Global Services recently announced a partnership with Rajant to offer global solutions to enterprises interested in deploying “Internet of Things” functionality in locations that may not be easy to access with traditional wireless network solutions. By utilizing Rajant’s mesh networking functionality, data can be gathered from sensors, autonomous vehicles, industrial machinery, CCTV and VoIP systems, then transferred via the BT global network to the appropriate location worldwide for monitoring and analysis.
One of the key challenges with the implementation of IoT is that many “things” actually move. As the movement occurs the end points could transition through different levels of network coverage and ultimately create challenges where there is inconsistent data-gathering taking place. If the network was a mesh of these devices and also moved, there would almost never be a time when things weren’t connected. This solution not only enables more consistent connectivity, but a more consistent level of real-time data gathering.
The following video interview outlines how the two companies will work together in the partnership.
As more enterprises enable IoT strategies in a move to reduce costs and increase efficiency of their businesses, new challenges come into play related to reliable access of remote things and the ability to gather data in a regular fashion as mandated by each business’ individual strategies. A network that moves with the end points could be a possible solution to help increase the adoption of IoT in enterprise applications.
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Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along with ongoing trend analysis for RCR Wireless News.
