For carriers and businesses that utilize telecommunications
Cross-Industry Solutions
IoT service providing three key features: “Easy connection”, “Data gathering and visualization”
and “Solution for social issues” depending on your business.
Companies that do business worldwide are experiencing a growth in opportunities to create new business value by using IoT data collected from products operating in different geographic regions. Meanwhile, actually doing IoT-based business around the world requires very time-consuming and expensive preparation work for tasks such as examining local IoT connections, signing IoT connection agreements, building and operating data collection/storage systems, and handling legal compliance. Hitachi Global Data Integration is a global IoT service that Hitachi provides to enable customers to focus on core competence creation. The service provides a comprehensive lineup of support for the functions required to do IoT-based business around the world.
We provide a "connection service" for connecting and managing lines by comprehensively offering communication lines in the countries our customers are considering use, in cooperation with telecom providers. Conventionally, the use of communication lines for IoT use in countries around the world would require surveys and contracts with telecom providers in each country and region as well as the building of systems that support each telecom providers' connection interface (API*1), which is quite challenging in terms of man-hours and workload.
The "connection service" already has an API for telecom providers and quickly realizes centralized line control and management across national and regional borders. For example, the service reduces the load of line connection and management by enabling the opening, suspension, and communication status management of the SIM (subscriber identity module) lines of the products and equipment shipped overseas.
*1API: Application programming interface
We provide highly scalable system platform for data collection and storage as a cloud service that can flexibly accommodate a huge number of devices and constantly growing data volumes. The service uses Hitachi Application Framework/Event Driven Computing*2("HAF/EDC"), a framework capable of highly reliable and scalable distributed processing, to effectively adjust processing throughput when collecting and storing data in response to changes in the data volumes handled. Moreover, the "data collection and storage service" provides externally linked API to enable data linkage with various applications and in-house systems for various customers' visualizations and analyses.
*2HAF/EDC: Event driven system development infrastructure and application implementation infrastructure created with the aim of high-speed processing of large volumes of data in distributed environments.
The "data utilization solutions" provide highly demanded functions for data utilization including location tracking, operation monitoring, and alert management as standard. We support the creation and expansion of new business by providing system environments necessary for data utilization in the form of standard functions that include mapping the position information of products and equipment shipped overseas on map data, summarizing devices' operation status (pressure, temperature, etc.) by region in list or graph form, and supporting swift maintenance responses by detecting and alerting about irregularities.
