Get Early Access to Temboo’s New Kosmos Industrial IoT Platform

When most people think of the Internet of Things, they picture consumer products like smart light switches. But that’s just one piece of…

Cameron Coward
6 years agoInternet of Things

When most people think of the Internet of Things, they picture consumer products like smart light switches. But that’s just one piece of the market, and industrial IoT is where the real potential is. Consumer IoT devices provide convenience, but industrial IoT systems offer massive cost and time savings. Those savings are exactly what Temboo’s Kosmos industrial IoT system is designed for, and you can sign up for early access right now.

The benefits of integrating a robust IoT system in an industrial company are tremendous. By automating control, maintenance, and monitoring, businesses can dramatically reduce the time, and therefore money, spent on repetitive labor. At the same time, those tasks can be performed more efficiently and with greater precision. These are the same principles that drove the industrial revolution, industrial IoT just enhances them with modern technology, and Temboo wants Kosmos to be the most comprehensive solution available.

For a complete IoT system, you need a chain that starts with low-level microcontrollers that monitor and control your machines and sensors. Those microcontrollers then need a way to communicate with each other and a network exit point. Sensor data and machine control needs to be accessible both on-location and remotely. And, finally, the system needs to be capable of automation. Unlike most other solutions on the market, Kosmos is designed to handle every link in that chain.

While every industry has different needs and equipment, that chain applies to all of them. An industrial farm may need to optimize a robotic tractor, while a manufacturing company needs to automate a pallet-packing machine. Kosmos can handle those — and the needs of any industry — because it’s hardware agnostic. One machine may be controlled with an Arduino while the other relies on a TI MCU, and Kosmos can integrate them both into a single IoT network.

Similarly, those network connections and protocols are completely flexible. Proprietary IoT systems often force you to use a specific protocol, which reduces compatibility with your equipment. Kosmos works with a variety of popular protocols, so it can be integrated with whatever you’re already using. There is no need to retrofit your entire factory to adhere to a single protocol, just stick with what works best for you.

Kosmos then allows you to control and monitor those from anywhere in the world. You can see visualizations of the data being gathered by your sensors, update equipment remotely, control machines, and handle security. The Kosmos dashboard allows any authorized person to access all of that from whatever is useful — a tablet on the factory floor, a computer in a home office, or a smart phone when you’re out and about.

That can also be automated with Kosmos. There are, of course, alerts and simple “if-then” actions. If anything goes wrong, you can be notified so that the issue can be quickly addressed. And, you can chain events, like turning on the HVAC system at a particular temperature. But, Kosmos also uses machine learning to predict and handle more complex tasks. Imagine a system that could predict when a machine was going to be under-utilized, and that would automatically trigger a maintenance cycle during that downtime.

Kosmos can do all of that, and promises to be easier than any other industrial IoT system to implement. They’re offering early access now, so head over to their website to sign up.

Cameron Coward
Writer for Hackster News. Proud husband and dog dad. Maker and serial hobbyist.
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