IOTech and Building System Integrators collaborate to increase efficiencies in HVAC, BAS and EMS systems

Edinburgh, UK. 27 October, 2021 – IOTech, the edge software company, is collaborating with Building System Integrators, which specialises in the design, development and commissioning of building automation solutions, to increase the control and management capabilities for systems including HVAC, BAS and EMS.

The organisations are integrating IOTech’s Edge Xpert edge platform with BSI’s siteView Building Management and Automation Solution. IOTech will also supply Edge Builder, its end-to-end management solution for edge systems.

The work of the partnership will result in advanced equipment connectivity, edge processing and edge management capabilities for businesses and enterprises such as mission critical facilities, commercial office buildings, distribution centres, financial institutions, and healthcare and educational campuses.

“By leveraging IOTech’s Edge Xpert IoT Platform, siteView can share operational data with users to provide much greater visibility into their HVAC, BAS and EMS systems,” says, Michael Ebarb, president, BSI. “This leads to better control over the equipment in a building and opens the door to new business model opportunities, including more proactive services.”

Keith Steele

BSI develops systems from conventional building automation and energy management to specific control strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of their users’ facilities and scaling their services for customers of all sizes. The company provides data centre infrastructure management tools to allow IT professionals to manage assets with greater ease and awareness in a variety of building environments.

IOTech’s Edge Xpert is a commercial and fully supported version of EdgeX Foundry, the ecosystem-enabled open platform for the IoT edge. It will enhance BSI’s siteView with advanced OT connectivity by providing support for key industrial communication standards common in building environments such as BACnet, Modbus and OPC UA. In addition, the edge processing and edge management capabilities enabled by IOTech will ultimately support BSI’s objective of providing its customers and partners with improved operational efficiency, and opening the door to new smart building solutions.

“IOTech is pleased to partner with BSI to provide advanced IoT capabilities for siteView and siteConnect,” says, Keith Steele, CEO of IOTech Systems. “This collaboration provides further validation that through our open, comprehensive and flexible edge solutions, we’re continuing to drive IoT innovation and adoption.”

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Fuze releases platform updates to strengthen hybrid worker communications experiences

LONDON, UK. 27 October 2021—Fuze, the cloud-based communications provider for the modern global enterprise, announced platform enhancements built to deliver improved communication and collaboration for the growing hybrid workforce.

These enhancements include new mobile, meetings, and admin features, as well as Microsoft Teams integration updates that empower workers and enterprise organisations with the tools they need to maximise productivity and maintain business continuity within the increasingly distributed work environment.

According to Gartner, “in 2022, 31% of all workers worldwide will be remote (a mix of hybrid and fully remote). The U.S. will lead in terms of remote workers in 2022, accounting for 53% of the U.S. workforce.” With the rapid expansion of distributed work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, streamlining communications and workflows has never been more critical to worker productivity. Fuze addresses these needs with a seamless end-user experience for critical workstreams, helping to improve productivity and collaboration, regardless of a user’s location, through a truly unified platform.

“The global workforce has changed dramatically over the past year and a half, and the communications needs of the distributed workforce continue to evolve with it,” says Rob Scudiere, president & COO at Fuze. “Workers need to have the flexibility to easily communicate and collaborate across devices, with their peers and customers from any location. At Fuze, our goal is to meet users where they work and address the communication needs of the modern worker as they continue to evolve, and this platform update is a critical step in doing so during these rapidly changing times.”

Fuze’s new platform release features expanded functionality to meet the following key enterprise requirements:

Faster and easier interactions for remote workers

  • Improved meeting capabilities such as background blur, improved security, enhanced voice and video quality, and new screen share from chat make collaborating remotely simpler, faster, and more efficient.
  • Other features such as swipe to reply messaging and push-to-talk voice memos enhance the user experience for mobile-first workers.
  • The addition of ‘your agents’ view and watchlists in Fuze Supervisor for tablets, empowers Fuze Contact Centre managers with improved visibility and communication with teams while on-the-go.

Meeting users where they work, regardless of platform 

  • Expanded Microsoft Teams integration includes an enhanced calling experience through new flexible direct routing and enhanced access to call history for Fuze users with any Teams license.
  • New hybrid mode and Fuze Contact Centre agent tab for improved hybrid collaboration across the Fuze and Microsoft Teams platforms.

Empowering customer and partner administrators to better support the remote workforce

  • Improvements to Call Flow Manager, a new unique automated DID porting solution, and refined department management enable faster remote site configurations and management.
  • Expansion of Emergency Services capabilities with more detailed options for administrators, as well as end user location selection.
  • New STIR/SHAKEN technology to help address illegitimate caller ID spoofing and “verify” calls so a recipient has confirmation that the call is truly from the telephone number displayed on the caller ID.

Learn more about the latest updates here.

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Python developers now have native access to powerful multimodel data platform

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. 27 October, 2021 – InterSystems, a data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, announced that its InterSystems IRIS data platform now features full native support for Python, unleashing the power of the popular programming language for creating data-intensive, mission-critical applications. By embedding Python directly into the

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Opt-in software-based government – Nationality as a Service (NaaS)

The government functions to serve and represent its citizens, but around the world, citizens experience substandard public services with minimum transparency.  The governments fail to support individuals and communities efficiently. The services provided in many parts, from education to health, are broken. Reading this, some people might advocate the idea of bringing privatising public services.

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10 key considerations for enterprises buying global and regional IoT connectivity contracts

The IoT connectivity market is forecast to grow strongly, and global and regional contracts will take an even larger share of this market by 2025. An increasing share of companies are connecting IoT devices as part of a global or regional contract, rather than purely national agreements. The appeal of a single contract for multiple

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TigerGraph, HPE, and Xilinx announces hardware-accelerated graph analytics solution for the enterprise

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. 27 October, 2021 –TigerGraph, provider of a graph analytics platform, announced it is collaborating with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Xilinx, Inc. on a solution to make graph analytics capabilities more accessible for enterprises to accelerate insight while reducing costs and resources. The bundled solution, which is comprised of HPE ProLiant servers using Xilinx accelerator cards

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InstaVolt selects Eseye to deliver ultra-reliable connectivity for its UK EV charge point network

Guildford, UK. 27th October 2021 – Global IoT connectivity provider, Eseye, announced that its advanced AnyNet+ eSIM and intelligent IoT Connectivity Platform has been selected by the UK’s EV charge point network provider, InstaVolt, to deliver ultra-reliable cellular connectivity for its rapidly growing Electric Vehicle (EV) charging network across the UK.

InstaVolt joins Eseye’s fast-growing portfolio of high-profile clients in the EV sector, including Pod Point, Shell NewMotion and BP Chargemaster. The deal confirms Eseye’s position as the provider of choice for EV charging connectivity, to enable charging businesses like InstaVolt to achieve their deployment goals. 

InstaVolt’s goal is to provide the simplest and most transparent approach to EV charging in the UK where customers only pay for the electricity they use. After introducing new hardware to the network, the company needed a connectivity partner that could deliver the high uptime and class-leading reliability that are central to its customer proposition.

InstaVolt utilised Eseye’s device expertise and in-depth design advice to embed the AnyNet+ eSIM into its charge points. Eseye also provided a comprehensive onboarding process that rigorously tested devices in different connectivity environments to demonstrate the consistency and high availability assured by the Eseye solution.

InstaVolt’s implementation of Eseye’s intelligent connectivity solution is central to its commitment to improve customer confidence and trust in the UK’s public charging network and accelerate the large-scale adoption of EVs by providing fast, highly reliable, pay-as-you-go charging in convenient locations nationwide, with no subscription required. With 1,000 chargers already active or in late-stage development, the company is on track to exceed its pledge to deliver 5,000 rapid chargers by 2025 and has further committed to roll out 10,000 InstaVolt charge points by 2030.

Gary Kirkland, CTO, InstaVolt, “We chose Eseye as our connectivity partner because we are really confident in the service they provide. Ultimately, we want to work with class-leading software providers and the advanced technology Eseye offers is far beyond what anyone else in the market can provide. The AnyNet+ eSIM embedded in our charge points offers the ability to network manage and effectively switch connectivity to another provider, if needed. This ensures our chargers have high uptime wherever they are located, and our customers can simply tap, charge, and drive.”

Connectivity, reliability and longevity are critical to EV adoption

Drivers switching to EVs want to be assured that there is a reliable, available infrastructure to support them. Rapid, reliable charge point connectivity is essential to ensure customers have a swift and stress-free charging experience. Even short delays in establishing connections can accumulate to cause unwanted hold-ups, reducing the efficiency of charge points, limiting the throughput of customers and consequently impacting revenue potential.

“Widespread EV adoption is critical to the UK’s strategy to meet emissions reduction targets under the terms of the Paris Agreement and is very much front-of-mind as the UK hosts COP26,” adds Nick Earle, CEO Eseye. “To convince drivers to switch to electric vehicles, they must be confident that charging is fast, convenient, reliable and hassle-free.

InstaVolt’s ethos is based on building customer transparency and trust, and our market leading intelligent eSIM and global connectivity service is the ideal solution to ensure their charge points are rapidly connected, whenever a customer needs them. This is foundational to promoting EV adoption UK-wide.”

Eseye’s recent research into IoT adoption found that the EV charging sector outstrips others in its demand for intelligent connectivity 91% of respondents from this sector agreed that the evolution of intelligent connectivity is going to be critical to continue to fuel adoption of IoT.

“Intelligent connectivity is a keystone of the EV charging proposition,” concludes Nick. “As EV adoption grows, the need for ultra-reliable connectivity solutions that underpin the business case for large-scale project rollouts will simultaneously accelerate.” 

Get more market insights on the EV charging and smart grid sector in Eseye’s 2021 State of IoT Adoption research report

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InstaVolt selects Eseye to deliver ultra-reliable connectivity for its nationwide UK EV charge point network

Guildford, UK. 27th October 2021 – Global IoT connectivity provider, Eseye, announced that its advanced AnyNet+ eSIM and intelligent IoT Connectivity Platform has been selected by the UK’s EV charge point network provider, InstaVolt, to deliver ultra-reliable cellular connectivity for its rapidly growing Electric Vehicle (EV) charging network across the UK. InstaVolt joins Eseye’s fast-growing portfolio of high-profile

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