aicas Edge Data Gateway

Unlock the Value of Embedded Device and Vehicle Data

The amount of data coming from embedded devices and vehicles is already enormous and keeps growing as more sensors are added. The challenge is to identify, select, process, and combine the relevant data. It is impossible to send all the data from each device to the cloud. The bandwidth and stability for data transmission is often not sufficient and the costs are too high. A solution is needed that delivers specifically targeted data to internal consumers. Vehicle and device data provides valuable insights for decision making and cost savings across all areas of your organization: engineers, developers, data scientists, product managers, fleet operators, mobility services, business analysts, usage-based insurance, marketing, and more. Easy to use and data-driven, the aicas Edge Data Gateway (EDG) delivers value to all users.

aicas Edge Data Gateway delivers the right data to the right place at the right time.

The Data Management Portal "aicas Edge Data Gateway"

The aicas Edge Data Gateway (EDG) creates value from device and vehicle data and unlocks savings and monetization potential. The data management portal provides direct, unified, and cross-application access to data from edge systems. Supporting many different communication protocols, it is scalable across heterogeneous fleets of devices and target systems. Custom dashboards can be configured for data visualization and live data monitoring. Its flow editor enables data to be filtered, aggregated, or routed to third-party applications.

Boost Your Entire Business With the Power of Data

Access to extracted data strengthens your business in many ways. aicas Edge Data Gateway enables use cases that rely on data from small embedded devices or vehicles. Examples include machine learning, digital twins, supply chain management, fleet monitoring. They all require specific data that can be filtered and aggregated using EDG.

COMPLEXITY REDUCTION
by providing a single, standardized application

aicas EDG enables unified access to collect, select, and manage data from diverse sources at the network’s edge. It provides easy access to data from a variety of platforms, architectures, or fleets of devices and vehicles through a single application.

COST SAVINGS
by selecting the relevant data

aicas EDG allows you to select relevant information. Only the data you need is captured and sent to the cloud. This reduces bandwidth, costs, and processing time. Relevant data insights help identify problems or opportunities to improve before high costs occur.

BETTER DECISIONS
based on valuable data insights

Make confident, informed, data-driven decisions in near realtime and with low latency. aicas EDG delivers the relevant information. Configure custom dashboards for data visualization and live data monitoring.

SCALEABILITY
across heterogeneous systems

To ensure high adaptability, aicas EDG supports a wide range of communication protocols. Thus, it is scalable across heterogeneous fleets of devices and target systems and supports any use case.

EASY TO USE
without programming skills

No programming skills are required to use aicas EDG. Users can create complex data pipelines using common building blocks in an easy-to-use, codeless, flow-based approach. Costly modifications are not necessary. Data can be easily aggregated and filtered on a situational basis, enabling rapid response to situations.

SIMPLE DATA INTERPRETATION
through data visualization and live data monitoring

Create custom visualizations with the Dashboard Editor, which includes an extensive widget library. Custom charts easily display complex data, visualize live data, and allow you to quickly derive business conclusions.

EASY ADAPTATION TO YOUR BUSINESS
through role-based access

Sophisticated role-based access and multi-tenancy capability allow EDG to be perfectly adapted to existing infrastructures and personnel structures, and to be smoothly integrated into existing business processes.

COMPLEXITY REDUCTION
by providing a single, standardized application

aicas EDG enables unified access to collect, select, and manage data from diverse sources at the network’s edge. It provides easy access to data from a variety of platforms, architectures, or fleets of devices and vehicles through a single application.

COST SAVINGS
by selecting the relevant data

aicas EDG allows you to select relevant information. Only the data you need is captured and sent to the cloud. This reduces bandwidth, costs, and processing time. Relevant data insights help identify problems or opportunities to improve before high costs occur.

BETTER DECISIONS
based on valuable data insights

Make confident, informed, data-driven decisions in near realtime and with low latency. aicas EDG delivers the relevant information. Configure custom dashboards for data visualization and live data monitoring.

SCALEABILITY
across heterogeneous systems

To ensure high adaptability, aicas EDG supports a wide range of communication protocols. Thus, it is scalable across heterogeneous fleets of devices and target systems and supports any use case.

EASY TO USE
without programming skills

No programming skills are required to use aicas EDG. Users can create complex data pipelines using common building blocks in an easy-to-use, codeless, flow-based approach. Costly modifications are not necessary. Data can be easily aggregated and filtered on a situational basis, enabling rapid response to situations.

SIMPLE DATA INTERPRETATION
through data visualization and live data monitoring

Create custom visualizations with the Dashboard Editor, which includes an extensive widget library. Custom charts easily display complex data, visualize live data, and allow you to quickly derive business conclusions.

EASY ADAPTATION TO YOUR BUSINESS
through role-based access

Sophisticated role-based access and multi-tenancy capability allow EDG to be perfectly adapted to existing infrastructures and personnel structures, and to be smoothly integrated into existing business processes.

Use Case Example

Use Case: Automotive Data Dashboard

WHAT
An automotive hardware supplier wants to showcase its devices’ latest telemetry capabilities in an automotive scenario.

HOW
A number of different dashboards were developed using aicas EDG in a hardware-in-the-loop simulation. The dashboards are directly connected to the data source. Using the included flow editor, rules can be created to route specific data to other locations as needed. A unique implementation, switching, and display of various heterogeneous devices was achieved by using the stack of JamaicaVM, JamaicaAMS, aicas Edge Device Portal, and aicas Edge Data Gateway.

VALUE
Within a few days, the full demo was running on the new hardware. The time saved during development was used to customize the GUI with application-specific templates. The result: a rapidly available, highly stable demo.

USE CASE DEMO
At CES 2022, aicas has joined forces with AWS, MathWorks, and NXP to present a product demo. It shows the new world of data-driven capabilities that provide easy access to deep vehicle data.

Key Features

  • No Code Editor

    The No Code Editor inside EDG allows users – without any programming knowledge required – to route, process, filter, or aggregate data. The editor comes with a large number of pre-built data operation nodes, but can also be extended with custom-coded new elements. This allows data coming from the edge to be wired to feed the EDG dashboards, trigger notifications and alarms, or provide further value for external consumers, such as an analytics system.

  • Data Processing

    EDG chains logical blocks that aggregate or filter incoming data. This makes it really easy to select, sort, and filter data. As a result, you have access to exactly the selection of data you need. Based on this valuable information, you can support your data-driven business and application models.

  • Data Routing

    Once the data is transferred to the cloud, you often need to pass it on to other systems or third-party applications. With EDG, this can be done through an easy-to-use graphical editor without having to write a single line of code.

  • Data Visualization

    Designing dashboards to visualize data can be done without any technical background. It is just a matter of dragging UI elements into the editor and selecting the data source, no programming is required to quickly create powerful dashboards.

  • Integration With Cloud Data Services, e.g., AWS

    EDG integrates well with cloud data services, especially AWS IoT services such as FleetWise and Greengrass, to postprocess, aggregate, and visualize the data in user-configured dashboards. As part of the aicas EdgeSuite on the other end, it can control edge agents to easily collect, organize, and send the right data to the cloud.

The Solution Within the aicas Ecosystem

EDG supports 3rd party runtimes and solutions, but its value is greatest when it collects and links data from aicas’ edge runtime systems. There, EDG works with JamaicaAMS, the modular application management system, JamaicaVM, the Java software development kit and runtime, and its automotive services, aicas JamaicaCAR, and industrial services, JamaicaIOT. Within this ecosystem, EDG enables data discovery from new data sources or rapid prototyping with direct insight into IoT device data.
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