AM Technologies secures the prestigious Aegis Graham Bell Award 2019 in ‘Innovation in IoT’ Category – Aegis Graham Bell Awards

GOA, India 1st February 2019: Aegis Graham Bell Award 2019 announced AM Technologies as winner in
“Innovation in IoT” category for their “amiot”, the Remote & Smart Monitoring -Field Services Management Digital Platform.
AM Technologies has been applauded as the winner at the 9th edition of Aegis Graham Bell

Award 2019 hosted by Government of Goa at Entertainment Society of Goa, Panaji.

Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) has been promoting innovations in the ICT domain. AGBA has been rewarding those who have been contributing in these fields, for 8 years with a vision to foster and stimulate innovators for India to become the nucleus of innovations.

“amiot” empowers industry to automate their equipment smarter by enabling machine to machine communication, automating exceptions through auto-actuation or through intelligent resource scheduling, thereby optimizing operational costs.
“AM Technologies and their innovation ‘amiot’ have won the Aegis Graham Bell Award. amiot” is a smart and secured IoT platform powered for constructing machine to machine communication. We applaud the impactful innovation” – Bhupesh Daheria, Jury & Founder, Aegis Graham Bell Awards; CEO, Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security & Telecom

“We, at AM Technologies are honored and humbled in receiving the coveted Aegis Graham Bell Award. The award is an endorsement of the impact Internet of Things (IoT) can play in harnessing the possibilities to build smart solutions, thereby addressing critical business needs in the remote and smart monitoring space”, said Somjit Amrit, Country Manager and Head of CoE, AM Technologies.

About AM Technologies:

With four decades of experience serving customers across the globe, AM Technologies is a pioneer in the development and deployment of remote monitoring systems for varied applications, employing technology that has evolved over the years and now being enabled by the Internet of Things. The company is headquartered in McLean, VA, USA in the Dulles Technology Corridor adjacent to Washington DC, USA and its Technology Center of Excellence is based in Chennai, India.

About Aegis Graham Bell Awards:

Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovations in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The award is powered by mUni Campus. It is organized with the support of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centers of Excellence (TCOE) India, a public-private partnership initiative of DoT with 08 Centers at premier academic institutes (06 IITs, IISc and IIMA) of the country, each supported by a Telecom Service Provider and Convergence India and KPMG as knowledge partner. For more information, please visit: www.bellaward.com

For more information, please contact:

Shweta Chavan | Corporate Communication | Aegis Graham Bell Awards | 8433969263| shweta@bellaward.com

Smart Buildings & The Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly becoming the agent of change for how properties, both residential and commercial, are managed. Affordable technology is now available to monitor critical conditions in the property, instantaneously notifying the Property Manager of environmental changes that can seriously degrade the integrity and operating efficiency of the building.

Asset Management is the foundational level of a ‘Smart Building’ infrastructure, and the good news is that what was once an expensive proposition has now reached a price point where the return on investment for the property owner may be immediate.

A Smart Building architectural design can go well beyond asset management, with convenience features such as automated lighting, appliance control and dynamic HVAC configurations. Real-time monitoring and management of building parameters such as energy usage, access control, and alarm conditions, all contribute to improved operating efficiency for the property. An inter-connected network of IoT sensors, aggregating data into a cloud-based management system, yields a user-friendly, remotely-accessible property management tool for the Property Manager.

What is a Smart Building?

At its core, a Smart Building creates a safer, more responsive environment for residents, employees and the property owner. Ubiquitous sensors placed throughout the building monitor key indicators within the property. By continuously monitoring environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, water leakage and carbon monoxide levels, potentially catastrophic problems are immediately identified, resulting in a safer space for the occupants, and a protected asset for the property owner. Protecting the building and its occupants should be priority one for any Smart Building.

With a smart foundation in place to address building safety, IoT technology can also be employed to enhance the operating efficiency of the property, primarily through energy management. With smart meters, all utilities can be continuously monitored. Data analytics applied to the energy usage data collected over time; i.e., trend analysis, will reveal a deterioration in the performance of the energy systems.

Installing IoT-connected load shedding switches allows the utility to perform demand management, in exchange for a lower energy rate.

A Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU) property is an ideal candidate for a smart infrastructure, providing numerous management features, which facilitate the everyday responsibilities of the Property Manager. A single screen of a tablet app graphically displays the temperature and other environmental conditions of an entire floor. Using the same tablet app, the Property Manager can place an unoccupied living unit in the “vacant” mode, automatically arming the door entry and motion detection sensors, and setting back the temperature.

Residents who enable a beaconing feature on their smartphone, or choose to wear a panic button pendant, can be immediately located in a building, an important feature for aging in place and assisted living facilities.

Now we come to the futuristic lifestyle, so commonly associated in popular culture with a Smart Building. With the interconnection of property sensors, human sensors and appliance control, myriad convenience features can be realized. A motion detector in the master bedroom turns on the heated flooring in the master bathroom, but only during typical wake-up hours in the morning. Sensing that you’ve arrived at home at the end of a work day, the system turns on the TV to your favorite news channel. Hundreds of “if this, then that” scenarios can be envisioned and programmed into the Smart Building system.

Lastly, a Smart Building enables an unprecedented opportunity for academic research into human behavioral analysis on a broad scale. The sensors imbedded in a smart building infrastructure collect data on everyday human activities, sending the data (in anonymous form to protect the privacy of individuals) to a data analytics engine for analysis by private and public enterprises. The insights gleaned from this research holds the promise of societal advancements in a wide array of disciplines, including urban planning, telemedicine, and human factors and ergonomics, ultimately leading us to a world in which Smart Cities are commonplace.

How Does IoT Work:

There are three functional layers in the IoT system model: Sensing, Aggregation, and Services. The Sensing layer can be segmented into two sub-classes: property sensors and human sensors.

Property sensors are embedded in the building infrastructure to monitor key environmental indicators such as air quality, temperature and humidity, to generate security alerts such as door open/close and motion detection, to measure energy consumption, and to facilitate location awareness.

Human sensors are associated with human activity, and are typically worn or carried; examples are wearable wrist bands, panic button pendants, and even a mobile phone. In a Smart Building, the combination of fixed property sensors and mobile human sensors produces a tremendous amount of data for the system to interpret and act upon.

It is advisable to use wired sensors whenever possible for fixed property sensors, to circumvent the need for periodic battery replacement. However, wireless sensors powered by a battery are the practical choice for human sensors.

Data from the sensors are collected at the Aggregation layer; this typically takes the form of an IoT Gateway or Hub. For example, in an MDU application, each living unit may have an IoT Gateway installed as part of the building infrastructure, to collect data from the wired and wireless sensors in the living unit. The intelligence associated with interpreting and acting upon the collected data may reside in the gateway, or the gateway’s role may be limited to only collecting the data and passing it up to the next level. In many cases, a hybrid approach is the best solution, in which some limited functionality is performed locally within the gateway, while the majority of the system intelligence is at the next level.

That next level is the Services layer, consisting of management software residing in the cloud or on an on-property computer. Here, at one central location, is the repository for all the collected data. The Services layer interprets the data for the purpose of passive monitoring, real-time control, and “if this, then that” functionality. And, performing data analytics on the accumulated data produces insights for a multitude of business, lifestyle and societal applications.

Another component of the Services layer is the User Interface (UI). The consumers of the IoT data, whether they be the Property Manager, resident, security personnel, etc., access and view the information reported by the IoT system with a UI. The UI can take many forms: a smartphone, smartwatch, tablet PC, a laptop, a smart TV, a voice control device such as the Amazon Echo, or a management console in a monitoring center. Certain UI types are more appropriate for different consumers; for example, a smartphone app may be most convenient for a resident, while the larger screen of a tablet PC is more suitable for a Property Manager.

Key Advantages of a ‘Smart’ building:

  • Enhanced quality of life for all
  • Marketing advantage over non-smart
  • Lower turnover rate for rental
  • Empowers remote caregivers for Aging-in-Place and child monitoring
  • Immediate notification of threats to
  • For MDUs, monitor usage of common
  • Security for vacant
  • Cloud-based, no server to maintain on
  • Establishes an IoT eco-system for future applications and
  • Encourages a sense of community with retail promotions, neighbor interaction and neighborhood watch.
  • Maintenance efficiency: reduced administration, phone calls, and fewer property visits will be required in order to diagnose potential issues and carry out
  • Enables Utility demand management for energy efficiency and a reduced

Financial benefit: the property will be significantly more attractive to insurers and lenders as the system mitigates accidents that may lead to costly repairs.

The Opterna Property Relyance™ System

The Property Relyance System is an integrated, foundational IoT-based solution designed to protect assets and empower occupants, transforming any property into a Smart Building.

With the Property Relyance System, the building network infra- structure is state-of-the-art for today and future-proof for tomorrow. The system facilitates asset management through the monitoring of hard-wired environmental and security sensors embedded in the property. System sensors monitor key environmental indications such as temperature, humidity, water and gas leakage, as well as carbon monoxide levels. In addition, the system addresses security concerns with entrance monitoring and motion detectors.

And, Relyance is an eco-system for the Internet of Things, now and in the future, with the addition of smart appliances, health monitoring devices and wearables. Wireless protocols are supported, allowing the property owner or tenant to add new IoT devices into the system over time.

For MDU applications, an intuitive app installed on a tablet PC provides the Property Manager with a comprehensive, real-time view of the property status. A smartphone app for residents displays appropriate information about their living environment.

With the many property management and quality of life features supported by the system, Relyance is not just a future-proof system, it’s a future-now system.

The Relyance™ Hub:

At the heart of the Property Relyance System is this multi-interface IoT Hub, connecting the ‘Things’ within the property to the Cloud. It continuously collects data from sensors installed in the living unit, both wired and wireless, and features integrated temperature and humidity sensors. A full complement of compatible sensors are available, assuring a trouble-free installation.

The Hub is designed to fit in a standard 4-gang wiring box, and is flush mounted in the wall, blending into the room’s decor. Security protocols protect communications between the Gateway and a cloud-based server. The Gateway can be configured with a WiFi or Ethernet connection to the Internet; Gateway configuration is easily accomplished using the Setup Relyance smartphone app.

User Interface Applications:

The Property Relyance app is a full-featured interface for the Property Manager, enabling efficient asset management of an MDU property. Alerts from all living units are displayed and logged by the app. Resident profiles are entered and viewable. Property Relyance monitors the security of vacant units, as well as activity in common areas such as game rooms. Residents can be located within the property in case of emergencies. The Property Manager can enter bulletins in the app, which are sent to all resident’s smartphones. Residents can report maintenance issues through their smartphone app to the Property Relyance app.

Home Relyance is a smartphone app with a feature set appropriate for the home owner or MDU tenant. Environmental conditions for their living space are displayed. Security sensors are monitored and alerts can be configured. Bulletins from the Property Manager can be viewed, maintenance requests can be entered. For families, an “at home” feature detects the presence of each family member’s mobile phone, a reliable indication that the family member is at or near the property. google pagerankзаказать создания

AM Technologies and Ashling Systems Collaborate on RISC-V Technology for IoT Applications

There is no dispute that the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing rapidly, reaching the tens of billions by 2020.  The cloud computing model for processing data in IoT applications will surely be strained beyond its limits as these applications grow not only in number, but also in complexity.  With the maturation of IoT, use cases such as complex image and signal processing are certain to generate an inordinate amount of data at the device level.  Moreover, many of these devices must transmit this extensive quantity of data through low-bandwidth wireless links such as NB-IoT and LoRa.  To this we can add one more challenge: operating the device with full functionality over an extended period of time with limited power availability.

To address these emerging challenges, AM Technologies and Ashling Systems have come together on a collaborative project, applying their collective expertise in the disciplines of Remote Monitoring, IoT and RISC-V development and test tools.  RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computing, a technology that utilizes a small subset of instructions to carry out processing.  With a reduced set of instructions, the speed of processing is optimized and more efficient, while consuming less power.  RISC-V technology is ideal for embedded IoT applications with low or no power availability coupled with highly reliable performance demands.

AM Technologies’ experience in Remote Monitoring Systems spans a four decade period, with a customer base across numerous industries including Telecom, Broadband, Data Centers and Smart Buildings.  The company has developed the “amiot” IoT platform, offering customers the ability to “Connect, Monitor and Act.” With the amiot platform, remote IoT sensors connect to cognitive cloud intelligence, enabling an unprecedented level of system management and enterprise productivity.

Ashling Systems provides the RiscFree™ Ecosystem, a unique Cloud Platform and Comprehensive IoT Test Bed, for use in the development and validation of RISC-V applications within the setup environment or a pre-hardware simulation and modeling environment.  Ashling’s debug tools include full IDE, RISC-V compilation, RTOS-aware debugging, JTAG probe, trace and a full suite of simulation with hardware modeling.

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AM Technologies Ships One Millionth Transponder for Cable TV OSP Monitoring

AM Technologies, the leading manufacturer of DOCSIS transponders for Cable TV outside plant equipment, announced today the shipment of one million transponders to MSO’s and OEM Equipment Manufacturers.  AM DOCSIS transponders are installed in power supplies and nodes for monitoring the health of these critical devices, to ensure the reliability of the Cable TV outside plant.

“This is an important milestone for our company, our OEM partners and the industry, sending a message that network integrity is critical to the performance of Cable Television and Internet services” said Bret Matz, President of AM Technologies. “With our fourth-generation DOCSIS transponder, and exclusive supplier agreements with leading OEM equipment manufacturers, AM has solidified its position as the market leader in this product segment for years to come.”