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Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation and Nebbiolo Technologies Inc. signed a strategic partnership agreement to deploy industrial IoT solutions using leading-edge fog computing technology. As strategic partners, a complete suite of infrastructure products will be developed driving new business supporting industrial IoT architecture and specifications.
The partnership establishes a large-scale initiative in the factory IoT domain to address modernizing the aging fleet of hardware and software currently deployed on industrial automation floors using a virtualized fog platform to enable consolidation, central management, upgraded security, high availability, and thereby improve overall operational efficiency
Furthermore, this collaboration extends Toshiba's SPINEX IoT architecture with fog infrastructure used for computing nodes and IoT gateways supporting industrial machines. The objective is to enable comprehensive asset and life cycle management of these systems integrated with the ability to provide advanced data analytics and machine learning.
Nebbiolo will augment Toshiba's IoT software platform capabilities to achieve the aforementioned objectives. Toshiba will develop and integrate complete industrial IoT solutions with connectivity, security, data accumulation, visualization, and management leveraging Nebbiolo's fog computing platform.
Toshiba is offering its IoT architecture SPINEX to help customers accelerate digital transformation and improve business efficiency. SPINEX was developed leveraging Toshiba Group's extensive industrial knowledge and expertise applied across various sectors from semiconductor to industrial and social infrastructure systems, consisting of major building blocks: data connection platform ("Meister DigitalTwin"), edge computing and analytics AI service ("SATLYS"). As Toshiba is required to turn massive volumes of data generated at its worksites into actionable intelligence right at the edge, Toshiba recognizes the crucial role of edge computing and has focused on developing and improving this technology using Nebbiolo's fog computing platform. Also, Toshiba's analytics AI service "SATLYS", enables accurate recognition, prediction, cause inference, anomaly detection, failure prediction and behavior inference.
Nebbiolo's fog computing platform, based on fogNodes, offered by Nebbiolo or by third parties, powered by functional fogOS stack and centrally managed by the fogSM system manager, addresses many of the current industrial automation challenges. It virtualizes and converges hardware and software components; and it provides centralized software lifecycle management for distributed applications at the edge. It supports application-defined networking for OT/OT and OT/IT separation and Time-Sensitive Networking ("TSN") for real-time workloads, distributed security, software SDK/APIs, IT-like data management, and opens the path to the future of industrial control. A fog-based architecture makes it possible to implement a modern industrial Infrastructure progressively, with minimal disruption, and as a beneficial complement to today's deployed systems.