Applications first – The Rise of Container Applications in Industrial IoT

The landscape of Industrial IoT is experiencing a shift. We’re moving away from proprietary systems towards Linux and fully containerized, future-proof industrial IoT applications. Customer expectations are also evolving, with increasing demand for uninterrupted online and offline operations, as well as swift and remote support and maintenance. This sets a new benchmark for delivering cutting-edge, software-led industrial IoT solutions.

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Industrial IoT applications in offline scenarios

Current industrial IoT applications need to provide a high degree of on-premise availability and local intelligence. The days of best-effort applications just passing data to the cloud are gone. Today’s IIoT applications control robots, guarantee personal safety, and perform preventive maintenance. This calls for IoT applications that are application-centric on the factory floor, not just data-centric.

As a systems vendor, you provide a complete industrial IoT system to your customers. It often includes bundled hardware, operating system, IoT services, and — the value stream itself — applications. An industrial IoT system is commonly installed on-premise which is why it’s key to guarantee a high degree of application availability for your customers, even throughout events of disrupted or unreliable connectivity.

Instant fault-detection and remote deployments to meet SLAs

Also, if and when an issue occurs with your industrial IoT application, you need to detect that before your customers do, as well as possess the ability to resolve issues remotely. Slow manual processes including mailing logs dumps back and forth won’t meet the standards of application availability and time-to-resolve requirements. You should be able to analyze, troubleshoot, fix, and validate fully remote without manual intervention from your customer or tedious VPN connections.

The days of onsite visits for software updates are gone. You should be able to upgrade software and add features remotely, securely, and at large scale.

Applications-first at the industrial IoT edge

If your are facing challenges like:

• Ensuring high-availability of your on-site systems
• Conducting software upgrades remotely
• Providing comprehensive real-time remote monitoring and trouble-shooting

Look for an application-centric edge orchestrator capable of managing thousands of hosts along with their operating systems and applications. With the advent of software container standards, you’re no longer confined to specific vendor platforms.

Meet Avassa for Industrial IoT.

The Avassa platform allows you to select the finest software components for IoT protocols and data management. It empowers you to develop your industrial IoT application using your preferred languages and tools, and to run it on any Linux variant. The Avassa platform for Industrial IoT enables you to:

• Oversee all your remote systems, monitor hardware, update the OS, and deploy applications.
• Utilize the open ecosystem of container software and Linux.
• Rely on the only proven container platform for massive edge scale.

Learn more about using the Avassa Edge Platform for industrial IoT.