Industrial IoT

DMC assists our clients in choosing the best platform for their project. From 10 edge devices to 10,000 units, DMC engineers can help guide the development process that best fits your business. Identifying the proper field platform early can drive significant long-term cost savings in both the per-unit cost of goods and recurring maintenance and support. 

Transmitting information from the field (or the edge) to networked storage solutions and applications (the cloud) is fundamental to the success of IIoT applications. DMC engineers work to ensure security, data integrity, bandwidth, and transit costs are carefully optimized per application requirements. DMC consistently works with widely adopted IoT protocols like MQTT, HTTP, and AMQP, as well as less common mesh and long-range low-power wireless protocols.
In developing your preferred communications layer or protocol, consider the following:

• Encryption and security requirements
• Whether that data is one-directional or bidirectional
• How frequently does that data need to be transmitted
• Priority levels of data being transmitted
• Required bandwidth to transmit the data
• Transmission interface, e.g., via cellular modem or Ethernet

DMC’s IIoT solutions are tailor-made for cloud deployment but can also be easily adapted to on-premise infrastructures. Based on the customer’s existing infrastructure, our engineers will determine whether a Microsoft-based platform, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud solution is right for the client. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we have a large number of installations on Azure and many on a variety of cloud platforms, including AWS (as a member of the AWS Partner Network) and Google Cloud Services. Our team creates instances of different services, each with a different function: one that hosts the website, one that hosts the API, and another that hosts the database. This makes our provided solution modular, robust, and scalable.

Based on the available data and any existing user interfaces, DMC’s engineers will create a “storyboard” of the website design to demonstrate how the user will interact with the system via the web application, as well as preliminary styles. Working with our internal UX/UI design team, our Application Development team will build the web application from the ground up, typically using REACT or .NET. Our engineers built a custom API to interface the data to the website. DMC can also configure and provide the data to a variety of off-the-shelf IoT solutions, such as ThingsBoard.

We have internal processes to produce and make changes that prevent downtime on the live service. Once the solution is deployed, we will test it thoroughly with the customer and configure the devices to connect to and interact with live data. Testing this with the customer gives us the opportunity to flush out any issues and make any changes just once. DMC can allow the clients’ internal team to manage the application, or our team can provide the maintenance and support for the cloud service and application.