Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has just made a major push into the Internet of Things design market by announcing five new solutions that will help engineers to deploy wide area, enterprise or industrial fleets of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices.
- HPE Mobile Virtual Network Enabler
- Updated HPE Universal IoT Platform
- Aruba ClearPass Universal Profiler
- Aruba 2540 Series Switches
- A partnership with Edgeline Systems for edge computing and integrated control
The releases aim to target the cost to market, protocol compatibility and security issues of the IoT market. These problems become ever more complicated as the scope of an IoT project grows. As a result, HPE is targeting customers looking to make large deployments of IoT products.
HPE claims that its new series of IoT tools will help to reduce connectivity costs, optimize the life cycle of IoT products, translate a device’s communication into a common language, and derive greater insights from the big data collected from the devices.
HPE Mobile Virtual Network Enabler
One of the tools that HPE hopes will help engineers with their large-scale IoT deployments will be the Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE). The tool will give engineers control over devices that are connected to the IoT system via cellular networks.
In fact, the tool will help to develop HPE’s IoT Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) that will resell IoT connectivity at price points that makes large-scale machine-to-machine (M2M) communication practical on a large scale.
HPE predicts that the MVNE’s ability to provision, configure, administrate and bill the connectivity of an IoT network will reduce IoT provisioning costs by up to 80 percent.
HPE Universal IoT Platform
To help combat the protocol compatibility problem of the IoT, HPE has built its Universal IoT Platform on the oneM2M interoperability standard. The platform also manages the MVNE, IoT devices, reporting and analytics of the system.
The Universal IoT Platform is compatible with various long-range, low-power and other wireless communication options, including:
- Bluetooth
- Cellular
- LoRa
- Radio
- Sigfox
- Wi-Fi
The platform can also communicate with both SIM and non-SIM devices, as well as with heterogeneous LoRa environments.
“Cost-prohibitive economics and the lack of a holistic solution are key barriers for mass adoption of IoT,” explained Keerti Melkote, senior vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “By approaching IoT with innovations to expand our comprehensive framework built on edge infrastructure solutions, software platforms and technology ecosystem partners, HPE is addressing the cost, complexity and security concerns of organizations looking to enable a new class of services that will transform workplace and operational experiences.”
HPE Aruba Releases Focus on IoT and LAN Security
A subsidiary of HPE, Aruba, has just released two tools to help connect large deployments of IoT devices, the ClearPass Universal Profiler and the 2540 Series of Switches. These tools will reduce the per-port cost of wired IoT connectivity and will help to inventory all devices in the system.
The ClearPass Universal Profiler will identify the devices and their attributes connecting to the system. For instance, engineers will know whether connections are made via wired or wireless devices, and what security policies should be used when systems are connected to each device. As a result, the tool also adds security and performance indicators to the IoT system.
The Aruba 2540 Series Switches, in contrast, add security via unified role-based access. This will add roles to the IoT devices connected to the system. It will also prioritize business applications and control the network applications that a device can access. Unlike many of the other announcements by HPE that are aimed at large systems, these switches target small-to-medium-sized IoT deployments.
Industrial IoT Deployments Living on the Edge with HPE
HPE has announced two partnerships that will help develop its Edgeline Converged Edge Systems. With these partnerships, new tools and use cases will be made available.
The first collaboration is with PTC and National Instruments to solve “Factory Asset Anomaly Detection and Remediation” tools. These tools will warn engineers of failures so that their maintenance teams can fix the issues before they become problems.
Another collaboration will be with OSIsoft for data management on the edge. Using the Edgeline Systems, tool engineers can store, manage and access the time series data used in their operational technology and industrial settings. This will help engineers to ensure that their industrial data is secured and available when they need it.
To learn more about the HPE Universal Platform, read: HP Launches IoT Platform to Streamline Heterogeneous Devices and Data Management.