Category: AggreGate IoT Platform

In version 5.6, the AggreGate platform has become even more user-friendly and web-oriented.

AggreGate Store is our new approach to deployment of AggreGate servers in your network. Now you can distribute your own AggreGate applications for the use in your corporate network or on public access. Download and plug in only the modules and solutions that are required for your project. Add them when necessary as your project grows. Optimize your system resources.

Flexible device driver acts as a "driver construction kit". It allows to connect devices that use proprietary protocols by performing deep configuration of the system. It eliminates the need for development of a dedicated device driver in the Java programming language.

Welcome a new analytics tool in the AggreGate toolbox – the event correlator – a powerful streaming data processing engine! The correlator is designed for real-time data analyzing and processing, finding specific patterns, identifying trends and much more.

JavaScript API is a long-awaited AggreGate API for the most popular programming language. Now you can create modern web interfaces and interact with the server in the same language – JavaScript.

AggreGate web interface is given the ability to function autonomously, being managed by the Tomcat web server. A web application that is deployed separately is not bound to a specific server but can connect to any other server.

The license checking process can now be centralized and automated by the integration with a license server. AggreGate server administrators no longer need to monitor and manually modify the validity period of plugins included in a license.

Other major improvements include:

• New Data Table types
• Memory Watchdog
• Self Monitoring Dashboard
• Storage Upgrade
• Deeper Permission Control
• UI Customization
• Scaling in UI Builder
• Avatar Driver for allows working with another server’s devices as if they were available locally, etc.

Please check detailed information on the new 5.6 release, download AggreGate IoT Platform and let us know how it works for you!

One of the main improvements in the IoT AggreGate Platform 5.5 release was machine learning, which gave data processing professionals a chance to extract required knowledge while analyzing time series streams and large data sets.

And more recently, we have added several algorithms allowing you to create trainable units with an option of online learning.

Such trainable units have two important features. The first is ability to train on a data set that is too large to fit into memory. The second is ability to update with new data that wasn’t available during initial learning.

In other words, a trainable unit can be trained on available data, used for predictions, and get updated as soon as new data arrives, which will improve the quality of further predictions.

Importantly, the trainable unit in this case is not trained from scratch, but updated, modifying its existing state with new training data set.

The plus point is that it takes significantly less time to complete online learning than would be needed for learning from scratch.

In the new major release of our platform we're clearly targeting deeper data analytics. AggreGate already outperforms the competition in its abilities to collect, store and visualize data. As for processing and analytics, it's now more comparable to Business Intelligence software rather than other IoT platforms, and requirements of this market are unprecedentedly high. With this release, we introduce machine learning, visual workflows and other modules designed for processing big data and getting in row with the best BI platforms.

The principal achievement of Release 5.5 is Machine Learning. It’s an instrument allowing data scientists to drill into time series streams and extremely large datasets in order to mine valuable knowledge. Trainable units that perform actual learning and scoring have so-called hyper parameters used by data scientists to fine-tune algorithm behaviour. Combined with workflows, machine learning module is a one-stop tool for predicting failures and optimizing operation of both physical assets and business services.

One more significant upgrade is Visual Workflows combining server-side logic with operator interactions. There can be unlimited number of concurrent event-initiated threads in any workflow. Workflows-based data processing and decision making algorithms may be implemented by anyone who doesn’t have even very basic scripting and programming language knowledge.

Graph Databases are currently gaining a lot of interest as a modern, robust and fast-growing Database Engine of the NoSQL family. They allow for you to represent complex interactions between your data in a much more natural form. Graph databases perform exceptionally well in path and structure analysis. One of the most intuitive fields of appliance is Configuration Management (and CMDBs).

Another considerable step forward is a new Report Editor. Jaspersoft® Studio, the leading report development software, is now bundled with AggreGate 5.5. Dozens of visual components, powerful data processing tools like expressions and queries along with rich export capabilities allow to embed highly interactive reports and analytics into any system.

AggreGate is a full-featured platform servicing as a foundation for custom turnkey solutions. Once a solution has been developed it should be rolled out to its end users. An effective way to replicate a solution is implementing a custom server plugin that incorporates specific system resources, such as alerts or dashboards. Resource Packs represent a new tool that automates and simplifies creation of resource plugins.

Other major improvements include:

• Ladder Diagrams support
• Scaling Widgets
• Statistics NoSQL Storage
• Authentication Plugins
• Variable Access Performance Improvement
• Embedded HTTP Server

A few more device drivers come with AggreGate 5.5: Ethernet/IP, XMPP, IEC 60870-5-104 Server.

Check detailed information on the Release and download AggreGate IoT Platform 5.5.

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