BUGswarm is a next-generation “machine-to-cloud” system that converts remote/mobile asset data into a collection of easily consumed and manipulated web services, making them centrally available via a hosted service, management dashboard, value-added applications and API framework.
BUGswarm helps organizations make better decisions
by accelerating the pace of information flow from remote, mobile and unique company assets. BUGswarm provides decision-makers with accurate, real-time operational data that removes the guesswork from activities like field force optimization, inventory tracking, remote asset management, situational awareness, security/surveillance, and more. This new approach provides several important, ground-breaking benefits:
Removes information silos by making all information “equal”.
Organizations can combine and “mashup” information from a variety of sources (both internal and external) to achieve breakthrough levels of performance. For example, fleet managers could easily combine truck location and fuel level with external fuel station/pricing and Google map information to produce actionable, real-time re-fueling reports that help reduce operational costs.
Improves visibility of remote asset situation.
BUGswarm-enabled organizations can take advantage of real-time search functions to immediately determine the status or situation of any asset. For example, a security operations manager could quickly determine if any network camera was currently “seeing” the color blue in an effort to track a specific individual in a store.
Enables insightful “what-if?” scenario reporting.
Because BUGswarm makes it easy to combine and recombine information from remote and mobile sources, managers can quickly run planning scenarios that improve operational efficiency. For example, what if you could combine real-time weather data with smart meter heating/cooling parameters to improve performance? With BUGswarm, these types of questions get answered.
BUGswarm Management UI
BUGswarm Applications
BUGswarm’s new machine-to-cloud architecture gives application developers cutting edge tools for building the next generation of M2M solutions. Since BUGswarm abstracts hardware functions into a set of well-defined web services, accessible via a comprehensive API set, application developers are free to focus on business logic and not the nuts and bolts of interfacing with remote machines over heterogeneous networks.
Applications can run entirely in the cloud or in a hybrid form, with components of application logic running locally on the asset/machine itself. Developers and IT managers can deploy applications in the manner best suited to their particular situation.
Key Features/Benefits
As its name implies, BUGswarm is specially designed to work with groups/collections of assets because this is how businesses organize and deploy them. This approach provides a number of key features and benefits:
- Granular, service-level permissions.
- Control individual and group-level access to all machine data, down to a specific services.
- Group level operations.
- Add, delete, modify and administer group members via integrated BUGswarm management portal.
- Notifications and alerts.
- Easily set up rules-based triggers to send alerts to individuals, groups or other BUGswarms of machines/assets.
- Reporting and decision support tools.
- Get instant, group-level information on BUGswarm status and situation in real-time or historical format.