Seminar 26th October 2015 10 a.m. 176/2013
PLEXUS - Real time monitoring, control and analysis of events and data
Dr Shilong Lu and Fabrizio Lungo
Fidelity Data Networks Ltd
- Categories
- NGCM
- Submitter
- Susanne Ufermann Fangohr
Summary
The world is on the threshold of a new era of innovation and change with the rise of the Industrial Internet; we call it Machine-to-Machine communications (M2M) or the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT). It’s taking place through the convergence of: micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and processes, with the power of advanced computing and big data analytics, and new levels of secure connectivity, permitted by advances in wireless networking technology. Respected industry analysts IDC predict that the number of devices connected to the Internet, excluding PCs, tablets and smartphones, will reach 26 billion by 2020 and that this will become a $7.1 trillion market in 2020. IoT is simply an environment that gathers data from multiple devices and translates that data into actionable information. ?
Bio
Dr Shilong Lu – Director, Research and Product Development
Shilong heads up our research and development department. He has been continuously hands-on in the field of electronics engineering since 2003 and has more than 10 years relevant experience. His experience covered the development of medical devices, intelligent agriculture and transportation systems, eco-environment protection application, etc. His expertise concentrates on analogue & digital mixed circuit design, embedded programming, wireless sensor networks and Internet of things technologies and ASIC design and crosses the whole product design and development lifecycle (idea - conception - feasibility analysis - prototype building - product development - long-term testing/maintenance). Shilong has 9 Chinese patent applications (5 of them have been granted) and 11 publications during the research and development phase of these leading edge technologies.
Fabrizio Lungo – Senior Systems Architect
Fabrizio is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the cloud and on- premises infrastructure used for our research and development. He has a deep interest in software and network technologies gaining experience from his involvement with various open source projects, professional work including web and application hosting and his time studying Computer Science at the University of Southampton. His experience in both software development and hardware deployment has helped us create a robust and scalable architecture utilising the latest technologies.
The Company
Fidelity provides solutions for real-time monitoring, control, and analysis of events and data. The company is based at the University of Southampton Science Park where we have a modern office facility and a development laboratory. Fidelity has a joint venture with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Southampton University. At the heart of Fidelity’s ‘connectivity’ solution is ‘PLEXUS’ our multi-tenant, cloud- hosting platform for IoT applications. It enables thousands of organisations to simultaneously monitor, control and analyse data from their connected devices.
PLEXUS uses a device (such as a sensor, meter or micro-computer) to capture an event (such as a product, system or process malfunction), which is relayed through a network, to an application that translates the captured event and data, into meaningful and actionable information.