Businesses of all sizes are getting smarter about their assets, people and transactions. It's thanks to IoT, cloud applications as well as A.I. / cognitive platforms that find new insights within large data sets.

While most areas of a business have already adopted a degree of digitisation, asset managers have been slower to embrace the digital revolution. Historically, enterprise management systems (like Maximo) have focused on becoming the single source of truth for lifecycle performance, cost and condition of organisational assets and facilities.

This has been an essential stage to increase the performance of asset-intensive businesses. However, progression beyond this point requires the unlocking of insights buried in individual and collective asset records. This then supports enhanced planning and strategic decision-making.

Asset-intensive organisations collect vast amounts of data from field-based based sensors and machine-to-machine communications. Housing, governing and quality-assuring this data is the first challenge. Certus can help you tap into this precious resource, enabling you to create smarter assets, deliver intelligent insights and provide new business outcomes.

We focus on creating asset intelligence. The challenge for organisations is to make sense of IoT data and using it to deliver meaningful actions.

Through data analytics, cognitive computing and other Artificial Intelligence platforms, Certus can help unlock the potential of your IoT data. The major building blocks of an IoT solution include:

• Sensors and gateways for sensor data
• Edge analytic tools for conditioning and pre-analysing asset sensors
• Storage (generally cloud) of raw and analysed sensor data
• Analytics and actions driven by sensor inputs
• A.I. and Cognitive Computing for advanced analytics