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The industry has been abuzz with the Internet of Things for the larger part of the previous decade; its potentialities and vision ever-expanding, corresponding newer challenges being thrown up in practically all areas of computer science and engineering.
Starting from the rudimentary vision of RFID tags being accessible over the internet, the vision has bludgeoned our community now – to the extent that visionaries come up with newer terms in attempts to differentiate their vision.
Amidst this, GS Lab has viewed IoT as the homecoming of things (devices, sensors… our mute friends) onto the internet; the things staking a claim as equals with humans when it comes to being a netizen. Just as the so-called social media broke several barriers to bring equality across humans, IoT is breaking barriers between things, and between things and humans.
At GS Lab, we believe the internet of things is something to be realized collaboratively. We take a multifaceted approach:
Partner with customer to invent new technology stacks
- Distributed operational workflows
- Global analytics that is locally actionable
- Innovative security mechanisms
- Simplified edge-connectivity across plethora of protocols
- Cloud based multi-tenanted developer tools
- IoT test automation frameworks
Create solutions tailored to solve a given problem in a most efficacious way by a synergistic blend of various technologies, both open-source and the inventions above. Our analytical mindset, continually sharpened by our core focus of practicing innovation gives us the edge in creating such precise solutions
ISV and SI both need an adept engineering force that can comprehend fundamentals of a given domain, and correlate to corresponding ecosystem comprising of different technologies and products. Our multifaceted approach enables us to both play and/or complement the ISV and SI roles flexibly.
We have seen fruition of this effort in realizing, for example,
Smart city platform that can run cross-vertical policies across disparate sensor providers; currently in pilots across Europe, Australia, India, and US
Water management solution to monitor water usage in residential and corporate establishments to provide actionable insights such as leak detection, reducing water wastage, recycling water etc.
Optimized scheduling of activities (e.g. heating) in a liquid storage industry to smoothen the peak demand and reduce energy costs
Interested in building a solution to enable your refrigerator to talk to your neighbourhood grocery store’s drone and get stocked automatically? We live in times where this is no longer a fancy, but realizable; not in some indefinite future, but now.
Service Offerings
IoT Apps
Wonders the thing “so much spent on me… why?” well friend, you’re applied for more than RoI
While things enable a business to make money, applications are how a business makes money. Applications are targeted towards generating revenue or improving operational efficiency.
We’ve enabled/created apps for
- smart cities (parking, lighting)
- industrial power-consumption (monitoring, optimization)
- water management (monitoring water-flow)
Insight into domain specifics is needed for any app; IoT apps require, in addition, specialized skill in identifying the right things, and applying them to the specific problem to be solved – something we’ve got expertise in, which can be leveraged for your specific needs.
Edge Connectivity (Agent GW and Cross protocol GW)
Like all active devices, the edge gateways have become intelligent-er. Along with protocol conversion (non-IP to IP), they are now involved in data aggregation, device management and decision making. Being an early adopter of this trend, GS Lab not only accelerates the development of your intelligent edge gateways, but it also helps you build secure, robust and scalable network of devices. How? We offer our expertise in development of products working at different network layers, porting protocol stacks (ex. TR-069, SNMP, UPnP, MQTT, XMPP, AMQP) and framework based development (ex. IFTTT, Atomiton, Node-RED).
IoT Cloud (Alerts and Actuation)
Bidirectional communication is key, especially for devices with real-time state changes such as smart-street-lights or cameras with adjustable FOV.
Targeted, real-time and/or scheduled actuation and alerts, be it
- on-the-edge workflows (e.g. on the Atomiton stack, smart gateways), or
- actuation based on global conditions detected at the cloud using protocols such as MQTT, OPC-UA etc.
Enable flashing of lights near accidents, or control specific motors to reduce instantaneous overall power demand? – been there, done that.
IoT Cloud (Device Management and Provisioning)
In addition to discovering and/or registering a thing, the cloud has the duty to continuously monitor health and other parameters of all the things, upgrade the firmware etc.
Details depend on the IoT platform being used, the smartness of the gateway in the solution and the protocols involved. Bidirectional handshakes using MQTT/AMQP, AWS-IoT SDK are some of the technologies we’re proficient with; ensuring identity of each thing, and security are of paramount importance as always.
IoT Cloud (Vertical-specific analytics)
“My vision is narrow” bemoans the thing; but friend, you contribute to greater understanding
We’ve amassed a quiver of analytic technologies from our experience in diverse verticals. Demonstrably proven in generating actionable insights, for example,
- computing dwell-time, traffic/crowd trends etc. by tracking mobile devices across multiple access points
- dynamically alter parking fares based on variations in traffic congestion
- scheduling activities at a liquid bulk-terminal to smoothen peak power demand
- detecting leaky fixtures from water-flow sensors
AWS-IoT (Kinesis et.al.), Spark, Kafka, NoSql and relational-OLAP databases etc. – we know how to create a synergistic blend for your specific purposes.
Things (Firmware and Non-IP connectivity)
Things are at the foundation of the IoT. Constrains is the norm when it comes to creating a realm of Things on the internet. At GS Lab, we tackle these challenges by leveraging our experience and expertise in:
- Choosing the right platform for firmware development (Intel Edison, SiLabs, TI etc.)
- Defining suitable sensor interfaces (SPI, I2C, Modbus, A/D convertors, PWM etc.)
- Selecting the right protocol (BLE, Zigbee, 6LoPAN, Thread, MQTT and CoAP)
Solutions
GS Lab engineered water management solution delivers smarter water management through insights from data to help utilities identify patterns of usage; provide a comparison of an individual installation or community level aggregated trends. This software uses sensor selection, firmware development, choosing appropriate protocols for creating sensor network, enabling the interface between sensor network and internet by means of an edge router. In addition, we have architected cloud services for provisioning and management of the sensors, collection and real-time pre-processing of the data before storing it for future usage.
GS Lab engineered water management solution is a platform that enhances water usage visibility to deliver an advanced level of situational awareness, informed decision-making and collaboration among stakeholders.
Energy Monitoring (Machine Watt)
Home-grown energy monitoring solution – monitor and control power usage of an appliance in a non-invasive way.
Monitoring energy consumption is one of the key data to understand how your building works so you can better exploit potential opportunities for savings.
GS Lab’s home grown energy monitoring solution (Machine Watt) helps monitor and control power delivered to an appliance in a non-invasive way. Use of powerline communication for edge connectivity helps further reduce the solution cost.
This solution uses mobile application with single step provisioning for real time alerts. The server hosted in the cloud gives detailed insights of usage patterns and billing reports for future usage. The machine learning algorithms running on the server help in anomaly detection.
The journey of building robust thing starts with choosing right SoC for development, identifying appropriate sensors.
At GS Lab, we have vast experience of working on various hardware platforms (TI, Microchip, Marvell, SiLabs, Broadcom) and protocols (I2C, SPI, Modbus etc) for interfacing the sensors. With our domain knowledge in connected devices finding an adept solution with edge connectivity which must meet specific requirements of power, distance, bandwidth and secured communication is challenging.
GS Lab has engineered various solutions to cater to different verticals such as industrial automation, home automation and wearable technologies. The solutions developed by GS Lab are robust, scalable and built to meet industry standards
