Large IoT device provider’s applications engineer easily moves stalled reference design to production at scale

Problem

A global IoT device provider’s applications engineer uses Node-RED to develop reference designs for their customers in the industrial and manufacturing sector. Since Node-RED is easy to use, the engineer can quickly build reference design demos for customers. However, scaling up reference designs from a few devices to hundreds or thousands of devices is not possible because Node-RED needs to be installed and updated on a per-device basis. For this reason, customers today have to redesign the solution in a traditional IoT development framework which requires coding, containers, CI/CD, and maintenance of a complex cloud environment. This often stalls customer adoption.

Solution

Being familiar with Node-RED, the applications engineer was able to import their reference design into Prescient Designer within one-hour. This included incorporating the edge device application they had previously developed. The applications engineer then enhanced the solution with cloud-based analytics and dashboard within one-week. The applications engineer then shared the solution with the customer remotely via Prescient Designer, and they were able to discuss and improve the solution in real-time. Finally, the applications engineers scaled the project to a facility containing 90 edge devices with just a few clicks.

Result

By using Prescient Designer, the IoT device provider helped the customer to deploy an enterprise-class IoT solution quickly. This accelerated time-to-market, increased sales, and improved customer satisfaction. Prescient Designer ensured the customer with an agile and scalable solution, and it helped the IoT device provider to sell faster and sell more.