Yanzi Networks, in partnership with Intel, is preparing to launch a plug-and-play “Internet of Things” product that provides cloud-based monitoring of video cameras, temperature and humidity sensors, energy monitors and other data points.
Yanzi is located in Stockholm, Sweden, as is one of Intel’s IoT labs, leading the companies to jointly develop an IoT access point.
The Yanzi gateway device, connected to Wi-Fi, uses IP to communicate with battery-powered sensors and allows the data to be accessed in real time through a mobile application. The product takes less than 10 minutes to set up on a household scale.
CEO Lars Ramfelt told RCR Wireless News that he wanted to “try to put as much functionality as possible inside of the cloud and help the customer by using the cloud efficiently to both manage and install and use the system.”
“That’s why Intel became the natural partner for us,” Ramfelt continued, “as they’re a very strong cloud hardware and platform provider. We started to integrate our system between the gateway and the cloud to allow for absolutely new functionality and very, very easy security implementations.”
Yanzi was created in 2008 and has some systems deployed at construction sites. A product rollout is planned for this quarter and is set to start in the Nordic region then expand to Europe and the U.S, Ramfelt said.
At the Intel IoT lab in Stockholm, Tomas Stralman, Intel’s EMEA application manager, demoed “smart city” technology that uses connected devices to monitor large-scale patterns like traffic flow and congestion.
“You obviously have the possibility to take actions based on these values — how do you steer the traffic through the city?”
The tech is based on a Galileo core and has been deployed in London and Dublin, Stralman said.
“What we are doing here is that, compared to the classic way … we are also engaging with solution providers and other ecosystem partners. We also engage our end customer and try to build the full-value chain.”
Stralman described the smart cities initiative as an effort “to optimize the way people use the city to be able to achieve a more sustainable city.”
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