IoT solution remotely monitors living wall health
Sagegreenlife first to install Azure IoT Central with Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Edge Connector technology as the solution becomes generally available.
Sagegreenlife, an award-winning creator of natural “Living Walls” spaces, recently launched a “Build Your Own IoT” (BYOIoT) solution which uses Microsoft Azure IoT Central and NetCloud Edge Connector from Cradlepoint, the global leader in cloud-delivered LTE and 5G Ready wireless network edge solutions.
This solution is the foundation of the Sagegreenlife IoT strategy, allowing it to remotely monitor the health of thousands of plants at customer locations. Sagegreenlife can now analyze its Living Walls in real time, identify problems and alert maintenance teams to protect plant health. With improved efficiency and cost structure, more products can be built at competitive prices.
The Cradlepoint NetCloud Edge Connector provides a simple-to-setup, reliable and secure edge-to-cloud connection for sending IoT data directly into Azure IoT Central and runs on select Cradlepoint wireless router solutions for branch, mobile and IoT networking.
This solution enables Sagegreenlife to collect performance data from IoT-enabled sensors installed into its irrigation systems, and transmit those data via Cradlepoint NetCloud and LTE routers to a monitoring application hosted on Azure IoT Central.
Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Service and IoT routers securely encrypt sensor data for transmission, maintaining a robust firewall and leveraging LTE cellular networking, so the solution operates without using customer Wi-Fi.
Data is passed directly to the Sagegreenlife monitoring application in Azure IoT Central, where it is used to improve customer service and to drive greater efficiency for the business.
By adopting Microsoft Azure IoT Central and the Cradlepoint IoT technology platforms, Sagegreenlife has improved time-to-value of its IoT project by reducing development complexity and IT integration. Azure IoT Central enabled the company to build a reliable, scalable and secure IoT solution that could be easily customized and updated. NetCloud Manager allowed Sagegreenlife to configure, deploy and manage the network of connected living walls without adding IT staff.
This approach enabled the company to build and implement an IoT solution that was easy to update, expand and customize while ensuring secure and reliable connectivity. As almost every Sagegreenlife customer environment is different, their vision is to take everything they know and remotely control the walls on an individual basis.
So by deploying secure, reliable and managed wireless connectivity - the foundation for any successful IoT strategy - Sagegreenlife can now offer additional services to customers in the future that ride on top of their flexible IoT connectivity and application environments.
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