We have developed a GIS-based FTTx strategic network planning and cost evaluation tool, Smart Strategic Planner that supports Business Case Analysis & Techno-economic Decisions. Smart Strategic Planner is suitable for automatically developing FTTx network design variants capable providing state of the art broadband services optimized according to different aspects. It supports the experts participating in the project preparation of an FTTx network development. Smart Strategic Planner allows them to develop optimal FTTx topology and architecture plans, plan variants, and analyze plan variants of a project site (settlement, part of a settlement or groups of settlements) based on local map, available infrastructure and population data. Smart Strategic Planner helps engineers in finding the optimal FTTx network design strategy. Detailed GIS based plans and cost calculations are ready to use for equipment and construction procurements and for the overall management of the deployment project.
Most recently, we started dealing with the topics of the Industrial Internet, IoT and Industry 4.0.
The main idea of Industrial Internet that the solutions of information technology and telecommunications developed in the recent decades (miniature and high-performance computers, networking and mobile communications, cloud services, sensor technologies, etc.) should return in mass and trend-like to the production industry and other systems using technical physical equipment and processes, such as transport, energy, utilities, infrastructure, health and agriculture. The goal is to build far better design, operation, optimization and maintenance solutions than before based on long-term and real-time observation by using complex analytical procedures.
As a result of this trend is new, so-called. “cyber-physical” systems would be created, ensuring much more detailed and accurate intelligence, remote management, fault tolerance and optimization comparing to the nowadays typical level and as a result the following major societal benefits may occur:
- Improvement in the quality of products and services
- Increase in energy efficiency, productivity, organization and utilization
- Protection against failures and high level of tolerance (e.g., in patient care, transport and energy systems)
- Reducing the environmental load.
With our partners, we are working on the development of a managed IoT framework that enables production companies to quickly and cost-effectively transform or expand their operations in accordance with the fourth-generation digital principles. The framework allows the deployment of distributed network of sensors and controllers on an industrial scale by providing uniform and closely integrated software components for long-term operation and efficient use of the networks. Our main goal is to support the diversity of sensor and control communication techniques, which is suitable for implementing public and private, fixed and wireless, large and small data traffic networks, as well as those who use them mixed. A distinctive feature of the system is to guarantee increased operational and data security at all levels of the system hierarchy, and its novelty is the ability to operate efficiently, in a private and service provider environment, covering multiple fields of application.
