Convergence Breakthrough

Until now, it’s been impossible to interactively adjust and visualise changes to assumptions across ‘siloed’ operations, and dynamic external variables. By harnessing Big Data and leveraging Fusion Modelling, decision makers get precise information on how to optimise performance.

Sentient Hubs – Bringing it all Together

Uncertainty affects everything we do: How much we pay for power, how long we sit in traffic, the cost of our groceries.

Until now, predicting the impact of external variables on performance has been very difficult and slow. Uncertainty adds cost at every point along the value chain. It affects what we pay for the end product.

Because inter-dependent systems are managed in isolation, they fail to reflect what’s really going on. In reality, individual systems operate within larger ‘ecosystems’ both within and beyond the enterprise.

There is no edge, there are no boundaries.

Supply factors are affected by a range of upstream variables, and in turn they affect the next steps in the value chain. Likewise, uncertainty relating to demand can lead to higher levels of stock being produced, handled and stored - embedding extra contingency and cost.

The problem has been how to ‘join the dots’ and generate whole-of-system virtual environments that act and react seamlessly - like the real world.

Convergence is a fusion of technologies that seamlessly blends physical and digital ecosystems. It allows us to bring it all together like never before. To resolve long-standing, real-world, questions.

By leveraging Convergence, Sentient Hubs offer breakthrough performance with far less waste.

Sentient Hubs enable the shift from reactive to proactive management. We can now anticipate factors affecting supply and demand to improve performance, risk, and costs.

Convergence – Beyond Big Data

State-of-the-Art systems now utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance performance. However, AI falls short where data is not available. By augmenting the latest AI techniques with breakthrough physics-based Fusion Modelling, we can anticipate the impact of dynamic external factors, and pre-emptively adapt to changing conditions.

• We can improve services by anticipating congestion
• We can reduce power costs by anticipating demand
• We can re-route fleets to burn less fuel and save time

Whether it’s at an enterprise, infrastructure, or city-wide scale, Sentient Hubs break down the barriers to deliver ecosystem-wide connectivity and higher performance.

Convergence will Drive Industry 4.0

Over the next 5 years, technology is set to dramatically alter the competitiveness of every industrial sector. It’s being called the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the foundations are already in place.

The raw ingredients - Big Data, Internet of Things, and Cloud Computing - are driving an explosion in ‘Smart’ technologies across every industry, from agriculture to space mining. The real prize, however, is what the possibilities look like when we 'join the dots' and bring it all together. Convergence.

It’s not about Big Data. It’s about improving performance and risk.

• Operational gains where reactive processes can now pre-emptively adapt to changing conditions.
• Improved confidence in strategic decisions where data is limited or unavailable.

Sentient Hubs: Breakthrough performance with far less waste.

Modular, scalable and vendor agnostic. Sentient Hubs better anticipate supply and demand – at every point along the value chain.

Sensors, systems and vendors change. Sentient Hubs’ open architecture creates a common operating platform for plug & play flexibility.

• Harness vast data across disparate systems & silos - single point of truth
• Accurately predict and visualise interactions across complex environments
• Enable whole-of-system optimisation

Credit: David Lucido

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