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Artisantech Computer Engineering Co. Ltd.

QNAP NAS helped Artisantech deploy IoT applications for its client to optimize energy monitoring and management

  • Background

    Artisantech was established in 2004 and focuses on integrating different systems. The company has long been investing in control devices embedded with ARM-based microcomputers, as well as short-range wireless communication software and hardware. It provides solutions (for industrial control, environmental control, smart homes, and more) using analog circuit design and development of single-chip and embedded platform applications, thereby helping clients develop their own embedded control devices, including IoT, M2M, and Wireless Sensing Network (WSN) products and solutions.

  • Challenges

    Artisantech was commissioned by the New Taipei City Department of Education to upgrade the energy monitoring and management system in its education center, and to introduce a new server.

    The original energy monitoring and management system at the education center runs on a PC-based server. The machine has been worn out from prolonged usage, and is difficult to maintain. As such, breakdowns are common, resulting in frequent disruptions.

    There is also the pressing issue of insufficient storage space. As the energy monitoring and management system generates a large amount of data, the education center needs a sufficiently large space to store this data for downstream analysis. Existing storage devices are no longer serviceable and must be replaced. The education center also planned to set up an integrated management platform that facilitates real-time monitoring of various types of energy equipment (such as water meters, electricity meters, and solar panels). This allows them to quickly obtain status updates of various types of energies, allowing them to make use of data and analysis results in their educational guided tours and presentations, to educate the public on the proper usage of energies and impacts of sustainable development on the environment.

    Having understood the client’s needs, Artisantech began to plan and improve on the solution. Their strategy was to deploy a central server in the client’s energy monitoring and management system for centralized management of energy devices, and for proper storage of data from various energy sources.

Solution

Artisantech used a QNAP TVS-471 as a new server in its client’s energy monitoring and management system. It features QNAP’s proprietary IoT private cloud development kit - QIoT Suite Lite - for building IoT apps, as well as monitoring and managing various energy devices. The TVS-471 is powered by an Intel® Haswell processor, and supports SATA 6Gb/s drives and 10GbE networks. This enables the smooth operation of resource-demanding tasks and applications, thereby making it a powerful, highly-reliable, and scalable NAS solution.

  • QIoT Suite Lite for deploying IoT applications

    The TVS-471 supports QIoT Suite Lite, and allows flexible use of device gateways, rules engines and dashboard tools to deploy IoT services.

    QIoT Suite Lite supports multiple communication protocols (such as MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP), and is integrated with IoT sensors, which transmit data generated by various energy devices in the education center to the device gateway. This data is then interpreted and processed through the Node-RED rules engine. Finally the analysis results and the status of each energy device are presented in image form in a data dashboard to facilitate real-time monitoring and management by center staff.

  • HDMI output presents all information at a glance

    The TVS-471 supports QNAP's exclusive QvPC technology and outputs data stored on the NAS to an HDMI display. This allows the guides at the center to present the data for each device and the analysis results while explaining energy usage to the visitors as part of their energy education efforts.

  • Valuable IoT data is saved in a large storage space

    The TVS-471 supports four internal hard drives, and can be further connected to QNAP’s highly-efficient SAS storage expansion devices to create a large-capacity storage center that can accommodate the data collected by QIoT Suite Lite.

Results

Artisantech introduced a powerful TVS-471 into its client’s energy monitoring and management system, and was able to make use of the QNAP NAS’s secure computing platform and the storage space within the machine itself to create exclusive, highly-efficient IoT applications in the most cost-effective manner.

According to Mr. Lu Yunwen, a senior project manager at Artisantech, “The client found the QNAP IoT private cloud platform solution highly satisfactory, as they are now able to make use of and manage their energy devices with greater efficiency. Not only are they able to perform real-time monitoring, this data can also be incorporated into their presentation of the facility to the visitors, making the presentation more interesting and educational.”

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