UPDATED 12:11 EDT / APRIL 03 2014

Intel & Axeda team up to develop Industrial Internet solutions

medium_47436435The Internet of Things has seen plenty of headlines as consumer awareness and adoption grows, what with wearable tech, smart homes and smart cars all driving this, but it’s with the Industrial Internet where the real opportunity lies. Also known as M2M technology, this trend has the potential to impact dozens of multi-billion dollar industries, including oil and gas, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, agriculture and more.

As such, no big tech firm can afford to ignore the Industrial Internet for a moment longer. That’s why chip maker Intel has made such a big splash recently with its $740 million investment in Cloudera, a move that Wikibon senior analyst Jeff kelly says is closely tied to its Internet of Things’ ambitions. This comes after its acquisition of health tracker maker BASIS Science last month, and has now been followed up with the announcement of a new partnership with Axeda, which offers cloud-based software for managing connected products and machines in the Industrial Internet.

Intel and Axeda are teaming up to develop M2M solutions for the energy, industrial and transportation sectors, with Intel’s Galileo-board and Quark SoC X1000 Series chips helping to accelerate this, and at the same time ensure compatibility with Axeda’s Machine Cloud software.

Todd DeSisto, Axeda president and CEO, elaborates further:

“The Internet of Things is enabling and accelerating new services and capabilities, and Intel’s vision to push into lower power regimes, combined with high temp capabilities is a game-changer for industrial, energy and transportation. By enabling Intel processor and communication technology to seamlessly work with the Axeda Machine Cloud, we are offering entirely new building blocks for IoT delivery.”

This deal is all part of Intel’s larger bet on IoT and the Industrial Internet, which Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly notes is crucial to its long-term growth. Writing for SiliconANGLE earlier this week, Kelly outlined why Intel’s investment in Cloudera was also driven in part by its IoT ambitions:

“Intel can’t afford to lose the enterprise market. The PC market is in decline, and the enterprise, along with mobile, is key to Intel’s longterm growth. The world of enterprise computing is moving from one of proprietary, scale-up systems to open source/open core systems and distributed architectures where data is the new code,” wrote Kelly.

“With this investment, Intel has an influential stake in the leading Hadoop vendor (by revenue) and will tightly integrate its x86 architecture with Cloudera’s platform. The more nodes in production the more chips Intel ships.”

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Intel wants its chips to power the Industrial Internet

Intel’s partnership with Axeda is driven by similar motivations – it’s all about selling more chips, and that’s why it’s working to make them compatible with whatever technology people want to use.

Intel’s Quark chips are built for applications where lower power takes priority over high performance, making them ideal not only for wearable devices, but also for applications in the Industrial Internet. The company says that its Quark SoC X1000 brings flexibility for higher levels of integration, as well as lower costs and lower power consumption for connected devices. Its technology also adds the error-correcting code, industrial temperature range and integrated security that the industrial, transportation and energy industries require.

In other words, Intel’s chips are an ideal partner for Axeda’s Machine Cloud, helping it to meet some of the Industrial Internet’s key platform requirements as outlined by Wikibon in it’s report, “The Industrial Internet and Big Data Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges“, last year. Officially known as the Axeda IoT Cloud Service, it provides a scalable and secure IoT data integration and application development platform, as well as connectivity over wired or wireless networks and out-of-the-box device and asset management to reduce the cost and complexity of implementing IoT solutions.

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