Rittal partners with Atos and Siemens to develop Intelligent Edge Data Center

June 24, 2019 - Rittal announced a global strategic partnership with Atos and Siemens to develop intelligent edge datacenter solutions for smart industries, smart cities, smart retail, energy & utilities, and public sectors.

The ‘Intelligent Edge Data Center’ (IEDC) is a configurable datacenter solution that enables companies to process IoT data in real-time using solutions such as MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens, the BullSequana Edge computing server and the BullSequana S server from Atos, Atos Codex Cloud Industrial Supervision (CIS) and thus optimize their entire value chain with a data analytics solution.

The OT Infrastructure is developed by Rittal and is designed as an edge datacenter:. From the IT perspective, Atos and Siemens’ software applications for IoT and Edge solutions will serve for data collection, computation and data analytics.

The IEDC is available in different performance classes, from a wall box or a single IT rack up to a turnkey-ready and scalable datacenter container.

The IEDC is designed for companies that have already started the digital transformation and need to process large amounts of real-time data in smart production environments or other areas. Further application examples can be found in industries ranging from smart retail to smart healthcare but also in smart cities or in the expansion of 5G mobile networks in which the IEDC can carry out data processing directly at the mobile base station.

The IEDC is a secure, standardized, industrialized solution. It can run autonomously in non-datacenter environments and there is no need for a white room nor for local IT teams to operate it. The solution comes with Siemens’ MindSphere readiness (an IoT operating system by Siemens) to benefit from IoT dedicated applications both in the cloud or on-premise. It supports the MindSphere architecture running in a cloud-based or an on-premise implementation.

The IEDC embeds the BullSequana Edge server for computer vision and IoT datalake from Atos, Atos Codex CIS software which forms the IoT backbone, but it enables also to inter-connect several other sensors within a single IEDC. The IEDC could be inter-connected to establish a swarm as a meshed edge datacenter network. This enables the progressive deployment of business applications and solutions. The relevant data of each node of the network is available on top-level dashboards used for insight by monitoring, controlling and optimization using analytics.

The following list shows which components are supplied by the individual partners:

• Atos: IT infrastructure such as BullSequana Edge, BullSequana S, Atos Codex CIS, MindSphere (Apps), Atos Business Applications & Services, Predictive Maintenance, 3^rd-party AI applications and overall supervision.
• Rittal: OT Infrastructure such as edge datacenter, power, cooling, basic monitoring and safety and housing.
• Siemens: Technical infrastructure such as advanced monitoring and safety, power protection, security and IT-infrastructure like building management system and MindSphere (platform & apps).

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