TCS Connected Universe Platform
An edge-to-cloud, enterprise-grade, full-function industrial IoT platform
Industry
Manufacturing
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Highlights
- TCS Connected Universe Platform helps customers establish connected value chains and reduce cost, enhance production efficiencies, and increase yield in a sustainable way.
- The platform helps ingest IoT data generated by an asset and integrates it with industrial IT-OT data. High-speed data streams are then analyzed using AI and ML on the edge as well as on the cloud.
- The platform delivers data-driven cognitive insights on private or public cloud environments and powers applications across industries such as manufacturing, energy, logistics, and transportation.
Overview
Internet of things (IoT) has the power to transform industries and modernize business processes.
Worldwide spending on IoT is expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2026, up from $806 billion in 2023, as per IDC. A significant part of this growth is expected to be contributed by industrial companies that are digitalizing operations and transforming business models to improve efficiency, remain competitive, better customer experience, and trim costs. The number of connected devices is expected to double to 30 billion by 2030, from 15 billion, at present.
There are, however, roadblocks. Connecting diverse legacy assets, managing interoperability of multiple industrial control systems and protocols, handling an increasing number of sensors and devices, and putting in place a robust cybersecurity system are some of the challenges these companies face as they embark on this journey.
Despite these challenges, delivering business value remains the top priority. Improved data engineering, advanced analytics for relevant and contextual insights both at the edge and on the cloud, and significant improvement in reliability and uptime of industrial systems are key to justifying the investments required.
Global businesses are using the TCS Connected Universe Platform for connected value chains to reduce cost, enhance production efficiencies, develop new service models, increase yield, and develop energy-efficient sustainable environments.
TCS Connected Universe Platform
Solution
TCS Connected Universe Platform powers future-ready businesses with state-of-the-art IoT technology that delivers on industry use-cases with proven, purpose-built, and domain-rich applications.
It delivers an out-of-the-box device and asset connectivity, high-velocity data ingestion, advanced analytics at the edge and on the cloud and a rapid application authoring environment.
The platform offers an efficient suite of IoT components at the edge, which have notably small hardware footprint and can run on commodity servers. The IoT components are available on extremely resource constrained microcontroller units (MCU) endpoints as well.
The platform has a library of plug-and-play artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms for intelligent inferencing and accurate insights from data, enabling real-time decisions. Edge processing at the MCU or endpoint delivers almost the entire power of the platform securely at the data source.
The platform also enables a single, unified view of the assets spread across multiple plants in different geographical locations. The platform provides out-of-the-box visualization using intuitive dashboards to help monitor asset performance in real time.
TCS Connected Universe Platform can be hosted on any private and public cloud. The platform comprises service components which can be deployed and scaled up and down independently.
It also comes loaded with several verticalized applications that implement a variety of industry use cases:
Predictive maintenance and servitization: Industrial IoT-based equipment connectivity, real-time asset data ingestion, analytics around fault codes and lead indicators, and a built-in health index computation engine enable superior equipment reliability and uptime, improving overall equipment efficiency. The health index predicts failures based on fault codes and lead indicators data.
Golden batch: It provides a built-in model for process manufacturers to compute the batch score while production is in progress and achieve the golden batch. That helps optimizing production yields.
Clever EnergyTM: The solution uses AI-ML to monitor energy demands, usage patterns, and detect anomalies to help enterprises realize their sustainability objectives.
Lab of the future: The platform supports process manufacturers in improving the efficiency of research and formulation labs by harnessing diverse and complex data originating from state-of-the-art equipment.
Benefits
TCS Connected Universe Platform helps industry players accelerate digital transformation.
The key benefits are:
- Increase in service revenue and reduction of maintenance cost.
- Enhanced overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
- Yield optimization and operating cost reduction in the process industry.
- Reduction in energy consumption and carbon footprint.
- Increase in research efficiency and process development in the process industry.
Accelerate digital transformation
The TCS advantage
Backed by decades of experience and domain expertise across industries, TCS is well-positioned to be a business transformation partner.
TCS brings the following differentiators to an engagement:
Continuous innovation: TCS has 19 laboratories across the globe for IoT specific development and solutions that cover cybersecurity, AI, and robotics, among others.
Strategic alliances: TCS has built a customer experience center in collaboration with Intel to showcase technologies including 3D printing, virtual reality, and IoT-driven solutions to customers. It also has partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft, and Google to enhance its IoT services portfolio.
Entrusted digital transformation partner: With decades of experience in IT services and business consulting, TCS is adeptly placed to deliver complex IoT projects by handling multiple data sources and ensuring seamless integration of the IoT platform with customer backend systems.