Xalt: Unleashing the potential of IoT data

Author:Monica Miller Rodgers

Hexagon recently released its latest innovation, Xalt, at HxGN LIVE 2018. Unlike any other offering in the company’s portfolio, though, Xalt is not so much a technology as it is a framework for the convergence of various technologies.

Lauded as a “radical new approach to accelerating digital transformation,” Xalt is Hexagon’s cornerstone in creating Autonomous Connected Ecosystems (ACE) and fast tracking customers to discover the full potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) data. To learn more about this revolutionary concept,Reporterspoke with Josh Cranfill, Hexagon digital transformation advisor for Geosystems and Safety and Infrastructure. Here’s what he had to say.

There is certainly a lot of buzz around Xalt since the announcement, but what is Xalt really?
Xalt是一个新的框架，用于快速跟踪客户利用IoT数据并最终加速其数字化转型之旅的能力。最终，Xalt将支持Hexagon的所有数字解决方案（即，它将出现“标准”/亚搏苹果app嵌入式），并在开发时与未来解决方案启用互操作性。XALT的目的是创建自主连接的生态系统（ACE），该状态通过物理世界的收敛与内置到所有流程的数字和智能的融合无缝连接，从客户网络的核心到所有过程。

How does Xalt work?
我们正在采用我们一直在六角形工作的破坏性技术，并解决了物联网杠杆点，其中包括：亚搏苹果app

• 云管弦乐队

-Delivers Enterprise Security伸向边缘，将B2B与微服务框架和云分析连接

• 完全移动

-Provides a secure and nimble framework that is native iOS- and Android-ready with zero client footprint.

• Edge Computing and connectivity

-Processes, combines and analyses IoT and sensor data at the edge of the network and puts it to work with artificial intelligence (AI)

• Enterprise integration

- 提供插件企业集成到用于遗留连接，数据库和IT系统的单个直观接口

• 无处不在

- 通过分析，可视化以及传感器以及数据融合来支持预测性维护，变化和异常检测

• 高级可视化

看到2 d和3 d数据,萤火虫ing point clouds, optimised for all mainstream OS, mobile, and web platforms

There is quite the distinction with Xalt as a framework and not a platform. What’s the difference?
We’re purposely positioning Xalt as a “framework,” and not a “platform,” which will help it stand out from all the IoT platforms that are primarily sold as generic “toolkits” to do IoT-related things. Xalt is much more than a platform, which is why we are calling it a framework (i.e. an enabler of a connected ecosystem). Typically, a software platform is defined as an environment for developing and running software, but Xalt – much more than such an environment – permits seamless interoperability of foundational, modern, digital capabilities for configuring and operating transformative applications, leveraging Hexagon’s key domains: reality capture, intelligent positioning, situational intelligence and industrial design.

Speaking of those other platforms, what makes Xalt different?
While there are other IoT platform technologies in the market that offer a subset of the partial stand-alone capabilities of Xalt, they don’t offer the full spectrum:

• Permitting process interoperability此外data orchestration (i.e. synchronising everything in the ecosystem, like workflows and machines).
• 与Hexagon在基本领域中的核心技术堆栈的紧亚搏苹果app密集成，例如现实捕获（测量，物理世界输入和数字现实）；亚博ag真人规律智能定位（机器，物体和车辆的位置和控制）；情境智能（对事件，位置和过程的积极了解）；和工业设计（智能数字资产以外的设计）。
• Unique architecture for interoperability and distributed computing where edge computing, edge-cloud orchestration, and AI everywhere are core foundational elements.
• While configurable and horizontally scalable, Xalt is agnostic to other architectural elements (i.e. data, analytic tools, BI platforms, geospatial platforms, mobile platforms) and operating systems of other solutions.
• Xalt will be used to augment the capabilities of Hexagon’s existing solutions, adding significant value to our end users.
• Xalt is tuned to specific vertical applications, as opposed to the holistic approach of other platforms, wherein diverse solutions from different suppliers must be integrated, for both data and processes, or “one-size-fits-all” universal platforms offer limited integrability, efficiency, productivity, and applicability, which typically lead to patchworks that are very difficult to manage.

Xalt的功能如何证明？
Xalt证明在成百上千的功能applications in place for many years (Edge Client, Edge Frontier, Visualisation SDKs, Cloud Mobility and Orchestration, Enterprise Integration, Advanced Analytics/AI modules, etc.). The Xalt framework permits enhanced integration and seamless interoperability of these capabilities, as well as a plug-in with other Hexagon’s capabilities, functionalities, and platforms (e.g. Smart M.app, 5D, Positioning and Navigation Solutions, Reality Capture Sensors and Software, Dispatching, Design and Planning Solutions, etc.). Essentially, Xalt is an evolution of existing solution platforms merged together with a best-in-class innovative architecture and ongoing continuous development with Hexagon’s divisions. For example, we are continuously developing new AI modules as well as data composition frameworks (data-fusion: mining, preparation, compressing, streaming, representation in multi-platforms, etc.) for different applications.

六角形为什么现在亚搏苹果app看到需要创建Xalt？
Xalt代表了Hexagon对其客户的正式承诺，以通过Xalt的功能为Hexagon的全亚搏苹果app部投资组合提供了重点，努力和研发。最终，Xalt将支持Hexagon的所有数字解决方案（即，它将出现“标准”/亚搏苹果app嵌入式），并在全球多个垂直行业中的深层领域专业知识借鉴了未来解决方案的互操作性。Xalt的某些功能已经嵌入了Hexagon的解决方案中，并组合或独立。亚搏苹果app这种破坏性技术的融合，再加上Hexagon的深入领域专业知识和解决方案，最终将使Hexagon的所有客户迅速适应技术转亚搏苹果app变和创新，新的商业模式以及不断变化的营销需求。