(AOF) – Boostheat, a French industrial player in energy efficiency, announces the launch of Caliper, the first demonstrator of its IoT Edge solution, dedicated to optimizing the energy efficiency of products. With Caliper, industrial companies now have the opportunity to access a new IoT Edge software solution that allows them to optimize the performance of their products and their maintenance operations, while reducing costs and deploying more efficient solutions. .
To this end, Caliper, its first technological demonstrator, is specially designed to highlight this innovative solution on a first application case: the optimization of energy consumption.
Caliper is positioned as a tailor-made solution allowing manufacturers to guarantee the energy efficiency of their machine parks. The device includes a box specially designed for the acquisition and conversion of data from machines or industrial products, a powerful local calculation module (Edge Computing) as well as a touch screen serving as a user interface.
Associated with energy sensors such as electricity, gas, heat in particular, Caliper analyzes in detail the energy consumption and production profile of a machine. This solution aims to support manufacturers in optimizing or demonstrating the efficiency of their machines in terms of energy management.
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