C-IoTA : Accelerating Industrial IoT Transformation

C-IoTA, the Cluster of IoT Accelerators, is an integrated Industrial IoT platform. The C-IoTA solution consists of an edge component and a cloud component, managing the entire data journey. This journey includes data acquisition, buffering and processing by leveraging Azure services such as IoT Hub, Application Gateway, Azure Key Vault and Azure Container Registry. C-IoTA supports multiple protocols from diverse machines and OT applications, ensuring a consistent approach to identify assets and acquire data. The acquired data is processed in a standardized, normalized and contextualized manner. The unified data structure ensures seamless integration with AI and ML applications. This implementation enables scalability across multiple use cases, including predictive maintenance, vision-based defect detection, data collection, asset management and more.

C-IoTA accelerators function like LEGO blocks. These accelerators are modular, flexible and scalable enabling customized solutions, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and time-to-market (TTM). Each accelerator serves as a building block, offering seamless integration.

Leveraging Nagarro’s expertise in Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0, OT systems, cloud engineering and advanced analytics, C-IoTA delivers a powerful solution enabling enterprises to tackle diverse use cases, including real-time condition monitoring, advanced digital twin implementations and many more. C-IoTA lays a robust foundation for deploying pilot solutions that can be seamlessly scaled to achieve enterprise-level outcomes. The accelerators can adapt and integrate with various operational technology (OT) systems and enterprise systems, including SCADA, ERP and many more while supporting various protocol standards. This approach reduces TCO and TTM by leveraging robust accelerators to streamline the digital transformation journey while maintaining flexibility and control over the solution and data.

1. Accelerator-driven solutions
   C-IoTA employs a cluster of 20+ accelerators, each pre-built yet customizable, enabling rapid development of tailored IIoT ecosystems
2. Seamless integration
   Supports industry-standard protocols like OPC UA, MQTT, FTP, HLS and SMB while enabling interoperability with SCADA, ERP, MES and other enterprise systems
3. Scalability and flexibility
   The modular architecture adapts to business needs, allowing enterprises to scale and evolve their IIoT strategies
4. Enhanced efficiency
   Streamline processes with integration to AI/ML models, enabling predictive analytics, real-time monitoring and energy optimization
5. Industry expertise
   Backed by a proven track record of IIoT deployments across 10+ industries, ensuring reliable and domain-specific solutions

1. Device connectivity
   Configurable connectivity to machines & data servers through a wide range of industry-standard protocols like MQTT, HTTP, FTP, OPC UA, SMB, HLS and more ensuring seamless integration within diverse IIoT ecosystems
2. Custom protocol integration
   Facilitates integration with devices using custom communication protocols
3. Asset management
   Facilitates asset and edge provisioning, hierarchy-based management, optional asset control and real-time tracking of edge device status to ensure operational transparency at factory and enterprise level
4. Edge device lifecycle management
   Enables secure and simple provisioning, onboarding, configuration and decommissioning of devices remotely governed through the web application
5. Edge analytics & processing
   Perform data processing and computing at the edge to reduce latency and cloud dependency for events
6. Remote edge software management
   Remotely manage and update C-IoTA edge software with the latest fixes and features, allowing easy rollback and management
7. Security and access management
   Ensure secure operations with robust user authentication, authorization, encryption and data privacy measures with user management and role-based access
8. Integration with external systems
   Integration with enterprise systems like MES, CMMS, WMS, ERP and ITSM tools for an enterprise-wide view and with other third-party software for device data access and management using APIs