Build Smart(er) Cities Faster With Machinechat JEDI One

Whether you live in San Francisco, Dallas, Raleigh, or Thief River Falls, deploying IoT technology in a city park, school building, or local highway can enable cities and towns to better manage resources, ensure public safety, and enhance residents’ quality of life.

The problem? Deploying technology isn’t for the faint of heart – and making the wrong choice can be costly both in time and money. When the resources involved are taxpayer-funded, the results can be even more scrutinized for cost, return on investment, viability, and performance.

Machinechat JEDI One all-in-one IoT data management software is a single on-premises binary solution that enables IoT developers and solution architects to build field-ready prototypes and proofs of concept quickly and inexpensively - in hours versus weeks or months.

JEDI One’s pre-configured and custom data collectors allow system integrators and developers to collect data from virtually any device or sensor – without the need to spend precious time and resources coding custom software or having to learn domain-specific or proprietary programming languages. Once your data collectors are set, JEDI One’s ready-to-use data visualization, rules, monitoring, and storage are easily set up through point-and-click and drag-and-drop menus.

Edge-based rule features allow notifications to be sent (via email or SMS) as conditions occur or on a schedule. Using custom action plugins, developers can also enable JEDI One to trigger external scripts or send data to other applications.

Local data storage allows developers to maintain complete control over their data – what is stored (and for how long), where it goes, and who has access to it. Not to mention the significant savings obtained from not having to send all your data to the cloud.

Examples of use cases include:

• Monitoring pump stations to ensure full operation during periods of highway construction (and prevent flooding).
• Maintenance monitoring of landscaping infrastructure and systems to avoid dangerous soil erosion that can impact the safety of local highways and roads.
• Enabling alerts when weather conditions require drivers to adjust speed and exercise caution on vulnerable highway and roadway sections.
• Monitoring refrigeration units in public schools and health clinics to ensure food and vaccine safety and efficacy.
• Environmental monitoring to enable efficient use of water, power, and other resources in public parks and other municipal venues.
• Tracking hand sanitization stations in public venues to ensure that soap levels are not depleted.
• Monitoring access to sensitive city storage facilities.

Being able to deliver field-ready prototypes and proofs of concepts faster and more inexpensively allows developers to engage key decision-makers in more quickly assessing potential project benefits and defining project business objectives. The result? Faster time to deployment and ROI realization.

Machinechat® JEDI One is available in Windows 10, Mac OS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, and BeagleBoard® BeagleBone versions and is priced (at the time this blog was written) at $39-$79 per premium license. In addition, JEDI One for Raspberry Pi is included as part of DigiKey’s all-in-one IoT QuickStart Environmental Monitoring Kit for Raspberry Pi.

To learn more about what Machinechat and DigiKey are doing for smart cities, view our three-part series, City Digital.