Australian IoT service provider Bigmate has added Tibco’s Jaspersoft business intelligence and reporting software to its IoT platforms for vehicle telematics and for asset monitoring and management.
Bigmate’s telematics platform provides real-time vehicle tracking and related features and has XML-based APIs for integration. Bigmate’s IoT platform, developed over the past two years, is designed for large numbers of devices that generate small data messages.
“Bigmate is leveraging Tibco Jaspersoft as their IoT and reporting solution to enhance the telematics business, while also delivering expandability and extensibility for their rapidly growing IoA [internet of assets] solution,” Tibco says.
Bigmate said the emergence of new applications that generate large volumes of streaming data had created a critical need for customer-facing dashboards, visualisation and reporting tools able to provide real-time intelligence to solve business problems.
“Tibco Jaspersoft embedded BI has enabled Bigmate to consume IoT and IoA data and blend it to present a holistic view of all the information being collected from customer sensors,” the company said.
Bigmate general manager, Brett Orr, told IoTAustraliathat prior to implementing JasperSoft, the company had to employ custom-development to meet clients’ reporting requirements.
“Jaspersoft has enabled them to get information a lot quicker and it has enabled use to adapt to requirements and change in business a lot quicker as well, and it has enabled us to deliver on scale a lot quicker,” he said.
“We had the capability previously but it was based on code development so every new report we needed to do was coded by a developer. It required experienced developers. It required a formal test plan and verification which all added to time in delivering to the client.
“Now we use our platforms coupled with Jaspersoft to say ‘what are you trying to achieve what is the business outcome?’ and then we analyse that and give them the reports they need. They don’t have to have the resources on board. That is where we have hit the sweet spot.”
He said applications the company had developed for clients included combining a video overlay and artificial intelligence to improve safety in the facilities of a large manufacturer and an equipment hire company.
“We monitor the movement of people and equipment and use a neural network to monitor the movements of vehicles and people and predict collisions. Then we can set off an alarm, or stop the vehicle.”
Among the options the company had looked at, Orr said: “We were looking for speed to market, affordability and ease of change and reporting and Jaspersoft sat one or two in every one of the bands we were looking at.
Tibco acquired Jaspersoft in 2014 saying: “Jaspersoft’s commercial open source business model and embedded business intelligence suite allows application developers to embed highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics into their applications. These tools give customers the ability to gain insight from multiple data sources and ultimately make better decisions.”