Monnit ALTA Advanced Edge Gateway

Monnit’s ALTA Advanced Edge Gateway aggregates data from feature-rich Monnit wireless sensors to any cloud provider, such as Amazon AWS. Coupling the prominent MQTTS protocol and what is claimed to be the IoT’s broadest sensor range, the edge gateway is designed to fulfil a key IoT mission of making deployments more agile and productive.

The expansive Internet of Things is inundating businesses with billions of data points. The edge gateway helps these businesses cope by decentralising data processing and bringing this processing closer to data-generating ‘things’. Firms will benefit from spontaneous analytics, instant action based on metrics and support for enhanced situation-based applications.

The edge gateway features a web interface for configuring and managing Monnit wireless sensors, as well as designating MQTT brokers. As the Ethernet-based gateway receives sensor data, the gateway ‘fingerprints’ the data with a cryptographic validation stamp. This authenticated data is then transmitted to a cloud broker (or multiple brokers), where it arrives in a standard format. The edge gateway’s integrated macros enable data configuration in virtually any format, such as JSON or XML, making it a powerful tool for data analysis and action.