The Internet of Things places many new demands on IT infrastructure. Our solutions are designed to transcend those demands and provide your business with a platform ready to meet the needs of digitisation.
Through our group partnerships, we can deliver end to end capabilities, to support your business and enable your digital transformation.
Sound networking infrastructure that meets the challenges of power, big data and security is fundamental to an effective IoT strategy.
We can help accelerate your transition to an intelligent, IoT-based infrastructure through our broad portfolio of networking technologies.
Our network infrastructure solutions support both IT and OT standards and protocols.
This enables businesses to converge multiple proprietary systems onto a single IP network that is secure, reliable and scalable, increasing agility, operational efficiency, visibility and security.
The question of whether a ‘Thing’ should be connected is often outweighed by the practicalities of doing so. Key barriers can include the availability of suitable connectivity (and bandwidth) in the location where the device will be located as well as finding a power source that has sufficient longevity and powering for the device itself.
Capita has access to all major network footprints to offer a highly resilient and diverse network footprint. In addition, our capabilities include:
Full mobile coverage, including multi-carrier SIMs
Paging capabilities, for one-way traffic, offering low power requirements
Satellite capability, for coverage in geographically remote areas
SmallCell, to boost mobile signal in blackspots
Low Power Wide Area (LPWA), connecting devices that transmit very small quantities of data with very low battery drain
20.9bn - The number of 'things' that Gartner forecasts will be connected worldwide by 2020. This includes 250m connected cars with automated driving capabilities.
Big Data is a major cause for concern for many businesses. Transmission, security and storage are all overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data created.
Fog computing can help mitigate these concerns. Using spare compute power at the edge to rationalise data according to pre-defined policies, it allows you to save the data you need and disregard the rest, reducing both bandwidth and storage requirements, making analysis and intelligence a simpler task.
There can be little doubt that IoT raises new security concerns which must be addressed.
Our ‘Network as a Sensor’ approach embeds security directly into your network infrastructure, providing accurate, real-time view of the network fabric, endpoints, mobile devices, applications, virtual environments and the cloud.
Use the intelligence gained to identify and contain malicious traffic quickly and effectively.
Not only does your network need to be fit for transmitting, rationalising and storing your data securely, but, through recent innovations, it can also be used as a data source in its own right.
Using existing wireless infrastructure, we can provide insight into footfall, passers-by, conversion and bounce rates, dwell times, return visits and frequency to deliver a snapshot of customer behaviour in your physical spaces.
This can also be combined with your own staff or customer data and social media data to create user behaviour profiles, identify individuals in realtime and deliver a personalised experience.
The art of the possible #4 - The informed handyman White goods manufacturers are using IoT to deliver better service. When a washing machine develops a fault, internal connected sensors mean by the time the repair man arrives, he will already know what the problem is and will have the right parts with him to fix it first time. This approach is allowing manufacturers to evolve their businesses from a product to a service orientated model.
IoT is not just about using existing data sources, but about sourcing data from devices that were previously ‘dumb’.
The ability to add intelligent sensors from everything to new pieces of machinery, to production lines, all the way through to living animals – and people – is central to gaining new data and from that, new perspective. At Capita, our capabilities include:
Intelligent sensor deployment
Production line analysis
Asset tracking via RFID tagging or mobile/GPS
Asset lifecycle management
The ability to collate data from a multitude of sources and turn it into sound business intelligence to inform strategy sits at the heart of the IoT proposition.
At Capita, we have multiple business teams specialising in very different sorts of data analytics to deliver the following:
Business and Learning Analytics
Planning Solutions
Predictive Modelling
Business Process Orchestration
By using IoT for predictive maintenance and quality control during the manufacturing process, BMW reduced the scrap rate of defective vehicles by 80%
Buildings are increasingly being asked to perform better – environmentally, economically and socially.
Many are already equipped with sophisticated access control and building management systems but are yet to bring those capabilities together into a single infrastructure view.
Whether investing in a new build, or retrofitting an existing building, Capita has a wealth of capabilities to support you:
Intelligent Infrastructure Management Systems, to unify the management of cabling infrastructures
Connectivity – wireless, radio, line of sight, Li-Fi
Digital Ceilings, combining Lighting, Air conditioning, WiFi, Smoke detectors and Fire systems into a single IP-controlled unit
IP Surveillance and CCTV
IP Access control and security
Energy management and metering