The Dublin Port Tunnel, a €752m project and the largest civil engineering project in Ireland, required a comprehensive and fully integrated security management solution. The tunnel, which spans 5.6 km and acts as a link between Dublin Port and the national motorway network, needed a single security management system located at the main on-site control room to centrally monitor and control the entire tunnel. The goal was to create a safe facility and environment for tunnel users. The scale of the project necessitated a high-end security solution that incorporated CCTV, intruder alarms, intercoms, and central monitoring via a single Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.

KeyBank, one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, embarked on a national digital bank initiative following the acquisition of Laurel Road, a digital consumer lending business. The initiative aimed to build a digital bank focused on healthcare professionals looking to refinance student loans and buy homes. A significant challenge was reducing the time to market for new products by democratizing data and decoupling systems across the IT landscape. Like many large enterprises, KeyBank had a variety of vendor applications, custom applications, and other systems that were tightly coupled to one another. New projects often required developing specific point-to-point integrations for exchanging data, which did not address the needs of other downstream systems that could benefit from the same data.

M&T Bank, a Fortune 500 American bank, was focused on transforming its digital footprint and embracing agility to meet constantly evolving customer needs. However, with digital transformation came the need for digital trust and security. The bank relied on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates to securely connect devices and applications across its digital footprint. Over the years, technology and cryptography evolved significantly, creating new challenges. M&T Bank initially partnered with Keyfactor in 2010 to migrate from SHA-1 to SHA-2 and re-build their entire PKI. However, as the number of devices and workloads expanded rapidly, so did the number of certificates required across their environment. The increasing volume and speed at which certificates were issued made it difficult to keep track of them.

Manufacturers are facing risky challenges associated with complex visual inspection activities. Many human inspectors, operators and engineers are needed at each manufacturer. They have a full workload of repetitive tasks aimed at identifying hundreds of defects. This results in major plant labour costs, issues with inspection accuracy and consistency, a need for employee training and potential health problems for inspections in hazardous areas.

At Litmus, the biggest challenge the customers face is access to the data they need to fuel machine learning and analytics models. Large scale manufacturers come to Litmus looking for the fastest way to connect to their assets and send data to the cloud. Companies not only need to send data to the cloud to create machine learning models, but they also need to deploy those models back at the edge with a unified edge-to-cloud platform. 

One of Europe’s largest manufacturing companies, delivering billions of dollars of industrial equipment globally, faced the challenge of maintaining accurate digital bills of materials (BOMs) for its complex assets. These BOMs, which are crucial for creating asset digital twins for monitoring, diagnosis, and predictive maintenance, were difficult to maintain due to downstream changes in asset configuration not being reflected in engineering drawings. The company was spending over $100 million annually, employing hundreds of technical specialists to manually extract information from various unstructured data sources to create these BOMs. This process was not only costly but also time-consuming, often taking months to create a single digital BOM. The manufacturer was in need of a scalable, automated solution that could perform this parsing and analysis across all its product lines.

As the company expanded into new geographies and areas of therapy, existing patient management platform performance was unable to support future business needs. This resulted in end user satisfaction being compromised.Some of the business challenges were:Value based care delivery: Robust platform to support wide array of devices, data, and applications that manage patient data with utmost security. This facilitates the delivery of customised care to end-users, increasing the patients’ adherence to medication.Business efficiency: Integration with legacy enterprise applications to ensure seamless exchange of customer, product, and sales data between BU’s as well as enabling KPI tracking at various enterprise levelsShorten time to market: Ability to run complex analytical models and data science functionality on the data collected from multiple sources to streamline development cycles.

GE Aviation, a renowned name in the aerospace industry, recognized the potential of 3D printing technology in transforming the sector. The primary challenge was to reduce the weight of the aerospace parts, which would directly impact the fuel costs. A lighter airplane would mean lower fuel consumption, leading to cost savings and a smaller carbon footprint. However, achieving this weight reduction without compromising the strength and functionality of the parts was a significant challenge. Traditional manufacturing methods were not able to provide the desired weight reduction while maintaining the required stiffness and strength of the parts. The challenge was to find a solution that could create strong, light, and functional aerospace parts.

In the face of global challenges, brands were required to adapt their communication and outreach strategies. Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, was no exception. The company needed to educate consumers about their partnership with ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ and their campaign to donate up to four million dollars to help fund cancer research. The challenge was to effectively reach and engage consumers, and to do so in a way that would resonate with them and encourage them to take action.

Mobile App based on non-invasive for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a blood sample.Portable DeviceLess ExpensiveAccurate as compared to the standard Breath Analyzer.BAC test result varies between individuals consuming identical amounts of alcohol due to race, gender, weight, genetic predisposition, metabolic rate.

Future Vehicle Technology Manager at the Victorian Department of Transport (formerly VicRoads), explains that “human error is a significant contributor to road crashes”, meaning momentary lapses of concentration or judgment are far more likely to cause accidents than overtly dangerous driving.

Oracle University, a platform that provides proficiency training on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and SaaS applications, faced significant challenges with its underlying database system. The system, which was initially based on AWS and used PostgreSQL, was migrated to OCI in 2018. However, the PostgreSQL system had several shortcomings. Performance optimization was subpar, and building a high-availability (HA) setup required substantial expertise. The system also required additional compute resources, which led to downtime and necessitated the management of the underlying block storage that PostgreSQL used. This resulted in high administrative overhead and required expertise, making the system inefficient and costly to maintain.

The city of Atlanta, with a resident population of over 420,000 and a metropolitan area of more than five million people, faced the challenge of ensuring the safety and security of its citizens and visitors. As a leading tourist destination and a multicultural city attracting global investment, Atlanta had to deal with the complexities of managing safety and security incidents. Over the years, the city had invested in various surveillance systems, providing visual intelligence to law enforcement and security professionals. However, these systems operated independently and were spread across a wide geography. The city aimed to increase collaboration among government agencies and create a shared Video Integration Center (VIC). The challenge was the disparate nature of the video systems, which were based on proprietary technologies and were both analog and IP based. The city also wanted to leverage the numerous private cameras located across the city, further complicating the integration of all these systems into one common platform.

Based on a program need to build a collaborative data repository for the Marine Hydrokinetic Program, NREL wanted to build a secure, yet collaborative, platform to collect, curate, store, and share moderately sensitive data, which focuses on water power research. As part of this effort, NREL built an environment with a Moderate Authority to Operate (ATO) accreditation from the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). With a FISMA Moderate ATO, NREL maintains all mandated cyber security requirements, while gaining the ability to manage and share moderately sensitive data with other government agencies and research entities.As it prepared to design the new infrastructure, NREL knew it needed agility and flexibility. “Our goal was to make it easy for analysts and scientists to access and publish data, but we didn’t want to spend our time managing infrastructure to facilitate that. We want to focus on the product—the data itself,” says Webber. For example, NREL uses a dev-ops team approach focused on the needs of the client and ensures that the research metadata is optimized for accessibility. “We need to make sure the right descriptors and keywords are there so we can easily connect our users to all the other research sites,” says Jon Weers, senior web strategist at NREL. “If the data isn’t discoverable, it’s not useful to researchers.”

Like many aerospace engineering firms, TLG employs STAR-CCM+, a leading industry application, to perform CFD simulations. TLG uses the application to conduct aerodynamic simulations on aircraft and predict the pressure and temperature surrounding airframes. However, the company wanted to reduce the costs associated with running simulations. “We were using a cloud provider to host our simulations, but the cost per simulation was high,” says Andrew McComas, engineering manager at TLG Aerospace. “Running a typical simulation was costing us hundreds of dollars per case, and there may be hundreds of cases per project.”TLG also wanted the ability to scale its high-performance computing (HPC) applications to take on larger simulations. “The trend in our industry is toward doing more complex simulations that require more compute resources,” McComas says. “But with the internal HPC cluster we were using, we were limited as far as the maximum size problem we could run. We were limited to a small number of nodes and couldn’t allocate enough memory to run large-scale problems.”Because it wanted to reduce costs and gain scalability, TLG decided to search for a new cloud provider.

Every day enterprises send out thousands of emails but can struggle to maintain visual and legal consistency in email signatures and many don't seize the opportunity to include marketing campaigns in company email signatures. With a rapidly accelerating number of emails being sent from mobile devices and websites, email signature management has entered a new level of complexity and is now also a matter of enterprise security on emails.

The city which used our lighting control solutions was able to improve the efficiency, costs, and operations of their streetlights. Our solutions had helped them do more with their strategic but costly lighting assets. Data from traffic and weather sensors and an internal astronomical clock are used to automatically dim some street lights, thus reducing energy use, extending lamp life, and lowering replacement costs.

Software tasks:Port U-Boot 2011.06 (and 3.5.9 by Marvell)Port Linux kernel 3.1.1 (and linux-feroceon_5_1_3_KW by Marvell)Create Debian6.0-based root file systemIntegrate and adapt FreeNAS-based graphic user interfaceIntegrate Asterisk

JSW, a multi-billion dollar company, is a key player in India’s steel, energy, cement, and infrastructure industries. The company's steel manufacturing is spread across multiple plants, each housing dozens of machines with numerous sensors tracking multiple data points and supplying event data every 2-3 seconds. This data includes field maintenance, material consumption, and machine usage. Although the data is saved in each machine’s database and transferred to the central Oracle databases, the process had significant issues. Each machine used its own data protocols, making the data transfer processes 'closed' and lacking a standard way of reporting errors. As a result, some errors went unnoticed for a long time, leading to financial losses. For instance, the production of metal with incorrect dimensions could go unnoticed, resulting in significant waste and financial loss.

Optima Energy Systems, a leading energy management software provider, was facing challenges with its existing reporting system. The company had built an extensive collection of bespoke reports for its customers, which included large, multi-site organizations like supermarkets, water companies, telecom companies, and universities. However, every new customer required a different report, leading to a messy pile-up of options and settings that became increasingly cumbersome and difficult to support. The original reporting technology was unfamiliar to many, causing Optima Energy Systems to spend a disproportionate amount of time manually building reports rather than focusing on future product enhancements. The company sought to replace its existing reporting capability to improve development efficiency and transform its manual and resource-intensive reporting environment into a customer self-service reporting infrastructure.

The building systems division of a Fortune 500 manufacturer, which provides equipment and services for optimizing building energy expenditures, was facing a significant challenge. The division was conducting chiller maintenance reactively, leading to business disruptions, downtimes, and costly emergency repairs. This reactive approach was negatively impacting customer satisfaction. The manufacturer needed a solution that could rapidly integrate all relevant equipment and facility data sources. The goal was to reduce downtime and costly, unscheduled maintenance for its commercial Heating, Venting & Cooling (HVAC) chiller systems.

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the importance of continuously monitoring indoor air quality, especially in schools. The Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec has announced in September 2021 the deployment and installation of air quality and comfort parameters sensors in more than 47,000 classrooms across the province.They need:Reduce maintenance and installation difficultiesMonitor CO2, humidity and temperature level at 5 minutes intervals during school hoursCreate an information system without the use of Wi-Fi or Cellular Internet

As a trailblazer for the future of mobility and a leading innovator behind ingenious technologies for electric car charging, safety and security concepts, Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles, and the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform, Vector’s business depends on selling many thousands of licenses every year. Protecting its technology from piracy is a challenge that Vector faces head-on with their Vector Network Interfaces (VNIs) and licenses associated with a combination of Wibu-Systems hardware and software containers. Integrating this system into the production landscape and streamlining its delivery called for a leaner and standardized solution, built right into the company’s sales processes.

Panic, a Portland-based corporation known for its Mac apps and video games, was venturing into a new territory with the development of their own handheld video game system, Playdate. The company was aware that releasing a gaming device would present new challenges compared to their previous software-based products. They were determined not to compromise on product quality. To ensure a continuously improved product experience for their customers, Panic needed a way to deliver firmware updates post the shipping of the devices. Additionally, they realized early on that obtaining useful crash reports from users would be a challenge. They needed an efficient system to monitor device metrics to catch and resolve issues before they escalated.

In the past, it was necessary for inspectors to visually detect minute foreign substances that rarely got mixed in with raw materials (plants) flowing down the production line.The challenges are:1. difficult to detect visually by inspectors - It was necessary for inspectors to visually inspect foreign objects as small as 1mm, which made it difficult to detect them.2. existing inspection devices cannot cope with the problem - In addition to the fact that the foreign matter is microscopic, both the raw material and the foreign matter come in multiple types and colours and have unspecified shapes, so rule-based image inspection systems could not handle them.3. different conditions for each factory and line - The customer has multiple factories and lines, each with different types of foreign matter, different conveyor speeds, and different inspector skills.

Welding is challenging. It’s hard to inspect failures. Welds must be done in a consistent, repeatable process. Stack them too fast, and the packs do not line up.

More and more, our world is becoming aware about the environmental print that comes with population growth, limitation of resources, climate change and the need for sustainability. The biggest challange here was to raise awareness among citizens and organizations about their environmental impact, and to help themto reduce it in a sustainable way with the help of Real time data. 

As the economies of Southeast Asia have grown, the number of cars has rocketed. At the same time, implementation of traffic rules and measures to ensure road safety have been slow to develop, meaning that accidents are common.“The damage incurred by companies through car accidents and property damage is growing because the number of cars has increased without any solid framework for insurance, or safety measures being put in place,” says Miyuki Nakamura, Nihon Unisys Group.In response to this situation, Nihon Unisys Group took its Mujiko-Program DR™ cameraequipped mobile communication driving management and support service, which it had released for corporate clients in Japan in 2009, and remodelled it for the Southeast Asian market. 

Kinseed’s core purpose is ‘Connecting the Disconnected’ – whether that means people, information, or processes. Working with Great Ormond Street Hospital, Kinseed identified a major gap in accessing patient data. The monitoring of patients during transit to the hospital was predominantly manual and high-effort. A solution for real-time monitoring did not exist and handover processes were manual, slow and prone to error.Using a standard bedside monitor to track patients’ vital signs, Kinseed created an application to access and analyse this data in real-time, which consultants could access from their phones and tablets at Great Ormond Street Hospital or from wherever the specialist resided when providing care. The challenge for Kinseed was connectivity. The company needed a partner that could provide reliable and robust connectivity, ensuring that consultants were able to access critical patient data without issue.

CVC Technologies, a leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical packaging machines, was seeking an end-to-end IoT solution to fully digitize their pharmaceutical liquid filling and capping machines. The company aimed to enhance the safety of their equipment, introduce digital maintenance capabilities, and gain visibility into machine status from anywhere at any time. The challenge was to find a solution that could provide real-time visibility into the machine's status, deliver direct cloud connectivity and digital services, and simplify all aspects of the machine's lifecycle, from engineering to maintenance.