Digital transformation driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) is coming from seemingly everywhere within the enterprise. IT is being bombarded with requests to connect all manner of IoT devices to the corporate network including sensors, tracking tags, door locks, handheld scanners, and even air quality monitors.
This proliferation of IoT devices at the edge creates a new set of challenges for IT. IoT devices leverage a variety of different physical layer connectivity types and communication protocols. Vendor-specific IoT gateways are often required to manage those devices and collect their data. IoT gateways obscure IoT devices on the network, making it difficult—if not impossible—to understand, at a granular level, what is connected to the network and where device data is going. Security is always front-and-center when it comes to IoT because many IoT devices are fundamentally untrustworthy, and the lack of visibility creates greater risk.
Digital transformation requires more than simply connecting devices to the Internet. IoT data must be processed and integrated with business processes or applications. This requires deep knowledge of IoT, data transport, data security, and business applications. The complexity of this process is often farmed out to third-party integrators, a costly and time-consuming proposition that can leave IT teams dependent on a third party for business-critical functions.
The Aruba Edge Services Platform (ESP) helps you adapt to changing business requirements in hyperaware facilities with a future-proof network foundation. Today the focus might be on temperature and humidity monitoring, tomorrow on back-to-work hotel space cleaning, and next month on air quality monitoring. With Aruba ESP, you can prepare for whatever technology transition comes next with unified IT and IoT infrastructure across branch, campus, data center, and remote worker locations—all in a single pane-of-glass and platform.
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