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Google taps Foghorn to simplify the deployment of industrial IoT solutions (GOOGL)

Google and software provider Foghorn Systems have teamed up to help manufacturers simplify the deployment of industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions.

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Google and software provider Foghorn Systems have teamed up to help manufacturers simplify the deployment of industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions and maximize the business value they can derive from the IoT, according to ZDNet.

Through the partnership, Google Cloud will integrate its IoT Core managed platform with Foghorn's Lighting Edge Intelligence edge computing platform. Edge computing refers to when data is stored, processed, and analyzed locally, rather than in the cloud or at a remote data center. IoT Core, which Google first unveiled last spring, is a fully managed service that enables companies to easily and securely connect, manage, and ingest data from IoT devices. Foghorn's platform, meanwhile, is an edge-based machine learning and analytics platform designed to help companies sift through and make sense of massive data sets very quickly.

Integration between the companies' offerings will give customers added flexibility when processing and analyzing their IIoT data:

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  • Manufacturers will be able to deploy the processing and analytics capabilities of IoT Core at the edge for the first time.
  • will be connected
  • Access to Foghorn's Lightning Edge Intelligence will also allow IoT Core customers to analyze data
  • from IoT deployments they were previously unable to.
  • In addition, data captured through compatible IoT devices will
  • be able to be run through Google Cloud's standard features.

This partnership is important for Google, which was a late entrant to the IoT platform market, compared with Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM, but is aggressively trying to catch up via partnerships and acquisitions. These other players have offered cloud- and edge-based platforms for at least the three years, while Google IoT Core only came out of the public beta testing phase last month.

While IoT Core offers standard features like data storage, analytics, and dashboard-based data visualization, it doesn't have the long list of features offered by earlier entrants like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or IBM's Bluemix. Google’s now building a more robust features list via numerous acquisitions and strategic hiring. Last month, the company purchased Xively from software provider LogMeIn to add IoT device management capabilities to IoT Core, and hired longtime Samsung CTO Injong Rhee to coordinate and lead its enterprise IoT efforts; this agreement with Foghorn is just the latest iteration of this strategy.

The search giant will likely continue to try and leverage its extensive background in machine learning to add more features and attract more partners, but it still has a long way to go before it poses a serious threat to Amazon and others in the $325 billion IoT platform market.

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