NearbySensor is a complete system designed to fulfill the needs of businesses and public administrations related to control, automation and IoT processes. NearbySensor has developed its own technology and makes it available on a customer-tailored project basis or through a series of ready-to-use products appropriate for a wide diversity of industries and services.

NearbySensor Technology Overview 1

Technology Overview

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Cloud public resourcesAPI/REST ServerMQTT Server, etcDB Service, Mail Service, File Service, etc

Users

NearbyAgent

Third-party box (pc, industrialpc, Raspberrypi, etc) with LinuxOS, /WinOS

Ethernet3G /4G...

Switch

Ethernet3G /4G...

RS485, FieldBuses (ModBus, CAN, etc),

Digital I/O, Analog I/O, 802.15.4, BLE,

USB, Wi-fi...

Field&Virtual Sensors&Actuators Field&Virtual Sensors&Actuators

Smartphone

NearbyBoxNearbyBox

3G /4G...

NearbyAgent

Internal SPSensors&Acuators

RS485, FieldBuses (ModBus, CAN, etc), Digital I/O, Analog I/O,

802.15.4, BLE, USB,

Wi-fi...

NearbyAgentNearbyAgent

NearbySensor central premises(Internet cloud or corporation cloud)

NearbyPlatform

Productivity Suite

Sensor Dataconsolidation

Set-up&management +

Services repository

Edge Automation&IoT

www.nearbysensor.com

The NearbySensor Automation&IoT network

(GPS, Screen, Camera Accelerometer, etc)

100% capable: NearbySensor achieves its assign-

ments, whatever the automation or IoT/M2M proces-

ses you need to build up, whatever the complexity

and whatever the sensors, algorithms or types of data

involved. NearbySensor’s set of SW and HW pieces

will fit exactly to your business operative needs.

Full automation, full IoT, full data processing and

communication: Experience the power of the Inter-

net of Everything, by getting the advantages of two

converging worlds: operational technologies (OT)

and information technologies (IT). Supported by its

driver-based architecture, NearbySensor is designed

to establish and manage bi-directional communica-

tion between them. With no limits. So, NearbySensor

can quickly integrate and associate existing physical

sensing devices, but also IT data or IT events

(pictures, excel sheets, incoming e-mails, DB triggers,

file system changes, etc).

A single and unique multipurpose SW and HW.

NearbySensor technology allows the co-processing

and interconnection of all the concurrent control

services running in a managed space (which may be a

city street, a technical space, an office, a classroom, a

production plant, etc.) Think of the efficiency gains

when all this example control processes are gover-

ned by a single system:

· Energy consumption optimizing

· Access control

· Environmental monitoring

· Data logging and analysing of industrial processes

· Integration of classic automation systems (PLC)

· Infrastructure operation processes

· Video capture and interpretation

· Air quality control and mapping

· Vehicle data acquisition and processing, etc

and when they can be transparently connected with

any kind of business management software (ERP,

Building Management Software, File Manager

Systems, Database engines, Mail servers, etc).

Automation/IoT services and applications as an

app-like catalog: in NearbySensor’s architecture,

applications are abstract entities, which means they

are not linked to a specific hardware but to any

function-compliant hardware, whatever the

underlying technology. This way, code is re-usable

for an infinite range of HW and sensor vendors,

making it possible to integrators and businesses to

choose among them according to price, accuracy,

reliability, availability...

Secure: NearbySensor places security at the heart of

the code. By using a mix of existing state-of-the art

techniques, all the components raise the security

level to the top standards.

Hardware agnostic: NearbySensor runs on any

system architecture supporting LinuxOS, WinOS or

MacOS. For a quicker deployment of solutions Near-

bySensor has designed the NearbyBox device family,

with which the major part of usual projects may be

addressed.

Field and communication multiprotocol enabled:

existing drivers for the most usual field buses (CAN,

ModBus, BacNet…) and for all types of IoT and

wireless communication protocols (API/REST,

MQTT, XMPP, etc and Wi-Fi, BLE, Bluetooth, IEEE

802.15.4, GPRS/3G/4G, Radio-frequency, etc) make

interconnection of sensors, actuators and other

systems a no-brainer.

Built with well-known technologies: NearbySensor’s

Platform and Productivity Suite are HTML5 web

applications that may run in your existing IT premises

or be rented on a cloud-service basis. NearbyAgent is

a SW framework able to be downloaded on Linux,

Windows, MacOs or Android. NearbyBox is a family of

Linux-based devices with a standard CPU at its core.

Cloud resources liberator: NearbySensor belongs

to the group of distributed computing systems and

services (also called Edge or Fog Computing). The

processing of data flows remains at the field contro-

ller level, taking also care of computational loads or

allocating them in the most efficient way. With this

approach automation processes do not depend on

public telecom networks and are achieved at a

fraction of the time, and so making possible to

support time-sensitive processes.

Affordable: Integration processes are 99% of times

defined and developed at the highest level, usually

involving semi-closed systems from different vendors.

Low-level integration allows a much more quicker

and easier process, bringing off a new scale of prices.

Protecting businesses existing and future investments.

NearbySensor may be easily seized to a business

current needs, and scaled as they grow or change. Its

cost is structured on a per-controller basis, not on a

per-signal basis.

SDK tools. A SDK is available to facilitate to integra-

tors the customizing of any sensors network beha-

viour, monitoring, and reporting.

Aggregate smartphone or desktop pc internal

sensors to the control network. Any smartphone or

tablet contains a long list of physical sensors and actua-

NearbySensor outcomes tors. A desktop pc has also a few. And both run SW

services which can be also considered sensors. Near-

bySensor is prepared to aggregate any of them to an

automation/IoT network in order in using them in any

control logics. For instance, a control access code of a

door may not be enabled unless the GPS of the person’s

smartphone indicates he is in front of that door.

Single screen of maintenance. Multi-screen mainte-

nance workplaces may be forgotten. Monitor, opera-

te and manage alarms with a unique screen (desktop

computer, tablet, smartphone…).

Integrator and installer friendly: entry barriers for

integrators and installers are very low, as the

programming languages (if you need specific develo-

pments), are the most common ones (Python, PHP,

SQL etc). Installers will also be helped by clear

connections rules and patterns, with helpful software

to check the correct completion of the installation.

Compatible with major IoT cloud platforms: Near-

bySensor may also be used to work transparently

with any IoT cloud platform like IBM Watson IoT,

Microsoft Azure IoT Suite, AWS IoT, Fiware, Google

Cloud Platform, etc

Open and easily integrable with existing systems. NearbySensor may be placed at the heart of your

automation/IoT network or entrusted to deliver only a

part of the tasks. In any case, connection with existing

systems in a given environment (such as Sentilo, Won-

derware Scada...) is a simple matter, since NearbySen-

sor shares the most common open systems standards.

NearbySensor Products

Nearby Sensoris a set of products designed and developed to work together or to be integrated with third parties

products.

Required:

NearbyPlatform, a web application where the automation/IoT network is set up, by identifying its compo-

nents and the automation/IoT process rules. A basic catalog of services/applications is included.

NearbyAgent, a framework installed in every controller in the automation/IoT network. A controller may-

be a NearbyBox, third-parties hardware, a smartphone, a desktop computer...any device where a Nearby

Agent will be running*.

Optional:

NearbyProductivity: a complete suite designed to take advantage of your automation/IoT network data.

It is optional because data can be sent to your existing integrations systems (ERP, BI, SCADA, etc). With

this NearbySensor module you will:

Monitor&Operate Get visual information of the state of sensors and actuators, take remote control of them.

Maintain Manage the current alarms and get statistics on the past ones.

Analyze Get statistics on the incoming data from your sensors (energy consumption, environment con-

ditions, etc) with pre-defined rules or build your own statistical patterns.

Deploy Manage and update the network nodes at the OS level, with a single click.

NearbyBox: available controllers designed or selected by NearbySensor, for a faster project deployment.

Visit our website for details.

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NearbySensor Technology Overview 2

Set-up and manage your whole network through a browser.

100% capable: NearbySensor achieves its assign-

ments, whatever the automation or IoT/M2M proces-

ses you need to build up, whatever the complexity

and whatever the sensors, algorithms or types of data

involved. NearbySensor’s set of SW and HW pieces

will fit exactly to your business operative needs.

Full automation, full IoT, full data processing and

communication: Experience the power of the Inter-

net of Everything, by getting the advantages of two

converging worlds: operational technologies (OT)

and information technologies (IT). Supported by its

driver-based architecture, NearbySensor is designed

to establish and manage bi-directional communica-

tion between them. With no limits. So, NearbySensor

can quickly integrate and associate existing physical

sensing devices, but also IT data or IT events

(pictures, excel sheets, incoming e-mails, DB triggers,

file system changes, etc).

A single and unique multipurpose SW and HW.

NearbySensor technology allows the co-processing

and interconnection of all the concurrent control

services running in a managed space (which may be a

city street, a technical space, an office, a classroom, a

production plant, etc.) Think of the efficiency gains

when all this example control processes are gover-

ned by a single system:

· Energy consumption optimizing

· Access control

· Environmental monitoring

· Data logging and analysing of industrial processes

· Integration of classic automation systems (PLC)

· Infrastructure operation processes

· Video capture and interpretation

· Air quality control and mapping

· Vehicle data acquisition and processing, etc

and when they can be transparently connected with

any kind of business management software (ERP,

Building Management Software, File Manager

Systems, Database engines, Mail servers, etc).

Automation/IoT services and applications as an

app-like catalog: in NearbySensor’s architecture,

applications are abstract entities, which means they

are not linked to a specific hardware but to any

function-compliant hardware, whatever the

underlying technology. This way, code is re-usable

for an infinite range of HW and sensor vendors,

making it possible to integrators and businesses to

choose among them according to price, accuracy,

reliability, availability...

Secure: NearbySensor places security at the heart of

the code. By using a mix of existing state-of-the art

techniques, all the components raise the security

level to the top standards.

Hardware agnostic: NearbySensor runs on any

system architecture supporting LinuxOS, WinOS or

MacOS. For a quicker deployment of solutions Near-

bySensor has designed the NearbyBox device family,

with which the major part of usual projects may be

addressed.

Field and communication multiprotocol enabled:

existing drivers for the most usual field buses (CAN,

ModBus, BacNet…) and for all types of IoT and

wireless communication protocols (API/REST,

MQTT, XMPP, etc and Wi-Fi, BLE, Bluetooth, IEEE

802.15.4, GPRS/3G/4G, Radio-frequency, etc) make

interconnection of sensors, actuators and other

systems a no-brainer.

Built with well-known technologies: NearbySensor’s

Platform and Productivity Suite are HTML5 web

applications that may run in your existing IT premises

or be rented on a cloud-service basis. NearbyAgent is

a SW framework able to be downloaded on Linux,

Windows, MacOs or Android. NearbyBox is a family of

Linux-based devices with a standard CPU at its core.

Cloud resources liberator: NearbySensor belongs

to the group of distributed computing systems and

services (also called Edge or Fog Computing). The

processing of data flows remains at the field contro-

ller level, taking also care of computational loads or

allocating them in the most efficient way. With this

approach automation processes do not depend on

public telecom networks and are achieved at a

fraction of the time, and so making possible to

support time-sensitive processes.

Affordable: Integration processes are 99% of times

defined and developed at the highest level, usually

involving semi-closed systems from different vendors.

Low-level integration allows a much more quicker

and easier process, bringing off a new scale of prices.

Protecting businesses existing and future investments.

NearbySensor may be easily seized to a business

current needs, and scaled as they grow or change. Its

cost is structured on a per-controller basis, not on a

per-signal basis.

SDK tools. A SDK is available to facilitate to integra-

tors the customizing of any sensors network beha-

viour, monitoring, and reporting.

Aggregate smartphone or desktop pc internal

sensors to the control network. Any smartphone or

tablet contains a long list of physical sensors and actua-

NearbySensor

Low-level Integration

Process-Oriented

Edge+Cloud computing

Distributed process control

Full centralised Business Intelligence

Rich ecosystem of interconnected services

Multi-protocol (API/REST + MQTT + XMPP…)

Usual IoT platforms

Cloud Integration

Data-oriented

Cloud computing

Centralised process control

Full centralised Business Intelligence

Vertical services (silos)

Protocol specific

tors. A desktop pc has also a few. And both run SW

services which can be also considered sensors. Near-

bySensor is prepared to aggregate any of them to an

automation/IoT network in order in using them in any

control logics. For instance, a control access code of a

door may not be enabled unless the GPS of the person’s

smartphone indicates he is in front of that door.

Single screen of maintenance. Multi-screen mainte-

nance workplaces may be forgotten. Monitor, opera-

te and manage alarms with a unique screen (desktop

computer, tablet, smartphone…).

Integrator and installer friendly: entry barriers for

integrators and installers are very low, as the

programming languages (if you need specific develo-

pments), are the most common ones (Python, PHP,

SQL etc). Installers will also be helped by clear

connections rules and patterns, with helpful software

to check the correct completion of the installation.

Compatible with major IoT cloud platforms: Near-

bySensor may also be used to work transparently

with any IoT cloud platform like IBM Watson IoT,

Microsoft Azure IoT Suite, AWS IoT, Fiware, Google

Cloud Platform, etc

Open and easily integrable with existing systems. NearbySensor may be placed at the heart of your

automation/IoT network or entrusted to deliver only a

part of the tasks. In any case, connection with existing

systems in a given environment (such as Sentilo, Won-

derware Scada...) is a simple matter, since NearbySen-

sor shares the most common open systems standards.

NearbySensor Products

Nearby Sensoris a set of products designed and developed to work together or to be integrated with third parties

products.

Required:

NearbyPlatform, a web application where the automation/IoT network is set up, by identifying its compo-

nents and the automation/IoT process rules. A basic catalog of services/applications is included.

NearbyAgent, a framework installed in every controller in the automation/IoT network. A controller may-

be a NearbyBox, third-parties hardware, a smartphone, a desktop computer...any device where a Nearby

Agent will be running*.

Optional:

NearbyProductivity: a complete suite designed to take advantage of your automation/IoT network data.

It is optional because data can be sent to your existing integrations systems (ERP, BI, SCADA, etc). With

this NearbySensor module you will:

Monitor&Operate Get visual information of the state of sensors and actuators, take remote control of them.

Maintain Manage the current alarms and get statistics on the past ones.

Analyze Get statistics on the incoming data from your sensors (energy consumption, environment con-

ditions, etc) with pre-defined rules or build your own statistical patterns.

Deploy Manage and update the network nodes at the OS level, with a single click.

NearbyBox: available controllers designed or selected by NearbySensor, for a faster project deployment.

Visit our website for details.

Comparision table

NearbySensor Technology Overview 3

Service321

Service321

Service123

Service275

Service47B

Service21A

Service17

Service834

Service36A

Service3

Service22B

Service156

Service453

Service4

Service503

Service212

Service24B

Service723

Service5

Service98

Service275

Service21A

Service17

Service321

Services Catalog

100% capable: NearbySensor achieves its assign-

ments, whatever the automation or IoT/M2M proces-

ses you need to build up, whatever the complexity

and whatever the sensors, algorithms or types of data

involved. NearbySensor’s set of SW and HW pieces

will fit exactly to your business operative needs.

Full automation, full IoT, full data processing and

communication: Experience the power of the Inter-

net of Everything, by getting the advantages of two

converging worlds: operational technologies (OT)

and information technologies (IT). Supported by its

driver-based architecture, NearbySensor is designed

to establish and manage bi-directional communica-

tion between them. With no limits. So, NearbySensor

can quickly integrate and associate existing physical

sensing devices, but also IT data or IT events

(pictures, excel sheets, incoming e-mails, DB triggers,

file system changes, etc).

A single and unique multipurpose SW and HW.

NearbySensor technology allows the co-processing

and interconnection of all the concurrent control

services running in a managed space (which may be a

city street, a technical space, an office, a classroom, a

production plant, etc.) Think of the efficiency gains

when all this example control processes are gover-

ned by a single system:

· Energy consumption optimizing

· Access control

· Environmental monitoring

· Data logging and analysing of industrial processes

· Integration of classic automation systems (PLC)

· Infrastructure operation processes

· Video capture and interpretation

· Air quality control and mapping

· Vehicle data acquisition and processing, etc

and when they can be transparently connected with

any kind of business management software (ERP,

Building Management Software, File Manager

Systems, Database engines, Mail servers, etc).

Automation/IoT services and applications as an

app-like catalog: in NearbySensor’s architecture,

applications are abstract entities, which means they

are not linked to a specific hardware but to any

function-compliant hardware, whatever the

underlying technology. This way, code is re-usable

for an infinite range of HW and sensor vendors,

making it possible to integrators and businesses to

choose among them according to price, accuracy,

reliability, availability...

Secure: NearbySensor places security at the heart of

the code. By using a mix of existing state-of-the art

techniques, all the components raise the security

level to the top standards.

Hardware agnostic: NearbySensor runs on any

system architecture supporting LinuxOS, WinOS or

MacOS. For a quicker deployment of solutions Near-

bySensor has designed the NearbyBox device family,

with which the major part of usual projects may be

addressed.

Field and communication multiprotocol enabled:

existing drivers for the most usual field buses (CAN,

ModBus, BacNet…) and for all types of IoT and

wireless communication protocols (API/REST,

MQTT, XMPP, etc and Wi-Fi, BLE, Bluetooth, IEEE

802.15.4, GPRS/3G/4G, Radio-frequency, etc) make

interconnection of sensors, actuators and other

systems a no-brainer.

Built with well-known technologies: NearbySensor’s

Platform and Productivity Suite are HTML5 web

applications that may run in your existing IT premises

or be rented on a cloud-service basis. NearbyAgent is

a SW framework able to be downloaded on Linux,

Windows, MacOs or Android. NearbyBox is a family of

Linux-based devices with a standard CPU at its core.

Cloud resources liberator: NearbySensor belongs

to the group of distributed computing systems and

services (also called Edge or Fog Computing). The

processing of data flows remains at the field contro-

ller level, taking also care of computational loads or

allocating them in the most efficient way. With this

approach automation processes do not depend on

public telecom networks and are achieved at a

fraction of the time, and so making possible to

support time-sensitive processes.

Affordable: Integration processes are 99% of times

defined and developed at the highest level, usually

involving semi-closed systems from different vendors.

Low-level integration allows a much more quicker

and easier process, bringing off a new scale of prices.

Protecting businesses existing and future investments.

NearbySensor may be easily seized to a business

current needs, and scaled as they grow or change. Its

cost is structured on a per-controller basis, not on a

per-signal basis.

SDK tools. A SDK is available to facilitate to integra-

tors the customizing of any sensors network beha-

viour, monitoring, and reporting.

Aggregate smartphone or desktop pc internal

sensors to the control network. Any smartphone or

tablet contains a long list of physical sensors and actua-

tors. A desktop pc has also a few. And both run SW

services which can be also considered sensors. Near-

bySensor is prepared to aggregate any of them to an

automation/IoT network in order in using them in any

control logics. For instance, a control access code of a

door may not be enabled unless the GPS of the person’s

smartphone indicates he is in front of that door.

Single screen of maintenance. Multi-screen mainte-

nance workplaces may be forgotten. Monitor, opera-

te and manage alarms with a unique screen (desktop

computer, tablet, smartphone…).

Integrator and installer friendly: entry barriers for

integrators and installers are very low, as the

programming languages (if you need specific develo-

pments), are the most common ones (Python, PHP,

SQL etc). Installers will also be helped by clear

connections rules and patterns, with helpful software

to check the correct completion of the installation.

Compatible with major IoT cloud platforms: Near-

bySensor may also be used to work transparently

with any IoT cloud platform like IBM Watson IoT,

Microsoft Azure IoT Suite, AWS IoT, Fiware, Google

Cloud Platform, etc

Open and easily integrable with existing systems. NearbySensor may be placed at the heart of your

automation/IoT network or entrusted to deliver only a

part of the tasks. In any case, connection with existing

systems in a given environment (such as Sentilo, Won-

derware Scada...) is a simple matter, since NearbySen-

sor shares the most common open systems standards.

NearbySensor Products

Nearby Sensoris a set of products designed and developed to work together or to be integrated with third parties

products.

Required:

NearbyPlatform, a web application where the automation/IoT network is set up, by identifying its compo-

nents and the automation/IoT process rules. A basic catalog of services/applications is included.

NearbyAgent, a framework installed in every controller in the automation/IoT network. A controller may-

be a NearbyBox, third-parties hardware, a smartphone, a desktop computer...any device where a Nearby

Agent will be running*.

Optional:

NearbyProductivity: a complete suite designed to take advantage of your automation/IoT network data.

It is optional because data can be sent to your existing integrations systems (ERP, BI, SCADA, etc). With

this NearbySensor module you will:

Monitor&Operate Get visual information of the state of sensors and actuators, take remote control of them.

Maintain Manage the current alarms and get statistics on the past ones.

Analyze Get statistics on the incoming data from your sensors (energy consumption, environment con-

ditions, etc) with pre-defined rules or build your own statistical patterns.

Deploy Manage and update the network nodes at the OS level, with a single click.

NearbyBox: available controllers designed or selected by NearbySensor, for a faster project deployment.

Visit our website for details.

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NearbySensor delivers true value from the first day. Get all the functionality of a PLC/SCADA + M2M/IoT

infrastructure for a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time.

Data consolidationCentral data storage

NearbyProductivityMonitor, Operate,

Maintain, Analyze, Deploy

NearbyAgent

NearbyBox

NearbyPlatformCentral Network

Admin&Design

YourBusinessprocess

YourSensors & Actuators Your

Users

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