The highways sector this week was given a first look at Alloy, a connected asset management platform that could provide a major step towards helping authorities tackle Big Data issues.
Software firm Yotta hopes to secure a leading position in the worldwide infrastructure asset management software market for the next 20 years through the Alloy product, which takes the company's connectivity capabilities to a higher level than its previous popular Mayrise and Horizons products.
Alloy’s gateway allows it connect to Internet of Things (IoT) devices across the network such as 3G sensors installed on top of street lights, or traffic count loops embedded in roads, allowing it to monitor and control networks in real-time.
A screen grab from Yotta's Alloy platform
As it is built specifically for the web as a cloud application with no plugins required, Alloy is designed to make it cheaper and easier for authorities across the world to manage the vast volumes of data that come from such sensors.
Industry estimates suggest there could be over 20 billion connected devices worldwide by 2020.
Yotta's CEO Nick Smee unveiled the new product, which even took senior figures at the Department for Transport by surprise, in a keynote address to the Yotta Conference 2017 on Monday (6 December).
Mr Smee said: ‘Alloy is the future of infrastructure asset management. Across the globe, highways agencies and local authorities face similar challenges. They see the opportunity that rapid data growth presents but they are struggling to capture and join up data and to understand what is most relevant.
'Alloy provides the ideal solution, future-proofing organisations by allowing connectivity between a range of assets and data types and helping organisations harness the resulting insight for their competitive advantage.’
It also allows users to connect to server-based mapping, utilise web mapping services (WMS) and web feature services (WFS), features voice activiation and new systems such as the ‘Nightscape’ feature, which gives a live image of all the streetlights on the network.
‘While the structure and configuration of Alloy will be familiar to Mayrise users, this is a completely new software solution, with a brand new look and feel, which we have designed from the ground up,’ said Simon Topp, Yotta’s director of marketing and international business.
‘Running as a service, it can also help organisations save on IT infrastructure and service costs while providing the highest level of availability and simple support and upgrade processes that drive ongoing efficiencies.’
Yotta plans to roll out Alloy’s first modules – covering highways and street lighting – this summer with the full suite released in 2019 across its core markets of the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Spain and Germany.
Alloy will evolve to absorb Yotta’s existing Mayrise asset management suite and over time will expand and enhance existing Mayrise modules.
Yotta has committed to a minimum of five years continued development and support for Mayrise and Horizons, as well as providing Alloy to existing customers without any further licence charge.
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