Galaxy 2021 Platform Innovation

Pacific Controls’ Galaxy 2021 is a cutting edge Cloud Platform that enables a whole range of smart services, leveraging Internet of Things technologies and big data analytics. The Platform is capable of integrating billions of diverse assets to capture massive amount of data, analyze and present that data delivering actionable business intelligence. Galaxy 2021 facilitates active management of assets to help optimize costs, improve performance and operational efficiency. Pacific Controls’ Galaxy 2021 is a complete Enterprise City Management Platform that utilizes Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to integrate and monitor city’s critical infrastructure. The Platform captures, analyzes and distributes real time data to the relevant decision makers, thereby helping to optimize use of city’s resources, enhance performance of systems and improve services to citizen - ultimately delivering smart and sustainable communities.

Galaxy 2021 Platform also makes it possible for developers to create customized IOT applications rapidly and cost-effectively. The Platform offers a diverse range of open interfaces to allow developers to create applications using its unique strengths in data management and analysis, alarm management, and the revolutionary GBOT technologies.

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Galaxy 2021 Creating Smarter Communities

The advent of Internet of Things, facilitated by M2M communication and advances in device networking technologies, has paved the way for connecting almost any peripheral device to any network or the Internet. Cisco projected that 50 billion devices will be connected to networks by the year 2020, which is likely to revolutionize the way assets are managed and smart communities are created. Many deem 50 billion to be a conservative number and project more like 75 billion devices by 2021.

Pacific Controls’ Galaxy 2021 is a cloud platform that interacts with numerous M2M devices. By combining M2M and cloud computing, Galaxy 2021 makes it possible to create a world of smart cities and enterprises in which networked "embedded intelligence" allows any manufactured device to generate valuable information. The information gathered can be used to deliver efficiencies in a wide range of processes. By developing services on Pacific Controls' cloud Galaxy platform, cities and businesses can use the intelligence sent back from the device to unleash a wave of productivity. They are able to reduce costs, explore new revenue opportunities, and deliver unique value propositions to customers/citizens.

Galaxy 2021 Features

Galaxy 2021 is a powerful computing platform that implements the integrated intelligence, control optimization, autonomy and remote diagnostic capabilities needed to deliver smart services. The central information repository is capable of storing large volumes of data on the performance and status of all the systems and equipment. The framework is built from modular application components. It is flexible and scalable, which makes it possible to add or reduce functionality based on the KPIs relevant to the ecosystem being managed.

Galaxy 2021 is an open platform, with service oriented architecture for integration and collaboration. The system can integrate virtually any devices using a whole range of IP and legacy interfaces. The system captures data /alarms from several different sources, including devices, Social Media, and diverse IT systems. Its business rules engines is capable of analyzing data and alarms and facilitate predictive business models for performance assessment and proactive actions to ensure optimal efficiency at all times.

The system facilitates presentation of dashboards in many different forms using various delivery channels; including but not limited personal computers, tablets, smart phones, and other IOT / business applications. API manager, a key feature of Galaxy 2021, facilitates development of IOT applications and further data manipulation by developers to derive highest level of business intelligence, and productivity.

Galaxy 2021 offers numerous unique features, which are summarized in the following sections.

Creating Smart Communities necessitate integration of numerous systems with Smart Services Platform. Open protocols supported by Pacific Controls’ Galaxy 2021 makes it possible for virtually any device to connect with the Platform. To achieve this, Pacific Controls installs a Network Interface Unit (NIU) to connect the existing system to the IP network. The NIUs are multiprotocol controllers that communicate over IP and non-IP networks simultaneously. NIUs bring data from systems that do not use IP onto the IP network, so that decisions and actions can be managed from an Internet platform.

To eliminate the communication problems that are often encountered between legacy and new systems, the NIU creates a unified data structure on the ICT network and normalizes data, irrespective of the type of systems connected to it. The NIU supports all Industry standard open protocols such as Bacnet, Lonworks, Modbus, SNMP, EIB, oBix (Web services), as well as many legacy systems. It can communicate over IP and serial networks using the correct protocols to read and write data into the different systems. The NIU logs data at intervals that can range from one second up to 24 hours, or when there is a change of value or change of state. The NIU can integrate, monitor, manage, control and analyze numerous systems, including HVAC systems ,Lighting control systems, Irrigation control systems, Access control systems, CCTV security systems and many more.

Galaxy 2021 can also interface with various other applications and systems to extract useful information in order to analyze and present that information to various stakeholders for effective decision making. For example, information can be aggregated, co-related ad analyzed from various governmental and private sector business systems, social media and other databases and presented to Individuals, businesses, City administration and other governmental stakeholders and presented in dashboards that can be customized in accordance with requirements of stakeholders.

Galaxy 2021 allows multiple data sources to be collated and the data mined for information and worked on in a distributed data environment. The Platform is interoperable with any data source and makes it easy to create reports at the right level of detail for decision makers and managers, ensuring that they have the vital information at their fingertips. End users can operate on a single unified platform and have direct access to real-time data, Web-based data, and corporate applications regardless of location.

As it is developed on an open framework, the platform provides users with the opportunity to use it according to their own needs and preferences. Neither the platform nor the user is restricted to particular analytical methodologies, reporting formats or data visualization structures. Over the whole process, from data acquisition and mapping, through developing complex equations, creating diagnostic rules and analyzing the data, to visualization and reporting, the platform allows users the freedom to make use of the data in the way that suits them best. Any organization can use Galaxy 2021 to regulate and monitor its assets across individual buildings, cities or the globe.

One of Galaxy’s unique strengths is that it provides a view of the platform and its data that can be tailored to any type of user, whether they are a citizens accessing personal data, a business manager, a city manager or a software developer. This allows Galaxy to be an unrestricted universal platform, which is beyond the capability of any other MIS available today.

Galaxy enables presentation of data in many different forms, which may include tables, dashboards, graphics and 3D images.

Pacific Controls makes its powerful and versatile cloud platform available to developers who can use it to create customized applications rapidly and cost-effectively. The Galaxy 2021 platform offers a diverse range of open APIs to allow developers to create applications using its unique strengths in data management, analysis, and alarm management. Using these tools, developers can create services quickly and easily, tailored to the needs of any client.

As it is developed on an open framework, software engineers can use the Platform according to the needs and preferences of the end users. One of Galaxy’s unique strengths is that it provides a view of the Platform and its data that developers can tailor to any type of user, whether they are a technician, a manager or a software developer.

By developing services on Pacific Controls' Platform, individuals, businesses and cities can create their own applications quickly and cost-effectively. Developers can leverage Galaxy's common, scalable architecture with its unique ability to manage hundreds of controllers and thousands of data points. Using the powerful M2M device and data management tools, they can extract maximum value from the intelligence sent back from the field to unleash a wave of productivity. Organizations are able to shed costs, explore new revenue opportunities, and solve customer problems as never before.

Galaxy offers flexible access control through a hierarchical, multi-user environment with different access permissions for different types of staff - such as operators, citizens, businesses, city managers, and administrators as well as various other stakeholders with need to access personal, business, city and country level data.

Galaxy 2021 Platform is browser independent and is the first application of its kind to deliver a range of specialized services through a single browser window. Galaxy 2021 addresses the problem of application scalability by allowing user to create templates for all of its resources so that they can be reused for subsequent projects.

Pacific Controls Galaxy 2021 is the world’s first cloud based smart services Platform to create intelligent bots – Gbots - to manage systems remotely. Gbots are intelligent robots that assist people and act on their behalf, they operate continuously and autonomously in any systems environment, Gbots know, or can learn, about the systems and equipment they monitor and can communicate and collaborate with other Gbots to achieve a common goal, such as identifying and diagnosing problems, minimizing energy consumption, minimizing operating costs, or maximizing comfort. Gbots can be dispatched to run on local processors within the systems they are working on, which greatly reduces the computational load on the central servers.

The Galaxy 2021 platform is capable of predicting imminent component failures using the wealth of stored data available from the sensors being monitored. Data can be downloaded frequently and analyzed immediately using the Gbots supervised and unsupervised learning, such as case-based reasoning and neural network techniques. This makes it possible to identify the early stages of degradation and spot early signs of malfunction. Corrective action can be taken automatically using heuristic approaches, such as iterative measurement and adjustment of process parameters, until the problem is rectified. If this approach fails, the problem can be escalated and an engineer called out.

Capturing the real value of smart connected devices goes much further than providing simple connectivity, and databasing. Galaxy 2021 is building capabilities to enable real smart networked, embedded devices to execute remote applications as if those applications were part of the internal operating system.

Smart phones and Tablets are now ubiquitous in business. Galaxy's mobility platform transforms Smart Phones and Tablets into powerful remote control and monitoring tools. These can be used for a colossal range of day-to-day and business-related functions, from reading utility meters to turning off the lights at a stadium following a sporting event.

The Platform provides seamless service integration with the iPhone, Android devices, Blackberries and the Tablets. This allows Galaxy 2021 reports and dashboards to be accessed from these devices. A Galaxy thin client installed on the device can also be used to monitor performance and initiate actions that affect systems internationally.

The Galaxy 2021 Mobility Platform consists of middleware that uses business rules and logic to extract data from the web-based system, prepare it for the mobile platform and communicate it, via web services, to the mobile device. This ensures consistent delivery across all mobile platforms. The system interworks with standard integration platforms to deliver the full range of sophisticated monitoring, measurement, verification and versatile reporting services that Galaxy 2021 offers.

The Platform can be used to create mobile apps that support: function such as:

  • Service Requests Management
  • Service Report Management
  • Job Cards handling
  • Dashboard and Benchmarking
  • Alarms and Event Management
  • Chart Builder and Analytics

The Galaxy mobility platform allows developers to take full advantage of all that the technology has to offer.

The Galaxy 2021 platform has the potential for a breathtaking range of applications in managing cities and enterprises across the globe. Both cities and large enterprises develop complex ecosystems in which there is enormous scope for optimizing processes and reducing inefficiencies. Both the public and private sectors can benefit from applying an integrated ICT approach, across the whole breadth of their activities, to identify operational synergies and potential for cost savings.

Galaxy 2021 is the world’s first platform that is capable of delivering such an integrated approach to the management of an ecosystem comprised of organizations and processes relating to energy, real estate, security, healthcare, hospitality, transportation, education, financial, industrial and retail activities, premises and services. This approach is equally applicable to a city or a multi-national enterprise. Galaxy integrates with MIS to deliver optimization and governance data that allows cost reduction through operational efficiencies and distribution of real time data to the relevant decision makers. Data becomes visible to those who need access and are authorized to view it. It becomes transparent and verifiable, making the system and processes to which it is applied accountable to stakeholders.

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