IoT devices fleet management

Fleet Management For IoT Embedded Linux Devices

IoT devices fleet management

Introduction

There is a steady increase in the adoption of IoT and Edge computing. More and more Linux running embedded devices are deployed remotely. These devices include Raspberry Pis and flavours, Intel NUC boards, mini-computers, mini-servers, NXP – IMX boards, NVIDIA Jetson boards, Servers, IoT Gateways or Custom boards running Yocto Linux or other variants.

With the explosion of embedded devices deployed remotely, the need to have complete fleet management or device management solution gets mandatory. You can manage with a couple of devices without the fleet management software, but once the scale goes high beyond a hundred itself, it gets chaotic.

What is required of a good fleet management solution?

System Monitoring – Device management, monitoring critical system parameters

Network Monitoring – Network monitoring, management & configurations

Application Monitoring – Application orchestration, monitoring & upgrades

Peripheral Monitoring – Connected devices (sensors, cameras) monitoring & upgrades

Features

Let’s check the features required by a scalable & reliable fleet management solution and what AiKaan offers.

Holistic View – Get God’s view of the whole IoT Deployments across sites. View the overall status of the IoT Edge devices (up/down), geolocation, the fleet’s overall health, profiles & applications created & deployed.

AiKaan Dashboard View

 

Secure remote access – Securely connect or access any IoT Edge device through SSH or Telnet over the internet even if the device is NAT’ted or behind a firewall.

Remotely access IoT Device over Internet

System health monitoring – Monitor system, network & applications health with more than 50 operational parameters. Proper alerts and notifications are generated if any of the parameters is violating.

AiKaan IoT Device health monitoring

 

Auto diagnostics – To manage the scale, primarily diagnostic of the issue is done by the system itself to find out anomalies.

Monitor IoT device health

 

System Uptime – Check your device uptime or network reachable with the intuitive Device Uptime graph.

Remote device Uptime

 

Dynamic grouping – This feature should help you to dynamically group devices based on their hardware, software or any other defined property. Once grouped, you should be able to apply actions (configurations, upgrades) on these devices.

AiKaan_dynamic_group

 

Auto-provisioning – Just configure the packages, applications, scripts or containers to be installed & run on the devices. AiKaan platform makes sure to warm up the IoT Edge devices with the configured packages & scripts.

Auto provision IoT Edge Devices

 

Over the Air (OTA) Upgrades – Securely perform Over the Air (OTA) Upgrades to an array of remotely deployed IoT embedded devices running Linux or Android. You can perform upgrades for configurations, script deployments, application/package, complete firmware update or Android APKs.

Over the Air (OTA) upgrade for embedded linux devices

 

Events & Notifications – Flexible infrastructure to generate events & notifications. The AiKaan controller generates more than 150 events based on the system’s health, networks & applications. Users can generate their own required events by just calling APIs.

AiKaan Events & Notifications

 

Reporting – Generate customised reports based on various operational parameters and time ranges. The reports can be exported into various formats to be shared.

AiKaan Reporting

 

Sign-up now to manage, monitor, securely remote access & upgrade (OTA) IoT edge devices & applications.

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