Axeda

The PTC company in August 204 years closed the deal on acquisition of Axeda Corporation company, the pioneer in development of solutions on safe connection of machines and sensors to a cloud. Technical innovations, the extensive customer base and wide network of partners of Axeda company will provide essential advantages to business of PTC ThingWorx and will allow PTC company to provide quicker the best in the solution class for Internet of Things (IoT).

Safe connection and opportunity to use machine data with the purpose of obtaining new benefits for business are the most important elements of IoT technologies and are in constantly growing demand as the increasing number of the companies begins to apply the strategy of intellectual products with interaction opportunities. Being an innovator in the market of IoT technologies, the Axeda company services more than 150 clients now, processing daily hundreds of millions messages directed from machines from the most different sectors of the industry. The company locates the extensive ecosystem of partners including chief operators of mobile networks, producers of the advanced devices and the built-in components, system integrators and system providers and analytics for business. Thanks to the leadership in the field of technologies the company signed a number of strategic OEM agreements with the leading suppliers of technologies and the solutions IoT.

The center of IoT technology of Axeda company is providing to the companies an opportunity to organize safe connection and to exercise remote monitoring and control of a large number of machines, sensors and devices. Here some examples of the given opportunities:

• Services of Axeda for connection of machines to a cloud (Machine Cloud Service) provide interaction between machines (M2M) and services of connection of IoT, providing software agents and sets of the work benches helping the companies to connect the products to a cloud practically on any communication links (for example, on cellular transmission networks, the Internet, WiFi networks or via the satellite).
• Axeda Connected Content Application provides effective, reliable, safe and cost-efficient mass content distribution of the connected products and automates remote installation of software updates and updates for a security system.
• Axeda Connected Service Application, addition to the PTC portfolio of the solutions SLM, provides field service and technical support of personnel with the graphical interface on an Internet basis and complex tools for remote identification, diagnostics and elimination of problems the devices connected to the Axeda Platform.
• The complex strategy of security of Axeda covers all levels of a stack of IoT technologies, including levels of networks, applications, users and data. The Axeda company underwent certification of ISO 27001:2005 that reflects its aiming at achievement of the highest security levels, performance and availability.