Nokia IMPACT IoT platform (Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things)

Nokia IMPACT IoT platform (Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things) is the intellectual platform of management of all connected objects. The protected platform focused on operators, the enterprises and state structures for scaling of the complemented services of Internet of Things^[1].

2019: Integration with Digital City Accelerator Platform from Dell Technologies

On February 22, 2019 the Dell EMC company announced the intelligent solution developed together with Nokia company for distribution and cargo delivery for the city of Delft in the Netherlands. The state-private project within an ecosystem of "the smart city" assumes use of the semiautonomous barges working at fuel elements and also involvement of the low-loaded channels of the city. It, according to developers, will help to reduce jams on roads and to reduce emissions of CO2.

Within the project of Dell EMC and Nokia company together with the Dutch companies Blue Turtle Associates, Aratos Systems, Circle Lines, City Hub, SPIE, the University of Delft and the regional government of Provence in the Southern Holland created and tested a common information space which serves as the scalable digital platform connecting all logistics chain in the city and its neighborhoods and also is used as a basis for the system of navigation. This platform is built using technologies from Dell EMC and Nokia for calculation, storage, data management, network connection, analytics and also use of IoT technologies and a blockchain.

As the delivery system of "the last mile" on the existing waterways of the city the semiautonomous barges using hydrogen fuel are used. The automatic digital river barge on hydrogen fuel is connected to a cloud and is controlled with the help of IMPACT Iot Platform from Nokia and the Digital City Accelerator Platform platform from Dell EMC. As noted in Dell EMC, the joint project with Nokia will allow to reduce the volume of traditional transport transportations.

In many regions of Holland there are whole networks of waterways, canals or water reservoirs which especially are not used. With the advent of quiet and eco-friendly semiautonomous barges the goods which are usually transported by trucks can be transported on waterways of the city.

The joint project is a part of the wide strategic alliance of Dell EMC and Nokia companies aimed at providing digital transformation in different key industries, noted in Dell EMC.

"Digital transformation defines the directions of development for the modern cities: they become more smart, more eco-friendly, more effective – and not only in respect of an expense of natural resources, but also in infrastructure. In order that an intelligent city system functioned, flexible and open solutions based on IoT technologies are necessary". Konstantin Timofeev, the head of Dell EMC company selling OEM/IoT-solutions in Russia and the CIS

"The joint project with Dell EMC is an example of how it is possible to use industrial networks IoT for connection of sensors, vehicles and machines to take advantage of automation to the solution of a difficult social task – providing effective logistics at its simultaneous decrease in "a carbon trace"". Laurent Le Gourrierec, head of Nokia company of strategic partnership

2016: Release of the IMPACT platform

On June 14, 2016 Nokia announced release of the intellectual platform of management of all connected objects - IMPACT (Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things).

Representation of a scope of the platform, (2016)

IMPACT provides data collection, event handling, device management, a kontekstualization of data, analytics, end-to-end protection and implementation of applications for any devices, protocols and applications

The Motive Connected Device Nokia platform is a part of the solution, it provides management of lifecycle more than 80 thousand devices intended for home use, Internet of Things and broadband access. In the latest version all software tools of Nokia for management mobile and IoT-devices are integrated.

The platform is based in a cloud and customers can add, on demand, server capacity for support of a set of attached devices. The advanced internal architecture of the platform which is initially expected the maximum scalability, security and reliability is improved regarding scaling of capacity.

When developing IMPACT the company considered the growing security requirements, including for network, a cloud and termination points. The latest model of security of Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) for control of IoT-devices supported by an extensive product portfolio of Nokia for information security support is implemented.

Our new IMPACT platform, the including Motive CDP, differs in the enhanced functionality in the field of device management, information security and analytics. All this is important as the analysis of the received IoT-data increases their value and especially relevant is their protection. Bhaskar Gorti, president of division of applications and analytics of Nokia

The IMPACT platform is included into an IoT-portfolio of Nokia as a part of which four main structural units for any IoT-solution:

• Applications: vertical solutions for the connected cars, health care, divisions of the emergency reaction, the "smart" cities and houses, engineering economy.
• Platforms: IMPACT IoT-platform and Motive Connected Device platform.
• Infrastructure: the extensive infrastructure portfolio including the products taking the leading positions in the field of narrow-band low-power IoT-solutions for a radio communication.
• Devices and sensors: attached devices, including recently Withings acquired company, and the home gateway provided within Smart Home solution Nokia.

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