Esri provides free mapping software for organizations fighting COVID-19

Communities in Need of Resources Can Access Location Intelligence Technology at No Cost

Esri will be making its software available to public and private sector organizations fighting the COVID-19 disease pandemic.

The COVID-19 outbreak has escalated rapidly across the globe, and with municipalities struggling to respond, Esri has built out resources to help organizations understand the potential impact of the disease on public health, as well as potential community risk areas and their capacity to respond. A COVID-19 GIS Hub site provides much of this essential data, including case locations and social vulnerability, that communities and health organizations can use to inform their response. {module INSIDE STORY}

To help public health agencies and other organizations jump-start their response, Esri is providing the ArcGIS Hub Coronavirus Response template at no cost through a complimentary six-month ArcGIS Online subscription with ArcGIS Hub. The template includes examples, materials, and configurations to rapidly deploy your ArcGIS Hub environment. ArcGIS Hub is a framework to build your own website to visualize and analyze the crisis in the context of your organization's or community's population and assets.

“Esri has always prioritized assisting communities during large-scale emergencies and natural disasters,” said Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and president. “For the past 25 years, our Disaster Response Program provides data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for emergency operations. We consider it part of our mission to provide these services free of cost during this time of national crisis.”

For more information on the complimentary software and the disaster relief support, visit esri.com/disaster.

Telit’s deviceWISE Asset Gateway software accelerates industrial IoT solutions

Telit has announced that the Telit deviceWISE Asset Gateway software has been validated by Dell Technologies for use on Dell Edge Gateway 3000 series and the software is now available as an integrated Cloud-ready industrial IoT solution. These 4.0 appliances provide edge intelligence for industrial asset management, secure remote access, device management, enterprise integration, OT to IT data exchange and processing, and other mission-critical IoT applications across industrial markets around the world.

As a Preferred member of the Dell Technologies Edge and IoT Ecosystem, Telit is working with Dell Technologies in a go-to-market collaboration that expands both companies’  industry reach and readiness for their respective products and services. The deviceWISE Asset Gateway software is a smart agent with an extensive industrial protocol library based on decades of development and experience in the industrial automation space. Combining the Dell Edge Gateways for IoT with Telit deviceWISE Asset Gateway software delivers a best-in-class Industry 4.0 appliance ready to accomplish a variety of remote sites and remote machine condition-based monitoring use cases. This combined hardware and software solution enables customers to do edge computing which will allow for the analyzation of real-time data. {module In-article}

Dell Edge Gateways for IoT with deviceWISE allows companies to deploy flexible and scalable IoT solutions. deviceWISE loaded on the Dell Edge Gateways for IoT can connect to Telit’s IoT Portal, an enterprise-grade Cloud service (powered by the deviceWISE IoT Platform) for IoT applications, such as remote machine monitoring and device management. This Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) features a low-cost pay-as-you-go service plan and lets you get started without any upfront investment, which lowers the barrier to entry for complex solutions. deviceWISE eliminates any custom development with intuitive click-to-configure tools that significantly reduce deployment time, risk, cost and complexity for companies large and small.

“Telit is pleased to be working with Dell Technologies to address the growing demand for easy to deploy Industrial IoT Solutions,” said Fred Yentz, President Strategic Partnerships, Telit.  “This offering brings best-in-class hardware solutions together with Telit’s globally recognized industrial Edge agent technology. The resulting solution pairs two proven technologies to solve real-world customer challenges.” 

“From low quantity, proof of concept projects to large scale OEM deployments, our work with Telit allows customers to architect, scale and roll out IoT solutions across a wide variety of legacy IO, protocols, infrastructure and applications,” said John Dauskurdas, Global Vice President, Sales, Dell Technologies. “Our work together will allow customers to quickly and easily develop and launch projects based on a highly secure solution.  Whether your project starts on the engineers’ workbench or begins as an IT directive, this joint solution will appeal to all organizations that need to overcome the edge to core to cloud challenges of the world we live in today.”

The deviceWISE Asset Gateway software and cloud-based IoT platform from Telit turn industrial network infrastructure into an intelligent Industry 4.0 onramp to the Industrial Internet of Things. deviceWISE provides a logic engine with an extensive library of the machine and industrial protocols and drivers that provide best-in-class edge intelligence. The large library of Industry 4.0 device drivers and protocols interface to PLCs and automation devices from top manufacturers and virtually all other automation equipment commonly found in complex machines in buildings, manufacturing, transportation, utilities, alternative energy, mining, or oil & gas. The deviceWISE drag-n-drop edge-logic engine communicates with external devices or sensors via LAN, USB or serial interface and can monitor digital and analog I/Os. This configuration tool can run triggers, do conditional monitoring, make decisions and take actions.

Telit  (AIM: TCM), is a global leader in Internet of Things (IoT) enablement, with an extensive portfolio of wireless connectivity modules, platforms, virtual cellular IoT operator services, and professional services, empowering hundreds of millions of connected ‘things’ to date, and trusted by thousands of direct and indirect customers, globally.  With nearly two decades of IoT innovation experience, Telit continues to redefine the boundaries of digital business, by delivering secure, integrated end-to-end IoT solutions for many of the world’s largest brands, including enterprises, OEMs, system integrators and service providers across all industries, enabling their pursuit of enterprise digital transformation.

Discreet Ships lustre 2 Color Grading System to Customers Worldwide

Discreet, a division of Autodesk, announced today that lustre 2 is now shipping worldwide. lustre 2 is the next version of Discreet's award-winning* real-time color grading system for digital media and digital intermediate workflows. The lustre system has been used in blockbuster feature films such as Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, X2: X-Men United, and Austin Powers in Goldmember.