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SmartCloud is a leading provider of reasoning technology to monitor and control smart infrastructures
BIG REASONING to manage mission-critical environments that are massive, real-time and unforgiving.
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Big Reasoning: A New Paradigm
When the data is Big, disperse, and fast, real-time reasoning takes on additional challenges - especially when you've got to reason in real-time while managing complex processes. To handle these challenges, SmartCloud's CRex platform unifies three programming models into a single paradigm called, "Big Reasoning":
Stream Processing: Separates torrential data into manageable parallel dataflows that are directly manipulated by complex event processing (CEP) without relying on an inefficient external rules engine.
Semantic Web: Represents knowledge using semantic web ontologies to better identify and track data relationships while enabling temporal reasoning in the past, current (real-time), and future (simulation).
Workflow Programming: Orchestrates tasks and data while managing complex constraints in a way that can deal with exceptional situations, interruptions, and failures.
SmartCloud solves the Big Data challenges of real-time industrial automation
SmartCloud's Big Reasoning Engine unifies three core technologies
CRex
The CRex platform deploys its solutions in the cloud.This means customers do not have to worry about building and maintaining infrastructure to handle any unexpected processing demands. Our data-hosting centers are highly resilient and secure. Just as important, it's quicker and easier to move customer solutions from the test environment to live operation.
Highlights
- Founded in 2009 by industrial AIexecutives.
- Massachusetts C-corporation. Breakthrough reasoning engine for mission-critical applications using AI for industrial Big Data environments: "Big Reasoning".
- Ideal technology for industrial "Internet of Things".
- Significant market traction in energy and utilities with marquee Smart Grid customers.
- 2011 Gartner Cool Vendor in Energy & Utilities.
- Rockwell strategic investment in 2013.
- Microsoft-based including Azure for cloud deployment.
Our reasoning engine solves smart grid infrastructure challenges
- Semantic Knowledge Base (KB): Represents knowledge using semantic ontologies to better identify and track data relationships while enabling temporal reasoning in the past, current (real-time), and future (simulation). Solves the fusion problem.
- Multi-agent AI Reasoning: Reasoning in hierarchies of (internal and external) models and deploy control where it's needed while retaining holistic view. "Big compute in the cloud, small compute in the device or sensor".
- Orchestration: Orchestrates tasks and data flows while managing complex constraints in a way that can deal with exceptional situations, interruptions, and failures.
SmartCloud's technology solves Big Data challenges in utility infrastructures
- Data from thousands of sources (not a few)
- Unprecedented volumes
- Data velocity and response in milliseconds not minutes; (real-time not batch)
- Data and control across a grid (not one location)
- Data dictionaries that vary and change frequently (external data and devices to be integrated)
- Unforgiving cyber-physical world with data corruption, faulty equipment, lost communication, security threats…
- Sophisticated reasoning including time-based
- Modeling/ simulation
- Situation Awareness
- Open-loop and closed-loop control
- Reasoning distributed in cloud and/or devices