Aruba and EnOcean bridge the IT/IoT divide
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Devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) are the eyes and ears of smart buildings, and they are given voice by the secure IT connectivity infrastructure through which they talk with control applications. Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is focused on IoT-friendly IT infrastructure, making control systems simpler to deploy, more secure, and easier to maintain. EnOcean is a strategic partner on that journey, and with the October release of version 8.4 of the Aruba Operating System (AOS) we will together have achieved a huge step forward.
Easily connected via BLE radio
AOS 8.4 enables Aruba’s wide range of indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi access points with integrated Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) radios to interoperate with EnOcean’s BLE Easyfit devices. By simply selecting “EnOcean” from a drop-down menu, and then entering the location to which the EnOcean data should be sent, the access point is ready to go. Regardless of whether access points are deployed in branch offices, a single building, a campus, or a multinational corporation, the process is the same.
Aruba AP-315 Wi-Fi Access Point
Single solution for data and control
Aruba ships millions of access points every year for smart home, retail, healthcare, hospitality, education, service provider, enterprise, industrial, manufacturing, airline, and government customers worldwide through a network of more than 85,000 resellers and OEMs. Example customers include The Home Depot, Jumeirah Group Hotels, NTT, Cambridge University, United Airlines, Microsoft, and Time Warner. Today these customers require separate infrastructure for lighting control, leak detection, door/window open/close, occupancy, and temperature/humidity sensing. AOS 8.4 is a game changer, allowing customers to leverage one common infrastructure for both data and control.
Aruba Edgeline Gateway and Server
A broad network
In some applications, customers may want to process EnOcean device data on site using control applications, or process and forward the control data to cloud applications like Azure IoT. Aruba has you covered there as well. Aruba’s Edgeline gateways and servers offer a variety of communication options (including cellular), data interfaces (serial, analog, digital, ModBus, CAN), CPU horsepower (up to 64 Xeon cores), and storage.
The ease with which EnOcean’s Easyfit devices can be added to an Aruba network – without the need for any new IT hardware – makes the solution very compelling for customers. And Aruba’s expansive customer base and broad network of resellers offer immediate new sell-to opportunities for EnOcean OEMs.
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