Pitney Bowes and Arrow Electronics Bring Smarter Physical Infrastructure Capabilities to Market through New IoT Collaboration
October 31 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides innovative products, solutions and data to power commerce,
announced today it has signed an agreement with Arrow Electronics,
a leading global provider of engineering, integration and supply
chain services. Together, Pitney Bowes and Arrow Electronics will
enable public sector authorities to securely gather, process and
analyze data collected through IoT devices to improve physical
infrastructure efficiencies.
Public entities across the world are tasked with the challenge
of making their infrastructure smarter. With the increase of
connected devices—from mobile devices to transactions to
sensors—the IoT is generating data that can be used to produce
valuable insights about cities, how they operate, where they can
improve, and what’s the best process to facilitate
enhancements.
Through this collaboration, Arrow and Pitney Bowes will bring to
market a solution that leverages Confirm Intelligent Infrastructure
Management and the Arrow Connect™ platform to quickly, efficiently
and securely process and analyze IoT-generated data captured
through Arrow’s broad array of infrastructure sensors.
Arrow Connect provides a technology-agnostic, universal
data-ingestion platform. Confirm provides visibility of
infrastructure conditions in real time, generates alerts and issues
work orders automatically to streamline the resolution of any
problems with critical infrastructure assets.
For example, Confirm can receive communications from
Arrow-enabled IoT deployments, such as storm drain sensors, to
monitor the water and silt levels in the drainage network for a
given area. If the data identifies that there is a blockage or
failure in the drainage network, which indicates an increased risk
of flooding, the city would be notified and crews can be
automatically sent to investigate and resolve the issue, ensuring
that the city is kept flood-free.
Similarly, the collaboration will also help organizations link
their traffic-flow monitoring systems into Arrow Connect to uncover
problems or anomalies with the traffic speed. Equipped with this
information, organizations can seamlessly deploy safety teams to
keep drivers safe; automatically brighten streetlights to ensure
drivers have the best chance of seeing a problem; and make more
efficient decisions to keep roads flowing better.
“Arrow’s IoT capability spans design, build and device
management across purpose-built IoT solutions and employs some of
the best engineers in the world for connected technologies,” says
Mark Taylor, Senior Vice President of Software Channels, Pitney
Bowes. “This collaboration with Arrow allows Pitney Bowes to offer
a more robust, IoT-ready infrastructure management solution on a
global scale. This is a strategic move for both organizations, as
our clients continue to demand innovation that collects real-time
data and drives efficiency and responsiveness to their
organizations.”
“The Pitney Bowes Confirm Intelligent Infrastructure Management
solution already services 45 percent of the U.K. road network and
140 million citizens worldwide,” says Aiden Mitchell, Vice
President of Global IoT Solutions, Arrow Electronics. “Pitney Bowes
has a proven track record in Infrastructure Management and our
partnership will bring scale to their ability to collect and
process IoT data and turn it into real insight. Our alliance will
create a pathway for our clients to create a truly smarter world to
live in.”
Confirm, is a cloud-based asset data and Intelligent
Infrastructure Management solution, which recently launched in the
U.S. Now, organizations globally can take advantage of this
end-to-end integrated platform that effectively manages asset data
across all phases of the lifecycle from current condition records
management to maintenance and future investment planning.
To learn more about Confirm, visit
https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/location-intelligence/infrastructure-asset-management/eam.html.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company powering
billions of transactions – physical and digital – in the connected
and borderless world of commerce. Clients around the world,
including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on products,
solutions, services and data from Pitney Bowes in the areas of
customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping, mailing, and global ecommerce. And with the
innovative Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, clients can access the
broad range of Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs to drive
commerce. For additional information visit Pitney Bowes, the
Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products,
services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of
electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow
serves as a supply channel partner for more than 125,000 original
equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial
customers through a global network of more than 465 locations
serving over 90 countries. Learn more at www.fiveyearsout.com.
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