Arcom has been appointed an IBM Advanced Business Partner for Developers in the IBM PartnerWorld™ program and, together with IBM, has launched the first end-to-end telemetry integration solution. Telemetry integration is the integration of remote monitoring and control devices into mainstream business systems. Streamlining the process of collecting, distributing and utilising data in today's competitive marketplace is essential to improve business performance. The objective is to minimise the time and cost of data acquisition whilst maximising the use of data across multiple applications. This means delivering data efficiently from remote devices as diverse as flow meters and pressure sensors in the process control environment to batch counters and checkweighers in a factory production line directly into back-office applications. Arcom's solution provides an information bridge between front-end business operations and the IT-based business systems, or enterprise applications. Arcom and IBM have developed the TCP/IP-based protocol to deliver data directly from remote devices and data producers into IBM's WebSphere MQ Integrator from where it can be distributed directly to multiple applications. The protocol has been designed to meet the demands of a new generation of network connected field devices, with particular application in the manufacturing, utilities and energy industries. The key benefit of this system is that it enables real time data to be supplied to any application within the business, reducing the time and cost of manual monitoring. Further advantages are that the low data overhead ensures it has very little impact on existing local area networks and is also cost effective over dial-up, radio or satellite communication channels.

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