Gractor teams with HPE OEM to deliver edge solutions for IoT success

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There are trends, and then there are megatrends. The Internet of Things (IoT) belongs firmly in that second category. And it’s no wonder. In today’s hyperconnected society, we have more access to information than at any other point in human history. The concept of collecting and analyzing all that information with sensors and smart objects might just be the next step in our collective evolution. It’s a concept that Gractor, a South Korean IoT innovator, has turned into a business model with a series of business initiatives that transform factories, farms, homes, and cities into smart entities.

Aliot Edge Platform is the IoT platform that turns those agricultural lands into smart farms; abodes into smart homes. Gractor brands the edge compute component as iConnector, the data aggregation component as iLinker, and the data analysis tools iStudio—together they make up the Aliot Edge Platform. The team was looking for a hardware partner that could encourage and enable rapid growth for Gractor and the Aliot Edge Platform. According to Youngho Choi, managing director of Gractor, “We knew we needed an OEM partner with a broad product line that could grow with us, and we needed a partner with worldwide marketing savvy”.

“We had some conversations at the event, and we began to realize HPE had more to offer us than other potential OEM partners were capable of. HPE is famous for being the first OEM manufacturer, and it’s obvious it’s a role they take seriously”, said Choi. Gractor became an HPE OEM partner, and began qualifying work to deliver the edge element of its Aliot Edge Platform solution on HPE GL20 IoT Gateway. The purpose-built gateway server is a ruggedized compute solution designed to be deployed in a variety of industrial and manufacturing environments.

With performance-optimized features and robust compute capabilities, the gateway is built to tackle high data volumes at the edge, wherever that may be. The HPE EL1000 and EL4000 systems offer Gractor the flexibility to deploy processor and memory-intensive solutions at the edge. Gractor saw the HPE GL20 IoT Gateway as the perfect fit for creating an iConnector appliance with Aliot Edge Platform software preinstalled on HPE GL20 hardware.

As Gractor looks to the future of smart cities, smart factories, and smart farms, it can go forward knowing its partnership with HPE will support its growth and vision.

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Nabanita Maji
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