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Nokia announced MX Context, a new solution that leverages sensor fusion technology to deliver AI-powered contextual awareness for industrial enterprises. Integrated into the Nokia Edge Compute and AI platform for industrial sites, MX Context processes large amounts of data from different sources, providing real-time actionable insights and intelligent automation to enable operational excellence and enhance decision-making.
Operational technology (OT) environments generate huge quantities of data from machine sensors, positioning systems, and worker-worn devices. Connecting these assets via private wireless enables industries to access real-time data and operational insights. However, the growing complexity of modern OT environments often leads to data silos, restricting enterprises' contextual awareness. Nokia MX Context allows industrial enterprises to integrate, harmonize, and merge sensor data, providing real-time insights to enhance operations.
Nokia MX Context leverages sensor fusion technology to combine multimodal data from different sources and deliver real-time, AI-powered insights for Industry 4.0 use cases. It utilizes Nokia’s on-premise edge industrial compute solutions, MXIE and MX Grid, for processing, as well as the MXIE Data Lake to store structured and unstructured data for historical analysis, and application data access via APIs. MX Context also offers low-code visual development capabilities, enabling users to create logical workflows and design dashboards with minimal coding expertise. It integrates with Nokia MX Workmate, a GenAI assistant that enables natural language-based interactions with connected workers.
MX Context suites are modular and built to create use case-based contextual awareness solutions. The first two MX Context suites and associated user applications are tracking and positioning and worker safety.
Tracking and Positioning: MX Context can ingest and fuse data from various tracking and positioning technologies, like Bluetooth Angle-of-Arrival (i.e., Nokia HAIP), video-based positioning (i.e., Nokia VPOD), worker devices’ GPS, and other MXIE third-party tracking technologies such as HERE HD GNSS and Nordic ID. It provides positioning and ensures tracking continuity across mixed industrial environments to optimize asset utilization, inventory management, processes, and material flow.
Worker Safety: MX Context ingests and fuses different types of data from Nokia sensory solutions like Nokia VPOD, device sensors (i.e., gyroscopes, accelerometers, and microphones), and third-party applications. AI-based processing and fusion of real-time data provides, for the first time, situational awareness and contextual information, enabling the detection of potential accidents or incidents and facilitating the best response, such as triggering an alert, notifying emergency services, or providing real-time guidance to the worker.
As part of the MX Context sensory solutions, Nokia will expand its industrial router portfolio with new variants featuring multi-sensory capabilities, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, voltmeters, and environmental sensors. These routers will improve machine insights and incorporate advanced GNSS chips for more precise outdoor positioning.
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