KX and [ui!] deliver advanced data management and analytics for smart city solution provider ENE.HUB

Founded in Australia in 2013 out of a desire to take part in and help shape the growing push to use technology and data to improve urban life for people, ENE.HUB is now a fully integrated smart city infrastructure provider with operations in Australia, the United States, and Japan.

ENE.HUB plans, funds, builds, maintains, and manages connected networks of smart infrastructure and products—sophisticated smart city enablers integrated into elegant lighting structures and other street furniture. Its IoT data and analytics platform, ‘e3,’ has been built from the ground up to help city authorities monitor and control a range of environmental, social, and connectivity services.

Designed to integrate legacy systems seamlessly, the platform allows for real-time visualization of data and sophisticated analysis. Use cases can be simply and effectively developed, enabling authorities to improve operations and increase efficiencies for their communities.

The Challenge

For smart city services to be effective, they need to respond in real-time to changing conditions such as traffic levels, air pollution, water levels, and other individual data points. ENE.HUB needed a real-time analytics platform capable of managing large volumes and velocities of data while also being scalable for additional datasets and advanced smart services.

Cities are constantly evolving heterogeneous entities with multiple systems generating data in various formats. These serve many stakeholders, each with unique data needs and challenges. ENE.HUB required an enterprise-class platform robust, secure, and adaptable to seamlessly integrate with common enterprise requirements such as single sign-on and existing data architectures.

Why KX?

Working alongside [ui!] as the smart city engineering partner, KX empowers the delivery of advanced smart city solutions by providing real-time data visualization and sophisticated analysis for the e3 platform. Capable of integrating with legacy systems, KX ingests, captures, processes, and analyzes large volumes of data in real-time, comparing it with historical datasets for advanced insights and faster decision-making.

KX’s advanced visualization and dashboard capabilities enable effective management of diverse smart city services and the rapid understanding of valuable data insights. For example, by instrumenting city car parks, integrating with existing car park management services, and sharing AI-driven analytics with citizens, the e3 solution running KX reduces the time required to find parking, decreases traffic congestion, and lowers carbon footprints.

Moreover, KX offers enterprise-grade security and service continuity, ensuring [ui!] delivers against SLAs for each ENE.HUB deployment. KX’s elegant simplicity and infinite scalability also allow [ui!] to develop its smart city services stack further, encompassing communications, energy, environment, transport, security, and media.

Designed to process and analyze large volumes of time-series, machine-generated data at speed and scale, KX was the ideal choice for [ui!] and ENE.HUB. With deployments in 35 cities and municipalities—including eight as part of the e3 platform—KX supports ENE.HUB’s operations in areas such as California State University, Fullerton, and Brisbane City Council. This reach is expected to more than double by the end of 2023.

Key benefits

KX delivers the following advantages for ENE.HUB and [ui!]:

• Seamless integration of datasets: Whether it’s traffic, environment, lighting, or security data, KX captures, stores, analyzes, and visualizes it to improve service delivery, making cities safer, more efficient, and better places to live.
• Enhanced time-to-value: KX enables rapid insights and faster deployment. [ui!] can transition from order to deployment in days for existing use cases and weeks for new opportunities.
• Enterprise-class platform: KX integrates with existing applications and architectures, offering a robust, adaptable solution.
• Rapid data visualization: KX’s dashboards provide engineers, developers, and smart city managers with actionable insights to develop new services.
• Futureproof capabilities: No matter the scale or complexity of new datasets or devices, KX ensures smart city systems can evolve and adapt to meet emerging challenges.

Conclusion

By combining [ui!]’s expertise with KX’s advanced data management and analytics capabilities, ENE.HUB empowers cities to deliver smarter, safer, and more efficient services. With KX’s scalable and secure platform, the e3 solution is set to revolutionize smart city services worldwide.

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