
Automating production processes

Nowadays a number of industrial and business processes still require operator management and handling. Measurements and tallies, the opening or closing of access/entry gates, plant start-up, sensor activation as well as a number of further actions are often operator-performed, thus affecting both costs and efficiency.
Upview is Aitek’s cost-effective solution for the automatic control of your production processes. This open platform integrates into any IT infrastructure by slotting in between your information systems and the end-devices.
Upview allows for unmanned automated production processes – thus avoiding manual checks and activation of procedures and end-devices. Operators will only need to take charge of anomalies or unexpected events.
Upview is your best choice for cost-effective production and business processes.
Why Upview?
… because it’s an open platform able to automate processes and manage end-devices relying on different technologies, independently of quantity, type and positioning.
… because it’s fully integrable into third-party applications. Upview uses IoT standards for data sharing towards external management systems and allows for higher-tier processing via cloud or online dashboard interface.
… because, unlike other market solutions, Upview is fully scalable and customisable via features that meet your needs and integrate into your IT system without interfering with on-going operations or affecting existing procedures.
… because it works in real time. Data acquired from end-devices are readily available without latency-time. Real-time gauging of your plant status!

Strengths
→ Data acquisition, logging and clustering from multiple sources
→ IoT-based communication platform for easy integration into third-party applications
→ Bespoke modular platform that meets highly demanding customer needs
→ Real-time data/events acquisition, via polling
→ Max scalability and management of multiple end-devices via open-communication standards
→ Real-time display of alarms/events on the operator control panel and sent via SMS/email to staff
→ Plant management and failure handling (including causes) without on-site operators
→ System performance assessments via data clustering supplied by Upview
→ Real-time diagnostics and detection of anomalies serving maintenance activities
→ Full integration into other Aitek-owned platforms
Architecture
Upview uses standard internet technology and IoT protocols to acquire end-device status info and increase efficiency thereof according to implemented system logics.
Big data acquisition and processing via Upview are crucial support for any informed strategic and operational decision-making. Upview acquires and clusters data from any source focusing on:
- process events: production, plant start-up, measurements, tallies, plate detection, speed estimation, etc.
- diagnostic events: anomaly, device failure, connection break-down, system unavailable, etc.

Dashboard and operator interfaces
Data acquired via Upview are readily available for business logics application, clustering, statistics and real-time display from customised dashboard and user interfaces.
User-friendly operational dashboards supply constantly up-dated information on system status. Dashboards can be displayed on non-interactive screens such as video walls, led walls or large-format LCD located inside control rooms. Access to the interface is also possible from most smart-phones and tablet browsers.

Software modules
Upview supplies a set of highly-specialised software modules able to assemble bespoke, real-time solutions meant to meet your automation needs.
Automation, control and end-device management modules

Upview-Alert
Automatic alarm generation and notification to third-party systems or users via SMS/email

Upview-Auto Pilot
Business logics for automatic process management

Upview-Call
VOIP-switchboard integration for automatic voice-call routing

Upview-Manual Control
Tools for operator-based management of processes and end-devices

Upview-Asset
Automatic management of distributed end-devices

Upview-Crew
Automatic management of on-site interventions

Upview-Dashboard
Mobile/desktop application for access to real-time, stored and statistical data

Upview-Pass
Badge/pass management (including paperless)

Upview-Tube
Acquisition and storage of photo/video linked to process events from NVR devices

Upview-Device
Acquisition of diagnostics events from field-sensors or end-devices

Upview-IoT
IoT-standard mediated communication interface from/to end-devices

Upview-Transit
Acquisition of transit data from gate automation systems (e.g. Aitek-Sesamo)