During the last years, Internet of Things has experienced a significant growth and 2020 has been its most successful year. The coronavirus crisis has raised the market regarding the remote control and monitoring needs for facilities, establishments and factories. In 2021, the sector will undergo a new evolution to achieve these new challenges caused by this new scenario.

Nowadays, nobody will call into question that LoRa™ is a fundamental technology in the IoT world. It can be used on a great many different applications where long-distance device communication and cabling cost reduction are required in an efficient way. Even so, there are five applications where LoRa™ is truly beneficial at the level of both performance and costs reduction.

As PickData, we firmly believe in solutions like Node-RED, because those allow you to focus on what really matters, bring our added value to the solutions. We have gone one step further on the integration of eManager and Node-RED creating customized nodes for each of our expansion modules.

During the last years, two Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies have grown significantly in the world of the Internet of Things. NB-IoT and LTE-M will compete for the throne of the low bandwidth cellular communications in the coming years.

Cloud computing has significantly changed the data management during the last 10 years. Most of the companies have already implemented IoT solutions thanks to the power and reliability of cloud computing. Many people talk about scalability, low maintenance and cost-effectiveness, but cloud is much more than that.

eManager is an OEM industrial controller which is equipped with a high-performance control unit with a Linux Yocto embedded and Node-RED software integrated. The device includes RS-232/485 serial communications, an Ethernet 10/100 port and Wi-Fi communications. Two versions, eManager and eManager Pro, with different options of CPU clock, flash storage or RAM memory. Both models can be expanded with a large list of expansion modules.

From the beginning of programming, one of the industry’s main challenges has been to facilitate the applications development to simplify the integration between the hardware devices, the software and us, the humans. Thanks to Node-RED we are much closer of this goal. Programming, without programming.

We are manufacturers, and we know the effort, time and costs involved in creating a customized and certified industrial hardware from ground zero. eMOD is a new hardware system that brings a solution to all these needs. We have evolved the modularity concept to enable the creation of fully customized industrial devices without R&D costs.

It is well know that the more facilities you have to handle, the less time you have to manage each one. In addition, when you exceed a number of establishments, hotels or restaurants, you are no longer able to separately analyze each facility. Nowadays it is as much important to capture your installations’ data as knowing how to manage it in an efficient way. This process is based on filtering this data to perform a fast and effective analysis.

2020 has begun. A year where the business world will be more competitive than ever and where increasing the productivity without major expenses will be a need. We must be aware that if we don’t measure, we won’t get data, and if we don’t get data, we won’t take the right decisions.