1. What is Fogwing IIoT Platform?

As the name suggests, Fogwing is an Industrial IoT Platform available as a Service for Industrial automation. It helps you unlock hidden data of your environment and equipment to automate decisions. Fogwing helps Connect, Collect, Analyze and Automate Industrial operations as a feasible next generation solution.



2. What are the features of Fogwing IIoT Platform?

Fogwing Platform provides plenty of features and functions to build IoT solutions. The following are some of the key capabilities listed.


IIoT Platform as a Service
Secure Private IoT Network
Cloud Infrastructure
Secure Device Access
IoT Device Agnostics
Cloud Storage
Data Rules Engine
Data Analytics
Web Experience 
Notification
Downlink Command Center
Cloud Integration

 

3. What are the pricing options of Fogwing Platform?

Fogwing offers subscription plans for Start-ups, SMBs and Enterprise. Subscription plans are categorized as Community, Startup and Enterprise. Community operates at no cost. Startup, $10 per month and Enterprise, $50 per month. Fogwing features vary with subscription opted. To learn more visit https://www.fogwing.io/



4. How does Fogwing Operate?

Fogwing operates with a functional hierarchy of its own. With Organization, Tenant and User as three broad categories of users. Fogwing includes Application, Edge, IoT Hub Access, Data Rules, Command, Analytics, Attributes, SDKs Repository, Audit Logs, Notification and Data Storage.


Organization - Each instance of the Fogwing should have only one organization. Super Admin is the owner of Organization setup. Since Enterprise Cloud environment is multi-tenant, Organization level of controls are owned by Factana (unless customer purchases a dedicated environment) .

Tenant - Tenant is a sub-organization owned by each customer registered in Fogwing Enterprise Cloud. This includes community users, small, medium enterprise who subscribed to Fogwing Enterprise Cloud.


5. How can I create an Account in Fogwing Platform?

https://enterprise.fogwing.net/register

Initially users can register to create an account from the above link. Upon registration, the user will be identified as a community user. Once they login to the application, they can upgrade using the ‘Upgrade’ option.


6. What is an Application in Fogwing IIoT Platform?

The application is the most critical one to manage the IoT edge devices, data rules, data storage and data analytics uniformly. In Fogwing, Application is a group of edge devices or LoRaWAN Node/Gateway connected together virtually as one application. In order to create and configure any devices, collect data by group, handle rule and other operational data analysis by group, the user should first declare the applications. Each user may create multiple applications depending the use cases and grouping needs.