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OpSense and Machfu announce technology partnership to enable secure and flexible infrastructure for retail and food service operations monitoring.WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OpSense, a real-time continuous monitoring SaaS platform, today announced a technology partnership with Machfu, an industrial Internet of Things innovator, to provide an application and connectivity solution that simplifies IoT implementations. OpSense and Machfu collaborated to provide a solution to improve food safety, manage regulatory compliance, and reduce labor costs. Seasoned Brands, a growing Lebanese-American restaurant and bakery chain headquartered in Cleveland, OH with brands that include Aladdin's Eatery, Forage and Jasmine has selected OpSense with Machfu for monitoring environmental conditions in their bakery and restaurants. Melvin Reyes, Director of IT for Seasoned Brands commented on the recent installation, "We are very happy with how OpSense and Machfu have given us improved visibility and confidence in our operations, ensuring the food we provide is safe and high quality." The IIoT market is relatively fragmented, with evolving standards, to guide how sensors communicate and information is transferred, there is an opportunity to lead. The Machfu gateway is able to connect any industrial device to any back-end system easily. "Machfu is known for their robust platform that is served in the gateway appliance," commented Stu Gavurin, CEO, OpSense. "The partnership provides the right combination of infrastructure fo our clients and a single point of management and control as we deploy OpSense across many locations. I see this partnership as critical to the scalability and growth of OpSense and ultimately its longer term value to our clients." "Our platform solves problems at scale in an affordable way," said Prakash Chakravarthi, CEO, Machfu. "Our devices are engineered for machines like a smart phone. We provide connectivity from the full spectrum of physical and wireless interfaces including fiber, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Wifi, and LoRa. Our architecture supports edge computing and protocol translation while also supporting OpSense's cloud-based platform allowing for sophisticated features including machine learning on-board. Our collaboration with OpSense delivers a powerful vertical industry solution." The ability to quickly distill information from connected devices into something meaningful and actionable is where OpSense excels. Real-time wireless monitoring connects facilities, equipment, and processes, delivering information about performance and energy costs to those who need it. About Machfu About OpSense SOURCE OpSense |