Bosch Launches AIoT Platform Phantom Edge for Real-Time Energy Management

Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) on Wednesday launched an AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform called Phantom Edge. This platform will provide real-time electrical energy consumption, operating usage, electrical parameters and appliance-level information.

Phantom Edge by Bosch

The company highlighted the key features of the platform. It provides granular energy consumption data at an asset level, without the need of installing sub-meters. This enables asset benchmarking, identifying anomalies and drives behavioural change for achieving energy savings and sustainability goals. The company also said that for real-time energy monitoring in retail, residential, mobility, healthcare, agriculture and commercial spaces, it can prove vital.

Bosch is yet to reveal the price for their latest AIoT platform.

The platform also provides real-time information on machines OEE (availability, performance and quality), part count and energy consumption. This allows companies to improve productivity and sustainability in a cost-effective, non-intrusive way. The platform also cuts the need for expensive on-site IT infrastructure.

How it Works

Bosch also explained how the system worked in the statement. Phantom Edge uses non-intrusive sensors to collect power signatures and machine learning (ML) algorithms sitting on the edge. Then, it examines these signatures to provide a real-time view of data. This data includes electrical energy consumption, operating usage, electrical parameters, and appliance-level data. In essence, Phantom Edge makes a digital twin of the actual system.

The company said that the platform comes with a built-in cloud-based SaaS application. This application allows the AIoT platform to send real time alerts and notifications to customers, using which they can act upon the asset's productivity and energy consumption.

Dattatri Salagame, President and MD, RBEI, said, "Bosch's Phantom Edge is a powerful ecosystem designed to be leveraged for industries who are jump starting their digital journey. RBEI's vision is to provide smart solutions for the globe and Phantom Edge is a step in that direction.

Talking about the platform's key applications, Salagame said, "Phantom Edge has potential applications in a number of industries like healthcare, retail, commercial spaces, agriculture, mobility, industrial manufacturing etc.".

Key Specs of Phantom Edge

The Phantom Edge device is built with Arm Cortex 1.6 GHz Speed processor and 2GB RAM to perform powerful AI and ML algorithms and 8GB internal memory to store the data during the connectivity loss.

The device supports WiFi, 2G, 3G, 4G for cloud connectivity and BLE, RS 232 serial and ethernet for communicating with peripheral sensors/assets.