Oregon-based Rigado has announced the Presto Kit, a plug-and-play kit for real-time monitoring of commercial locations. It lets smart office, retail and logistics teams collect key data and automate manual processes.
 
For use with Microsoft Azure IoT, the kit can shrink the time it takes to prove the value of real-time monitoring use cases.
 
“The goal of a pilot is often to quickly evaluate the potential of a given business use case,” said Kevin Tate, CMO of Rigado. “Yet, for many organisations, the sheer complexity of creating a device-to-cloud data pipeline prevents them from creating a useful or timely pilot. Our Presto Kit leverages the plug-and-play capabilities of Azure IoT Central to create a real-time data pipeline right out of the box, enabling enterprises to accelerate their IoT projects.”
 
The kit achieves this goal thanks to the flexibility and security of Rigado’s Cascade IoT gateway and edge Connect software, combined with the low-cost and extensibility of Rigado’s growing Bluetooth sensor and device ecosystem. Further, it leverages the plug-and-play speed and scalability of Azure IoT Central to gather and use data for Azure IoT and Azure apps such as Power BI and Dynamics.
 
“Ecosystem partners like Rigado actively help teams unlock the value of IoT,” said Sam George, corporate vice president for Azure IoT. “With Azure IoT Central as the foundation for the Presto Kit, Rigado streamlines the data that fuel alerts, insights and enterprise applications that enable IoT as a core driver of retail, logistics and smart building value streams from core strategy to driving better business outcomes.”
 
The kit lets teams instantly start gathering real-time data about their environment, including elements such as temperature, occupancy and activity. It also includes action buttons to trigger configurable alerts and automations.
 
Specifically, it includes:

• A Rigado IoT gateway with 90 days of included LTE connectivity, pre-configured for plug-and-play integration to Azure IoT Central. The gateway also includes Rigado’s Cascade edge-as-a-service secure management and updates.
• Eight sensors, two each of temperature, activity, occupancy and action buttons from Rigado’s pre-integrated list of partner devices.
• An Azure IoT Central application template built by Rigado that includes a starter dashboard and customisable alerts.

The kit addresses use cases such as asset and inventory tracking, space optimisation, and food safety monitoring, helping operations teams identify opportunities to save money, reduce risk and automate their business.

“The Presto Kit enables us to get customer solutions up and running within minutes, allowing us to quickly explore and validate the potential of real-time data,” said Alex Tilcock, head of IoT at Luxoft. “This lets us quickly demonstrate the potential business value of IoT use cases, and – because the Rigado solution is built with enterprise-grade Azure technologies – quickly accelerate to pilot and full production roll-out.”

The Rigado edge-as-a-service platform is deployed in more than 20,000 locations across 75 countries. Rigado connects more than six million devices for enterprise IoT including smart office and buildings, connected retail, and intelligent logistics. Rigado is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with EMEA offices in London.