Innovation Journal - Cognizant

RETHINK - INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE
points, signaling systems and track circuits through sensors, wireless
devices and on-board systems. The core of the platform comprises a
set of logical blocks that enable:
Acquisition of data
Aggregation and processing
Data storage
Data analytics
Decision support
Reporting
Key features of Intelligent Infrastructure include:
Data management: Enables centralization of data collection, along
with data management activities like archival and contextualization in
the form of actionable insights, for operations and performance.
Data analysis: Helps analyze trends and patterns while monitoring
asset conditions. It detects and classifies failures, performs root cause
analysis of different failures and even develops models that predict the
availability of assets for future operations.
Report generation: Generates reports on performance and reliability
of assets at multiple locations for various categories of users.
Notifications and alerts: Links with asset management and workorder
systems to create alert messages for technicians and
maintenance engineers through rich clients, Web clients and mobile
devices.
Scenarios for Implementation:
Cognizant Intelligent Infrastructure is beneficial in the following
scenarios:
Datacenter monitoring: As an experiment, Intelligent Infrastructure
has been deployed for monitoring data centers at Cognizant. The data
center monitoring system has a wireless sensory network for remote
monitoring and can handle up to 100 sensors. This system can
perform the following:
Send SMS to the data center supervisor for any abnormal changes
in temperature or humidity levels.
Enables supervisors to perform Web-enabled monitoring to
visualize real-time events from the data center.
Connect to any system from the supervisor’s mobile device for
proactive actions.
The initial results have shown an average cost saving of up to 85%,
with a savings of $400 per person per month per data center
management team, in terms of logistics.
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