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Situational awareness moves public safety to smarter operations
Xalt enables intelligent operations in smart cities to be collaborative and rooted in connected data communities.
Hexagon Solution: HxGN Connect
Challenge: A truly smart city is made up of an ecosystem where all participants benefit and gain value from investments. This highlights the need for enhanced collaboration, where cities can gain a wider shared awareness through a richer context to better inform operations and enable coordination.
Technology Impact: Integrating data from different systems, applications, and IoT sensors is quick and easy with Xalt, a proven data integration platform that powers HxGN Connect’s unique capabilities. With our no-code data integration and interfacing approach, you can quickly integrate with the different systems, applications, and IoT sensors available within a smart city.
Result: HxGN Connect makes intelligent city operations more achievable, far-reaching, and impactful. It bridges gaps, breaks down barriers, and enhances performance and safety for daily planning, operations, and spontaneous emergency and crisis situations.
By 2050, two out of three people will live in urban areas, according to United Nations population experts. IDC predicts that by 2024, spending by smart cities and communities will reach $203 billion with focused areas of investment, such as public safety, civic engagement, and smart city platforms.
A truly smart city is made up of an ecosystem where all participants – from the private and public sectors to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to citizens – benefit and gain value from investments.
This highlights the need for enhanced collaboration, where cities can gain a wider shared awareness that gives richer context around plans, locations, resources, assets, and actions to better inform operations and enable coordination.
Cross-functional collaboration. Shared awareness. Coordinated action. These are significant hallmarks of resilient communities and organizations. But true collaboration can be messy. Technology barriers, such as integration to systems, IoT devices, and applications, as well as people barriers, like politics over data ownership and exchange standards, can doom data-sharing projects before they start. And those that do begin take years to go live, often never reaching past the implementation phase.
Enter HxGN® Connect, a cloud-native, SaaS collaborative workspace that allows you to share data and coordinate action based on different types of data, such as assets, events and incidents, units, cameras, alarms, and more. It complements existing systems, providing a richer unified view of information with built-in messaging and tasking to enable daily, ad hoc engagement and ongoing, structured collaboration.
“XALT enables quick and easy integration to the devices, assets, and systems of record currently present within city agencies, including public safety, transportation, and public works. Xalt is a key differentiator that allows our customers to break down siloes and enable intelligent city operations by simplifying the data integration challenges inherent in any smart city.”
Xalt is Hexagon’s technology platform that enables Hexagon’s solutions to work seamlessly together, leveraging all relevant data and delivering mission-critical intelligence at scale. It provides HxGN Connect with additional interface capabilities to connect multiple systems, databases and machines with a highly configurable no-code business rules engine to solve enterprise-level integration challenges. Its WYSIWYG interface enables real-time debugging and error tracing. Redundancy and load-balancing enable deployments in mission-critical environments where permanent availability is a must.
HxGN Connect, leveraging Hexagon’s Xalt platform, breaks down these silos between not only technology and organizational data, but also organizations and the citizens they serve. The end result is greater shared awareness and efficiency among collaborators.
Integrating data from different systems is quick and easy with Xalt, a proven data integration platform that powers HxGN Connect’s unique data-sharing capabilities. With our DIY approach to data integration, you can even build, manage, and maintain your interfaces. To support the various deployment topologies, it can be deployed almost anywhere from the cloud to the edge or within a DMZ. State-of-the-art security and encryption allow it to operate within existing policies and setups. Its event-based mode of operation makes efficient use of computing resources and scales throughout a variety of resource-constrained and unconstrained environments
XALT scales and accelerates innovation through applied AI, IoT-empowered Hexagon sensors, enterprise-ready applications and mobile apps, data integrations across systems and solutions.
Seamless connectivity anywhere in the network, across digital and physical boundaries including the Edge. By empowering Hexagon’s solutions to do more, Xalt is helping to future-proof customers’ technology – accelerating Hexagon’s mission to empower an autonomous sustainable future.
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