A DUNOON based businessman is taking technologies developed in Scotland aimed at enabling people to lead safer, longer, happier lives in their own homes, to the care sector in Australia.
The founder of Archangel Cloud, Tom Morton, is on a month-long trip to Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney to discuss collaborations and partnerships with a number of health and housing focused firms in the country.
Archangel Cloud is described as a vendor-neutral middleware platform for IT management. That means it manages various applications, systems or devices together. It acts as an operational command centre for organisations managing data from what’s called “the internet of things” or IoT.
Tom Morton explained: “From air quality to energy usage, motion monitoring to temperature readings, this never-ending flow of data delivered by IoT sensors needs to be handled by real time dashboards that turn raw data into insights that allow decision-makers to make decisions.
“The issues affecting health, care and housing in Australia largely mirror UK concerns. While the commissioning mechanism may be different there, the issues created by fragmented data systems exist in both countries.
“Ultimately, we share the same priorities and that is to improve lives and allow individuals to live longer, safer lives within their own homes.”
He told this newspaper his trip will be aimed at “cementing partnerships and creating a number of projects that demonstrate the benefits of proactive, predictive and preventive technologies”.
Mr Morton added: “Making IoT data transparent and actionable in real time leads to organisations and their decision-makers delivering improved safety, reduced costs and increased sustainability.
“Data that was previously invisible becomes measurable and, ultimately, actionable and manageable.”
He said it means dealing with the complex and ever-increasing nature of data acquisition. Mr Morton said that requires the kind of analysis only technology can deliver and it all leads to better outcomes.
Real-time dashboards, such as those built by Archangel, provide an invaluable tool when it comes to the immediate and impactful interpretation and analysis of the vast amounts of data generated by IoT sensors.
Tom Morton concludes: “Helping to deliver better insight and outcomes across an increasingly wide range of parameters, dashboards play a critical role in any data technology infrastructure and act as the point of contact between IoT and humans.”
