Give Your IT Network Pervasive Awareness of Physical Assets
What if your IT networks had a clear “understanding” of the physical world around them? NovusEdge adds significant functionality and cost-cutting efficiencies to your IT networks by adding pervasive physical asset awareness – unique actionable intelligence concerning the physical environment and events within it. The result: NovusEdge Asset-Aware Networks®.
NovusEdge systems accomplish this through the integration of diverse systems, such as:
- IT systems including network security, HR systems and others
- Physical security systems such as video surveillance and access control
- Building automation systems such as environmental controls
- And other systems that provide environmental and physical data
By utilizing input from all of these sources, an IT network with NovusEdge solutions – a NovusEdge Asset-Aware Network® – is constantly aware of where personnel and assets are located, their status, and what actions should be taken automatically.
Benefits to Management
NovusEdge Asset-Aware Networks provide added value in three major ways:
- They enhance security through the addition of unique, actionable intelligence
- The lower operating costs through extremely efficient management of energy, network resources and other assets
- They prove compliance with a number of regulations and policies including financial, physical security, medical and others
Enhanced security
With their pervasive awareness of physical assets, NovusEdge Asset-Aware Networks can locate people and assets at any time. This enables a whole new class of applications and solutions that deal with actionable, real-time physical intelligence – not just logical intelligence.
For example: Now the network is aware of a person’s location at the time of login. If location patterns are broken or unusual, alerts can be automatically sent to appropriate managers, permissions can be denied, higher levels of security activated and other actions taken – all automatically, from a single integrated system, using assets you already own.
Efficient management of resources
With pervasive awareness of physical assets, your network can deliver the promise of “green buildings” and “Building 2.0.” However, this is not a solution just for new buildings with advanced infrastructure – it’s for your existing buildings, using existing assets.
For example: Traditional energy management systems merely schedule energy usage. A NovusEdge Asset-Aware Network can be much more precise – with real-time awareness of who is using facilities at any given time. The system knows that if you are in a conference room, lighting or heat can be reduced in your office. If no one is in a facility, hot water supplies can be reduced. All of this is automated, using assets you already own.
Compliance
Because your NovusEdge Asset-Aware Network can identify who had access to physical and network assets – and where and when they had access – applications can automatically generate the complex audit trails required by law or by internal policy.
For example, only NovusEdge consolidates proof-of-compliance into a one-touch solution. The solution automates physical and logical audit-logging processes that are otherwise time-consuming and labor intensive. NovusEdge Compliance solutions do this cost-effectively, by leveraging assets you already own.
Learn more
To learn more about how NovusEdge Asset-Aware Networks can deliver greater security, lower your operating costs and prove compliance instantly, contact us by email, request more information or talk to a NovusEdge Strategic System Integrator.
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