What Is Fusion Connect

Autodesk® Fusion Connect is the leading enterprise-focused, cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The platform's SaaS solutions enable bi-directional communication with devices in the field whether or not they were originally architected for IP communication. In doing so, Fusion Connect enables its customers to monitor, analyze and control these devices, ensuring uptime and dynamic scheduling of cycles for optimal asset utilization. The Fusion Connect platform leverages easy-to-use configuration tools and a hyper-scale system that powers communications and data analysis from anything, over any network, anywhere.

Importantly, the Company's SaaS platform enables users without any software development or coding expertise to build custom connectivity solutions for machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT applications across a wide array of verticals, making it widely accessible to both IT- and Business-centric organizations.

Product

Fusion Connect's cloud-based IoT platform serves not only as a development tool, but also provides turn-key applications and M2M/IoT solution templates. Fusion Connect provides customers with an extensive library of existing protocol/vendor device adapters, optional wireless connections from major global data networks, light ERP workflows and business management tools, enabling scalability of the connected service.

A key tenet of the Fusion Connect platform is its easy-to-use, drag & drop analytic engine and user interface creation tools, empowering customers to develop complex applications (ie. Visio meets Excel Workflow) while forgoing the need for a dedicated software engineering team. Fusion Connect's no-coding analytics and drag & drop application building is paired with unique device messaging capabilities. These capabilities offer the highest scalability for millions of messages from different devices and data sources, and include sensors from multiple vendors as well as data from existing connected device platforms and other aggregation points. The ease of use afforded by the platform cuts down on time to deploy business functionality materially as compared to traditional heavy compiled and premise-based IoT applications. Major functionality includes:

• An extensive device messaging infrastructure which balances high load inbound and outbound message streams across different physical computer servers and database storage options
• An object-based modeling system for defining things, events and work processes
• A visual programming environment which is a front-end to Java 7 and can be accessed visually or through Java Expression Language and XML Markup. This environment is tightly integrated with the modeling system and web page building toolset.
• Drag-and-drop web page building that assembles real time dynamic queries resulting in data sets presented in tables, maps, charts, diagrams, pictures and business forms. This query builder also exposes select data sets to an open API.
• Location-based services engine for mobile and fixed coordinate-based asset tracking, information layers and location analysis
• A statistical and analytics database modeling tool for housing BI data sets
• An app store and application management and support tools
• User permission controls to strictly manage which application configuration tools each user can access, and which subsets of application data each user can view.