PMY Group partners with IOTech for enhanced venue management solutions

The two companies are integrating IOTech’s edge computing and Edge Builder management platforms with PMY’s Smart Operating Platform

IOTech, the edge software company’s partnership with PMY Group (PMY), a leading independent technology company will drive innovation in the venue management industry.

The collaborating will see the integration of IOTech’s edge software technologies with PMY’s venue management solutions.

The partnership will integrate IOTech’s Edge Xpert and Edge XRT computing platforms and Edge Builder edge management platform with PMY’s Smart Operating Platform.

Through its Smart Operating Platform, PMY provides a technology overlay and services for major events, festivals and conventions, including Grand Slam tennis tournaments and other major sporting events.  The platform provides a centralised solution to monitor system health and performance; analyse crowd movement and usage patterns in real-time; automate the communication and response to operational issues; and predict future behaviour to make optimal business decisions.

PMY Group was founded in 2009 with their first client being the Flemington Racecourse of the Victoria Racing Club. Soon thereafter they supported many other Australian stadia including the Sydney Cricket Ground (Sydney), Etihad (now Marvel) Stadium (Melbourne), and Optus Stadium (Perth) to embrace technology and enhance their venues.

Joe Costanzo, Chief Technology Officer at PMY notes “PMY is always interested in enhancing and adding new services to our Smart Operating Platform. Working with IOTech, we can introduce a number of new venue services that complement our existing portfolio. These services will be piloted during the coming months in a risk-free way for our customers.”

Edge Xpert and Edge XRT address IOT connectivity and IT/OT integration. Edge Builder provides dynamic edge management capabilities to allow companies such as PMY to deploy their platforms to customers quickly and at scale. It also provides the ability to maintain and extend a deployment easily, regardless of whether the platform is in permanent or temporary use, as in the case of special sport and entertainment events.

IOTech will progressively construct and pilot a baseline product to support use cases for sports venue/smart cities customers, based on IoT (Internet of Things) edge technologies. An initial use case will focus on monitoring and compiling bus occupancy and locations. Subsequent pilots will look at crowd movement and size data within venues, and analysing parking facility usage.

Keith Steele, CEO of IOTech Systems adds “IOTech is excited to partner with PMY to deliver new and enhanced venue management services in the sports and entertainment industry.Through our open, comprehensive and flexible edge solutions, we’re driving IoT innovation and adoption”.

IOTech builds and deploys vendor-neutral software platforms and tools to drive IoT (Internet of Things) innovation, global market adoption, velocity and scale. IOTech leverages an open-source ecosystem to collaboratively improve time to market, develop global channel partnerships and achieve pervasive adoption of its software products.

PMY Group was founded in 2009 with their first client being the Flemington Racecourse of the Victoria Racing Club. Soon thereafter they supported many other Australian stadia including the Sydney Cricket Ground (Sydney), Etihad (now Marvel) Stadium (Melbourne), and Optus Stadium (Perth) to embrace technology and enhance their venues.

For more information on IOTech go to iotechsys.com/ and for more PMY go to pmygroup.com/   

Image: The partnership will integrate IOTech’s Edge Xpert and Edge XRT computing platforms and Edge Builder edge management platform with PMY’s Smart Operating Platform.