The Phizzle Edge Puck is said to be the first purpose-built computer inside a gateway that is malware-hardened to normalise data on the IoT edge.

Launched this week, the purpose-built computer inside a gateway is malware-hardened to format and normalise data from any device or machine in edge use cases, including pharma manufacturing, building automation and AI systems.

“The promise of the IoT edge has been limited by the problem of data formatting, making it nearly impossible to automate workflows without some kind of manual intervention,” said Ben Davis, CEO of California-based Phizzle. “That’s why we are working with pharma manufacturers like Merck to format and normalise data from air particle counters into laboratory information management systems.”

The Edge Puck has three fundamental innovations in one integrated platform:

• A computer system is housed within the puck, which contains Phizzle’s software, including a device agent and a data formatting engine that normalises data for any database system.
• The puck itself is a gateway that solves the problem of connectivity to both any instrument and the necessary IT infrastructure.
• The software is read-only, meaning it can’t be altered or manipulated by malware.

“Our microservices architecture software is at the heart of the innovation in the Edge Puck,” said Phizzle’s chief innovation officer Michael Patrick. “Data formatting in a vendor-agnostic way isn’t possible with traditional architectures.”

Headquartered in San Francisco, Phizzle (www.phizzle.com) specialises in automating and digitising scientific lab instruments used in pharma and other clean manufacturing environments. The vast majority of these instruments are not connected to a cloud-based system to harmonise or digitise their data. Phizzle has a patented IoT offering that can remotely operate multiple types and vendors of lab instruments from the cloud.

For a webinar about the Edge Puck, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u5Cf6O5xgA.