Telenor IoT and PLAATO announce their collaboration to AI enable production data
Telenor IoT has announced a collaboration with PLAATO, a startup on a mission to simplify access to production data from control systems and smart data capture from sensor technologies. The partnership aims to transform the brewing industry, distilling industry and other fermentation-based industries by providing its’ operators with advanced real-time insights and connectivity solutions to increase production efficiency, product quality and increase resource utilisation.
Since 2021, PLAATO has built industrial software and sensor products. The team consists of technology professionals across Europe and the US and has seen global traction since the start. Today they serve over 300 customers across more than 35 countries.
With PLAATO, a brewer can produce more beer with less stress, time and effort. They can see the end-to-end production data in a unified platform, which has not been easily available until now. This gives them access to the complete story of their beer and helps keep any recipe “on track” during production. With increasing investments into artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, PLAATO offers deep insights into brewery performance, keeps track of productivity initiatives and also plans to enable industry peer-group benchmarking to help identify improvement opportunities.
For the connectivity part, Telenor IoT was selected to provide IoT Complete, an entire IoT infrastructure end-to-end solution handled in one place. As PLAATO customers utilise PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) across several parts of their production facility, using different types of equipment and protocols, Telenor IoT’s IoT Complete service has helped to translate these varied control system setups into a standardised format that PLAATO’s software application can utilise. This way PLAATO now offers breweries unique production data and insights, without big investments in custom equipment.