Nexiona
Bringing Data Sovereignty in All Things IoT

When IoT product specialist Nexiona and globally renowned Spanish pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Grifols S.A. (GRF: BME) came together, a remarkable partnership was set in motion. The collaborative efforts of the two companies laid the foundation for their long-term and robust relationship.

In response to the need for secure data management and privacy protection, Grifols adopted data sovereignty measures. With its multinational operations and the regular cross-border movement of sensitive data, the company leveraged private IoT solutions to securely collect and store critical information from plasma and blood analytic equipment across laboratories, hospitals, and donation centers around the world. Providing the technological backbone that allows Grifols to exercise complete control over its data is Nexiona.

It's ground-breaking product, MIIMETIQ, played a pivotal role in helping Grifols define a digital services portfolio based on IoT data from diagnostic equipment. The companies worked together to develop a pilot project that successfully demonstrated the value of the product and paved the way for future product launches. Impressed by the value brought by Nexiona, Grifols entrusted the company to remotely connect plasma analytic devices worldwide and develop the entire ecosystem of required IoT platforms.

With MIIMETIQ, Nexiona brings its vision of smart IoT solutions to life, acting as a catalyst for change in the IoT domain. The company places data security and privacy at the forefront of all its products and services, establishing data ownership as a non-negotiable aspect of its offerings.

Data Ownership: Driving the Next Phase of IoT

Nexiona went against the grain of conventional IoT practices that focused on data exchange between the cloud and devices and developed private platforms with a focus on data ownership, integrity, and privacy.
“Our customers are the owners of the platform, not users. This is what sets us apart in the industry,” says Jaume Rey, founder and managing director of Nexiona.

As platform owners, businesses can deploy Nexiona’s multi-deployment IoT solutions on the private or public cloud, on-premise, or even in a hybrid environment, and set different data accessibility levels. Unlike other products available in the market, these platforms are partly-closed source solutions. Nexiona personalizes the platform to cater to its client’s unique requirements, and even enables them to re-license or resell it under their brand name. Clients own the source code, evolve the platform in accordance with their changing operational requirements, and keep all data and platforms under full control. As Rey reiterates, it is all about data ownership.

By gaining total control over data, businesses can protect sensitive and valuable information, maintain compliance with data protection laws and gain a competitive advantage, fundamentally reducing associated risks and costs. As they expand, businesses can add additional functionalities to their IoT platforms, integrate auxiliary data sources and digitalize their operations as changing market conditions demand. This product roadmap ownership allows clients to centralize data from other software sources and holistically view them from a single pane of glass.

Nexiona brings such remarkable, custom-developed IoT solutions by the virtue of MIIMETIQ, which is taking industries by storm and changing the trajectories of the IoT toward data privacy and ownership.

MIIMETIQ is Nexiona’s proprietary software platform for IoT that provides the necessary tools for connecting, managing and analyzing IoT devices and generated data. It enables users to seamlessly collect and visualize data, curate customized dashboards and automated responses to events and data patterns and make data-driven decisions. Nexiona offers MIIMETIQ in the form of two modules–MIIMETIQ NO-CODE and MIIMETIQ ARCHITECT–that offer different levels of functionalities and customizations.

Businesses that attempt to quickly and easily connect IoT devices, and visualize and analyze data can leverage MIIMETIQ NO-CODE to swiftly create simple automated workflows and responses, without needing technical expertise and coding knowledge. MIIMETIQ ARCHITECT, conversely, is designed for more advanced users and developers who require higher levels of customization and command over their IoT ecosystems. ARCHITECT is adorned with more robust and flexible sets of tools for connecting and managing IoT devices, as well as integrating them with other third-party systems, services and applications. NO-CODE is directed towards accessibility and streamlined experience, while ARCHITECT offers more advanced technical capabilities.

“We help our clients monetize services in IoT and create a roadmap for Industry 4.0. With this roadmap, we develop the solution for them using MIIMETIQ,” adds Rey.
Keeping MIIMETIQ as the cornerstone of design, Nexiona has developed solutions that are capable of an array of functionalities, including monitoring signals from production lines, to receiving millions of daily readings from field IoT devices. The developed IoT solutions are deployed for predictive maintenance, monitoring, physical system tracking and creating industrial data lakes. Using MIIMETIQ, businesses can offer services based on equipment data while having total rights over them. Users can automate low-value operations to reduce costs and focus on mission-critical tasks and objectives.
Using the remote maintenance capabilities of MIIMETIQ, businesses can monitor the performance of their assets, track alarms and have a comprehensive view of their IoT infrastructure. The integration functionalities, on the other hand, allow users to integrate advanced analytics (AI/ML) technologies and improve their analytical horsepower.

Optimizing Operations in Industry 4.0 with Data-driven Analytics

Having broken ground with the original cohorts of Industry 4.0 in Germany, Rey and his team deliver immense value to their clients and enable them to successfully deploy high-ROI IoT platforms. Nexiona offers audit and consulting services based on the concepts and methodologies formulated by Fraunhofer Institute and Acatech. Back then, Acatech had developed a unique methodology to define the level of maturity of any industrial business regarding best practices, in turn, defining the concept of Industry 4.0. Nexiona is certified with such methodologies. Since 2019, the company has been a certified partner in Spain to offer these services, alongside Industry 4.0 maturity centre in Germany for Spanish businesses. It creates industrial solutions and data lakes that enable digitalization through IoT, advanced analytics, and data usage.

Nexiona evaluates the maturity level at which a department, industrial plant, or business remains.

Once the roadmaps are obtained, the company defines how to install the platforms and calculates project priorities based on ROI, interactions, and technologies. It then installs the IoT platforms, ensuring successful and efficient deployment.

“Our service processes are very holistic, fast, and highly economic. We are a one-stop shop for all things IoT,” adds Rey.

By providing comprehensive IoT solutions and services, Nexiona fundamentally saves businesses from negotiating with multiple vendors for their diverse requirements and enables them to connect the dots in their IoT requirements. In doing so, users can build an ecosystem that addresses their unique needs and substantially augments their operational performance. They can collect data from various equipment, machines and production lines in their factories and integrate them with corporate IT systems, like ERPs, CRMs, BMS and SCADA. The IoT platforms integrate all the data from the factory into one database, harmonize the data and align it for future analysis. The generated data allows for the creation of applications for energy efficiency, quality control, production traceability, KPIs, and more.

“We prepare and collect data of any nature from the factory and compile them into a database where clients can consume and analyze it in real-time. This is the next generation of data management in the 21st century,” elaborates Rey.
Businesses can run their IoT infrastructure on their own or can trust Nexiona to manage it. The company supervises the infrastructure of service-level agreements, functioning as the primary administrator for managing their data.

A True Partner in IoT-based Digital Transformation

As Rey staunchly believes, Nexiona’s experience and shrewd technical acumen enable it to deliver beyond client expectations and optimize their business models. Generating concrete results is a litmus test of commitment, and Nexiona has demonstrated its mission readiness on numerous occasions. In addition to Grifols, the company is currently engaged with the CELSA Group™, a European industry-leading producer of long steel products and solutions.

CELSA has 50 factories across Norway, France, the UK, Spain and Poland, and it leverages Nexiona’s IoT expertise to digitally transform them. Nexiona, which has digitalized 25 factories so far, is creating data lakes used by the client for different applications. These data lakes are used for energy and power optimization, production traceability, quality assurance and condition-based and predictive maintenance. Considering that every factor has different workflows, hardware, and software, Nexiona has deployed tailored solutions that extract data from various operational assets. Gartner named the ‘CELSA Group Lighthouse’ project, developed using MIIMETIQ, the ‘Worldwide Best Practice.’ In addition to this, Nexiona has more than 200 customers in many different fields of IoT and Industry 4.0.

These customer success stories are a testament to Nexiona’s reputation and exclusive dedication to IoT and Industry 4.0. Having secured deals with many data privacy-conscious industry leaders and global corporations, the company is raising the benchmark of data sovereignty and innovation in IoT while bridging the divide between the physical and digital worlds.