Teddy Kuo, President of QNAP, stated: "Our vision for QIoT is for industries, academia, and manufacturers to explore the value of IoT big data and help them increase efficiency and quality in professional and personal environments, enabling people to enjoy secure and cost-effective IoT with minimal financial investment."
Since 2017, QNAP has partnered with Webduino to implement a QIoT solution for the Taoyuan District Agricultural Research and Extension Station in Taiwan. Analytical suggestions for crop scheduling and remote monitoring are simplified, providing advanced methods for agricultural operations and management. While QIoT Suite Lite collects and stores on-site data (e.g., humidity, temperature, pH levels) from smart sensors, farmers can remotely receive real-time information using computers and mobile devices, enabling them to react to changes instantly and saving the time and labor required to verify conditions on-site. QIoT empowers agricultural IoT applications to help farmers solve problems and improve management, with relatively affordable implementation and lower skill requirements.
QIoT Suite Lite features a flexible architecture and integrates multiple third-party services. For example, it supports (but is not limited to) development boards and starter kits, including Arduino Yun, Raspberry Pi®, and Intel® Edison, to facilitate deployment. It shares data via API, transmitting data collected from the device and stored on the QNAP NAS to other dashboards such as Microsoft® Power BI for enhanced data analysis and management flexibility. Specific QNAP NAS models support AWS Greengrass to leverage Amazon® cloud computing. By combining the benefits of both private and public clouds, QIoT Suite Lite enables greater application flexibility, helping system integrators address a wide range of IoT use cases with exceptional affordability.
QIoT Suite Lite can also address more advanced IoT use cases, such as Fog Computing, where multiple QNAP NAS devices function as Fog or Edge nodes in a hierarchical manner that handles the scalability and distributed control required for Fog Computing.
QIoT solutions were showcased in an excellent presentation at IoT Tech Expo Global 2017 and CeBIT 2017. QNAP also actively promotes real-world IoT practices by sponsoring the QNAP Hackathon Challenges for Smart Cities at Secutech Taipei 2017 and a series of hands-on QIoT workshops, aiming to inspire people to realize the limitless possibilities of IoT with a QNAP NAS.
QIoT Suite Lite v1.0 is now available in the QTS App Center.
