FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PTC (Nasdaq: PTC) today announced ThingWorx, a PTC technology, is joining the MK:Smart project, a £16M HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) smart-city initiative, led by the Open University, which aims to tackle barriers to economic growth in the city of Milton Keynes, UK. ThingWorx will provide a rapid application development environment as an additional feature to the MK data hub. Partners of this project include BT, Milton Keynes Council and UCMK (University Campus Milton Keynes), supported by ThingWorx Partner InVMA.
The MK Data Hub enables a data-centric approach to open innovation and provides a platform that can be used to deliver apps and services to address the challenges of an expanding city. This provides opportunities for local companies to take data-driven innovations to market.
ThingWorx provides a purpose-built IoT application development environment that is free to SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) in MK:Smart for the development of their market-ready applications. Pre-connected to data available in the Data Hub and open to new data sources, the ThingWorx® platform will accelerate the development process of combining data sets and building rich, interactive applications.
Training and advice for SMEs is provided by the team at UCMK, supported by BT and ThingWorx Partner InVMA. In addition to this technical support, MK:Smart offers a range of business engagement activities for innovative SMEs who are seeking to engage with the MK Data Hub to build new data-driven applications and services.
“ThingWorx is a great addition to the MK Data Hub,” said Professor Enrico Motta, Open University, Project Director, MK:Smart. “It will enhance our platform by facilitating rapid prototyping and delivery of IoT applications, a key aspect of smart city solutions. I am looking forward to seeing the results from this exciting collaboration.”
“ThingWorx is honored to join MK:Smart, one of the world’s preeminent smart city initiatives,” said Russ Fadel, president, ThingWorx. “Integrating ThingWorx with the MK Data Hub will not only enable universities, high tech businesses and incubators to quickly and securely deliver IoT applications that unlock the value in the city’s open data sets, but also to accelerate economic growth in Milton Keynes by promoting the creation of new local business ventures. MK:Smart is truly demonstrating the way forward for cities around the world.”
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PTC
(NASDAQ: PTC) is a global provider of technology platforms and solutions
that transform how companies create, operate, and service the “things”
in the Internet of Things (IoT). The company’s next-generation
ThingWorx® technology platform gives developers the tools they need to
capture, analyze, and capitalize on the vast amounts of data being
generated by smart, connected products and systems. The company’s
field-proven solutions are deployed in 26,000 businesses worldwide to
generate a product or service advantage. PTC’s award-winning CEO,
considered an industry thought leader, co-authored the definitive guides
to the impact of the IoT on business in the Harvard
Business Review.
MK:Smart
mksmart.org
Contact: Professor
Enrico Motta, Project Director
Enrico.motta@open.ac.uk
MK:Smart,
a £16M Hefce funded smart-city initiative, led by the Open University,
which aims to tackle barriers to economic growth in the city of Milton
Keynes, one of the fastest growing cities in the UK, through the
deployment of innovative data-intensive solutions. At the centre of the
project is the MK
Data Hub, hosted in University Campus Milton Keynes (UCMK), the
University of Bedfordshire’s local campus, which collects data about
energy and water consumption, transport, weather and pollution sourced
from satellite technology, sensor networks, social and economic
datasets, social media and specialised apps, with the aim of tackling
key demand issues.
The Open University
open.ac.uk
Contact: Jane
Whild
jane.whild@open.ac.uk
The
Open University’s mission is to be open to people, places, methods and
ideas.
We promote educational opportunity and social justice by
providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise
their ambitions and fulfil their potential.
Through academic
research, pedagogic innovation and collaborative partnership we seek to
be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open
learning.
UCMK
Contact:
Paul Sant
Paul.Sant@beds.ac.uk
University
Campus Milton Keynes (UCMK) is part of the University of Bedfordshire.
The University has a history of world-leading research, including work
with the technology domain. UCMK works as part of the MK Data Hub work
undertaken as part of MK:SMART and has contributed to the development of
this city-wide infrastructure.
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