Benefits
Improve visibility and reliability
Learn about Cisco FAN solutions and the benefits of Cisco Resilient Mesh for industrial IoT.
Use cases
Utility advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)
Zero-touch provisioning is crucial for deploying and managing millions of smart meters. IoT Field Network Director simplifies device lifecycle and certificate management for thousands of industrial routers and millions of endpoints for utility AMI deployments.
Utility distribution automation
IoT Field Network Director provides lifecycle management for tens of thousands of industrial routers in distribution automation deployments. A simplified headend architecture is made available to streamline secure provisioning of routers.
Features
Lifecycle management
- Automated enrollment and provisioning of gateways and endpoints
- Over-the-air lifecycle management
- Dynamic, customizable dashboard
- Device inventory
Network optimization
- Configuration management
- Network management for constrained bandwidth
- Network troubleshooting
- RBAC user management
- Rich APIs for third-party-operation application integration
Real-time monitoring
- Active monitoring and alerts for critical events
- Real-time location tracking of assets and geofencing
- Rich GIS map overlays