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Digi International upgrades remote manager to support IoT

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September 9, 2020

Digi International, a provider of IoT connectivity products and services, announced the latest release of Digi Remote Manager, its device and network management cloud platform.

Digi Remote Manager expands the ability to simplify device deployment and maintenance, ensure network uptime and security, and provides new levels of network management so that the network team is not required to change their business processes to accommodate rigid network tools.

Digi Remote Manager is a cloud-based platform that allows users to manage IoT devices and networks in any environment from anywhere. With the ability to support applications from industrial IoT to branch connectivity, intelligent traffic management and everything in between, Digi Remote Manager unlocks the potential of IoT deployments across the board. It transforms dispersed IoT devices to a holistic IoT network, deriving operational and business value and delivering the secure, resilient network required by organizations today.

Digi provides differentiators that simplify processes and provide additional value, including:

• Device grouping allows users to create groups of devices and remotely configure them by group identification rather than product type, so the same device types can be programmed in different ways without reverting to manual configurations on individual devices. The ability to configure device groups brings greater control to the network manager, providing much needed flexibility to assign configurations regardless of the device type.
• Custom scripts, such as Python, can be uploaded to geographically dispersed devices to simply add the on-device intelligence users require.
• Remote access to non-IP edge devices, such as sensors, via the routers that they're connected to expands the array of devices users can manage through the Digi Remote Manager platform.
• Sub Account Management, the ability to create sub accounts that can be managed from the parent account. Sub accounts allow the parent account owner to restrict which devices sub account users can access.
• Task automation allows users to create a configuration for a group of devices that is then automatically pushed to all devices in that group, enabling pre-validation of configurations and reducing cost to maintain the deployment.
• Task scheduling offers the ability to preprogram functions to run at a later time, easing the burden on network engineers and managers while still ensuring a high-functioning network.