June 17, 2019
The Posiflex Group, which includes Posiflex, Kiosk Information Systems and Portwell, has announced a partnership with Banyan Hills Technologies, an IoT company, to enable corporate entities to provide customers with remote management capabilities through its Canopy platform, according to a press release.
This solution facilitates serviced IoT technology, including centralized monitoring, control and automation of Posiflex device endpoints. The IoT platform offering is called Canopy — Empowered by Posiflex.
"Providing a remote management system with real-time monitoring, alerting and control capabilities across the Posiflex product portfolio is a huge advancement operationally, and an essential element of our technology-enabled platform as a service value proposition," Hans Peter Nüdling, chief strategy officer for Posiflex Group, said in the release. "Adding Banyan and the Canopy platform to our strategic partner and solution ecosystem substantially enriches the Posiflex Group’s value proposition in Serviced IoT."
Posiflex customers can leverage the Canopy platform through Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or a private cloud. Deploying Canopy modernizes operations and drives increased visibility and control of Posiflex hardware assets — including kiosks and related transaction components, POS, embedded PCs, gateways and more. The centralized management capabilities realized through Canopy will help customers increase efficiencies and improve uptimes while maximizing the utility of their data through advanced analytics and automation.