Kelvin is a software platform designed to enable autonomous operations in industrial settings. It allows applications to continuously learn and take actions to enhance industrial efficiency, increase production, and reduce emissions. By transforming engineering best practices into data-driven, action-oriented Smart Applications (SmartApps), Kelvin empowers engineers to optimize entire systems by making real-time control decisions across various assets.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Smart Application Development: Provides SDKs and APIs for software engineers to convert existing logic or models into SmartApps capable of taking actions and measuring their impact.
- Intuitive User Interface: Offers a user-friendly UI for operations engineers to manage applications, monitor their performance, and act on recommendations to improve workflows.
- Flexible Control Layer: Enables SmartApps to make safe control changes, protected by set point guardrails, either at the edge or in the cloud.
- Open Data Layer: Includes OT connectors that ingest and contextualize data, facilitating the development and operation of multiple applications.
Primary Value and Problem Solved:
Kelvin addresses the challenges faced by industrial operations teams, such as the loss of process know-how due to expert attrition, the difficulty in maintaining and scaling optimization methods locked in proprietary systems, and the inability of current automation systems to optimize for multiple objectives across entire systems. By enabling the creation and deployment of SmartApps, Kelvin allows organizations to extend their existing automation systems, turning best practices into scalable, data-driven solutions that optimize thousands of assets in real-time. This leads to significant operational improvements, including reduced operational expenditures, lower emissions, and decreased equipment failures.
