How an Event Mesh Works in Supply Chains
- Edge events are streamed to a local event broker via IoT gateway.
- Events are streamed to interested applications via an event mesh (a network of globally distributed event brokers).
Advantages of an Event Mesh
Technical Advantages
- Global connectivity: connect a wide variety of products, parts, and processes to a global event mesh via local IoT gateways and event brokers. PubSub+ Event Broker supports a wide variety of open standard protocols and APIs, and handles protocol/API translation.
- Federated and dynamic event routing: an event mesh is intelligent (self-learning) and will send filtered streams of events to specific endpoints dynamically based on topic subscriptions.
- Elastic scalability: the event mesh can be easily scaled to manage millions and even billions of concurrent connections and peak workloads.
- Security and access enforcement: end-to-end security is built-in (authentication, authorization, encryption).
Business Value
- Global track and trace, better decision making: back-end systems, dashboards, data lakes and other applications have access to real-time data streams (location and sensor data) for enhanced logistics, analytics, and situational awareness.
- Improved supply chain efficiency: supply chain resources can be increased, reduced, moved, or delayed in real-time response to any number of changes affecting the chain (manufacturing, weather, busy port, sales).
- Enhanced agility: new applications, processes, plants, or factories can be easily added to the system, without disrupting it.
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