Cloud Computing in Action

If you make the technology right, people will pick it up and embrace it sooner than you can imagine. In his video tutorial Tom Hoenig of GTI uses the InSite system to demonstrate remote condition monitoring at a plant in Rochester, NY area. What Tom does not mention is that he is monitoring that machine from his office in Manchester, NH and the application server that stores the data, does all the calculations, and delivers the user interface to his browser is running in a data center in Chicago and is maintained by InCheck. And yet, the application feels seamless as if everything is running on Tom's iBook.

There is more in this then just the convenience of access to the data from anywhere. For starters, there is no software to install as the monitoring application runs directly in a standard web browser. There is no system maintenance for the plant operators as they only have to install the sensors and wireless data acquisition modules. And the most important aspect of all is that this system reduces costs because the users do not have to own and operate the server's complex software and hardware. Instead, they get it all as a service.