Universal Parks Taps Comcast’s MachineQ to Infuse IoT Intelligence into Park Operations in Universal Orlando Resort
June 06 2019 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Low Power Wide Area Network is Enabling
Projects Designed to Increase Efficiency
Comcast today announced a collaboration between its enterprise
Internet of Things (IoT) service, MachineQ™, and Universal Parks
and Resorts, to use low power wide area networking (LPWAN)
technology for IoT projects at its Orlando location. Using
MachineQ’s integrated hardware and software platform, which is
being fully deployed at the Orlando resort, Universal’s operations
and IT teams are able to quickly test and launch IoT projects
designed to increase operational efficiency in the park.
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Comcast's enterprise Internet of Things
(IoT) service, MachineQ, and Universal Parks and Resorts, are using
low power wide area networking technology for IoT projects in
Orlando. (Image: Business Wire)
“We’ve identified multiple applications where MachineQ’s
low-power IoT platform can deliver data to us faster than previous
methods, and we’re seeing the positive impact that can have for our
teams,” said Bill McCorey, Senior Vice President, Chief Information
Officer, Universal Parks and Resorts. “We’ve conducted a number of
pilots for different use cases, and have plans to put several of
them into production in Orlando. As our teams continue to take
advantage of the MachineQ platform, we anticipate more adoption
from our internal teams, and even greater efficiencies as a
result.”
The MachineQ platform provides IoT hardware and software tools
that will be accessible across the entire Universal Orlando Resort.
With the network in place, wireless sensors that can detect
temperature, location, energy consumption, and more, and can be
affixed to park assets that operations teams want to monitor or
control, such as food refrigeration units, fleet vehicles, and
utility meters.
Once activity is recorded by a sensor, it relays that data
wirelessly to a MachineQ gateway, which in turn can be delivered
over the internet to a digital dashboard used by park operations
and IT staff. With this information at park operations teams’
fingertips, new efficiencies can be realized in the management of
the park. Examples of these efficiencies could include optimizing
maintenance schedules, identifying anomalies in the consumption of
utilities, or understanding usage patterns of fleet vehicles.
“While we offer a growing number of pre-defined IoT solutions,
we are excited to see businesses, such as Universal Parks and
Resorts, leverage our platform and APIs to rapidly build and
customize solutions unique to them,” said Alex Khorram, General
Manager of MachineQ. “Universal’s adoption of IoT to enhance the
guest experience and drive operational efficiencies is similar to
what we’ve seen in other industries where digital transformation is
happening – such as agriculture, multi-dwelling housing,
manufacturing or food service. Once the platform is deployed, and
organizations learn more about the technology and the ability to
add new connected use cases with relative ease, the positive impact
on the business becomes very real.”
The engineering team at Universal is leveraging MachineQ’s
public APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to build an
application that connects storage lockers at the Volcano Bay water
theme park. In addition, Universal is piloting a solution to use
IoT sensors to improve management of its food and beverage
inventory at the Orlando resort using more data. Future use cases
for leveraging the platform could include smart outdoor lighting,
tracking mobile assets like golf carts, and water leak
detection.
MachineQ’s B2B IoT platform is deployed using LoRa® network
technology. LoRa-based networks are similar to cellular or
Bluetooth, but are better-suited for IoT use cases because they
require less power and have the ability to send data over wider
geographic areas and into hard to reach locations like deep indoors
or underground. These characteristics are a primary reason why
Universal will be able to cover its entire complex with 15 MachineQ
wireless gateways, and why solution providers across the globe are
building equipment and solutions that leverage the LoRaWAN®
protocol. For more information, visit www.machineq.com.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a global media and
technology company with three primary businesses:
Comcast Cable, NBCUniversal, and Sky. Comcast Cable
is one of the United States’ largest high-speed internet, video,
and phone providers to residential customers under the Xfinity
brand, and also provides these services to businesses. It also
provides wireless and security and automation services to
residential customers under the Xfinity brand. NBCUniversal is
global and operates news, entertainment and sports cable networks,
the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production
operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures, and
Universal Parks and Resorts. Sky is one of Europe's leading media
and entertainment companies, connecting customers to a broad range
of video content through its pay television services. It also
provides communications services, including residential
high-speed internet, phone, and wireless services. Sky
operates the Sky News broadcast network and sports and
entertainment networks, produces original content, and has
exclusive content rights.
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