Qualcomm Inc is a world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. They implemented OSIsoft’s PI System to receive real-time Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data on mission critical facilities and IT Systems across five countries. Their high-availability design currently utilizes six different communication protocols to update 35,000 PI Points, 7,500 Asset Framework (AF) Elements, and 244,000+ AF Attributes. In addition to obtaining real-time KPI information and viewing operational data in dashboards, this system has simplified their alerting and operational management, enabled better historical trending and future capacity planning, and improved decision-making by providing reliable data and analysis. The PI System deployment is now supporting other Qualcomm business initiatives ranging from the Internet of Things to SmartCampus.
Speaker
Keith Ward
Keith Ward is a Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm who specializes in designing data centers, maximizing space utilization of the data center floor, and establishing standards for the use of data centers. He was a member of the team that designed and built Oracle's Utah Compute Facility, Austin Data Center, Rocky Mountain Data Center and Denver 3-1211. He is also the author of a unique method and patent for accounting for the assets within an IT organization and 3-dimensional viewing of the data center space. He formerly managed and developed a new team that performs all hardware installations and movements within a data center.