A data ingestion strategy is essential for any business wanting to take a robot from a well-tested device connected to the lab's wi-fi network to the complexity of your customers' environment where data availability can be a wildcard. Formant makes it easy for each organization to customize what data is captured, where it is stored, when and how it is ingested. This level of customization and control is essential to ensuring organizations can manage the volume of data cost-effectively.

Ultimately, not all telemetry generated by a robot needs to be sent immediately. Often robot companies have existing support systems with a list of incidents that need to be investigated. We want operators to be able to start with their knowledge base first and determine if the cost of data acquisition is worth the effort. If extraction is worth it, then it should be as easy as possible to gather this data whenever it is available.

Managing a robotic fleet will involve trade-offs between the financial costs of bandwidth, the scheduling of ingestion, and the volume and variety of data types one continuously monitors. Formant makes it easier to customize, standardize and automate ingestion to meet your business objectives.

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