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Here are just a few typical use cases for AggreGate. Being such a wide platform, it can be used in numerous other ways as well.

Example 1: Vending Machine Network

You can put AggreGate in the core of a vending-machine operation. All vending machines will be equipped with AggreGate Agents, and connected via GPRS.

In corporate HQ, you will be able to see a large map of the city (via a special widget in the AggreGate Client interface), with your vending machines marked on it. You could easily see which vending machines generate the most revenue, by the color of the spot on the map.

When a vending machine runs out of stock, your service agents will get an automatic email (or SMS) message, and would then be able to immediately restock it, in the most efficient way possible. And if a vending machine breaks, your repair crew will get immediate notification via SMS, including a description of the problem (i.e, error code and a text description of what part is broken).

If you sell goods which expire (such as sandwiches, for example) your machine could automatically alert a system operator that it has stock which is about to expire. The machine could even request operator OK to begin a special sale, and when the OK is given, prices for that specific sandwich type would go down so that it would sell before it expires.

You could generate special reports with the click of a button, such as best-selling machines, best-selling items, items slowest to move, and areas in the city where the most breakage and damage occurs to machines (i.e, where most service calls are). This gives you an unprecedented level of control and efficiency.

Example 2: Sensor Network

AggreGate can be easily used to monitor multiple sensors and operate complex control logic. Let's say you operate a huge organic greenhouse. Your greenhouse always has to be in a certain temperature and humidity percentage. These variables keep changing at various times of the day, and as equipment and workers enter and leave the warehouse.

Your sensor grid, deployed throughout the warehouse, could connect to LinkServer and constantly relay sensor data. When a certain threshold is crossed (i.e, humidity too low) an alert could be raised, and corrective action will automatically occur - water atomizers would kick in, adding humidity.

You could generate reports to easily see how much power and water your greenhouse consumes, and use the data to plan the space layout more efficiently and minimize any waste of resources.