03 April 2025
Nokia has launched MX Context, a groundbreaking solution that harnesses sensor fusion technology to offer AI-powered contextual awareness for industrial enterprises.
This new tool is integrated into the Nokia Edge Compute and AI platform for industrial sites, enabling it to process vast quantities of data from various sources. MX Context provides real-time actionable insights and intelligent automation, aiming to enhance operational excellence and improve decision-making processes. Its unique offering in the market lies in its ability to deliver both situational and contextual awareness.
Leveraging sensor fusion technology, MX Context combines multimodal data from diverse sources to generate real-time, AI-powered insights tailored for Industry 4.0 use cases. The solution utilizes Nokia’s on-premise edge industrial computing capabilities, specifically the MXIE and MX Grid solutions, for data processing, alongside the MXIE Data Lake for storing both structured and unstructured data for historical analysis and application data access via APIs.
MX Context features low-code visual development capabilities, allowing users to quickly create logical workflows and design dashboards with minimal coding expertise. It integrates seamlessly with Nokia MX Workmate, an advanced AI assistant that enables natural language interactions with connected workers. The MX Context solution is modular, allowing for the creation of use case-based contextual awareness solutions. The initial two MX Context suites focus on tracking and positioning as well as worker safety.
In terms of tracking and positioning, MX Context is noted as the first industry solution capable of ingesting and fusing data from multiple tracking technologies, including Bluetooth Angle-of-Arrival, video-based positioning, GPS from worker devices, and other third-party tracking technologies such as HERE HD GNSS and Nordic ID. This integration results in more precise and reliable positioning, ensuring continuity in tracking across mixed industrial environments to optimize asset utilization, inventory management, processes, and material flow.
For worker safety, MX Context processes and fuses diverse data types from Nokia’s sensory solutions, including Nokia VPOD, device sensors (gyroscopes, accelerometers, microphones), and third-party applications. This real-time AI-based data fusion facilitates the first instances of situational awareness and contextual information, enabling the detection of potential accidents or incidents and facilitating effective responses, such as triggering alerts, notifying emergency services, or providing real-time guidance to workers.
