Hitachi Innovation Challenge demo. Moshe Shadmon on managing edge data where it is generated, replacing cloud round-trips with a virtual data layer queried over standard SQL.
At the Hitachi Energy Innovation Challenge in early 2025, AnyLog founder Moshe Shadmon pitched the company's edge data platform to Hitachi judges and the Innovation Lab team, with mentor Christine Cunningham introducing the relationship at the end of the talk.
The frame Shadmon opened with is that most enterprise data is now generated at the edge: solar panels, smart cities, substations, connected cars, and many more. The standard answer has been to ship that data to the cloud, host it in databases there, and serve applications from the centralized copy. That move costs real-time properties, costs data sovereignty, and costs money in proportion to data volume.
AnyLog inverts the flow. The same edge nodes that capture the data also host AnyLog, which exposes them as a single virtual data layer over standard SQL. Application queries that once went to the cloud are now routed directly to the edge; only queries and result sets traverse the network. Data can still move to the cloud, but it does not have to.
Shadmon closed with the customer ledger. At Sabetha, Kansas, AnyLog was deployed in days and the city asked to terminate its cloud contracts two weeks later. A POC with NOV Energy puts the same platform on onshore and offshore oil rigs for battery management. An electric tourist-boat fleet in the French and Swiss lakes runs on it. Smart buildings on it. Federated learning across all of the above on it. Christine Cunningham added that Hitachi Energy sees the architecture as directly relevant to the European Data Act and that an NDA is already in discussion.