An automotive components manufacturer was facing lower productivity from a relatively new automated assembly line - production 43% lower than installed capacity; new plant, 3 years old. Plant runs 24 hours, 6.5 days a week.Management is budgeting a 2nd assembly line driven by demand, but wants current productivity issues resolved.

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the importance of continuously monitoring indoor air quality, especially in schools. The Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec has announced in September 2021 the deployment and installation of air quality and comfort parameters sensors in more than 47,000 classrooms across the province.They need:Reduce maintenance and installation difficultiesMonitor CO2, humidity and temperature level at 5 minutes intervals during school hoursCreate an information system without the use of Wi-Fi or Cellular Internet

When we first met the team at Maverik Motion Picture Productions, it consisted of 5 full time members of staf. As with many businesses, they were working from a central ofce and sharing one handset between them. As the company grew, this started to become problematic and due to the nature of the business, each member of the team was spending a lot of time on site with clients. This created a real need for each team member to be able to work remotely, using their mobile phones. The businesses central ofce was being rented, which meant the idea of a permanent solution would not be suitable, as they may need to expand or move in the near future.

Proper storage plays a vital role in safeguarding the integrity of pharmaceutical products. Many drugs, medicine, and other pharmaceuticals are susceptible to temperature and humidity levels, and as such, have stringent storage requirements.Improper storage can result in medications losing their efficacy or becoming harmful to patients. To avoid deterioration in pharmaceutical product quality, clinic operators must consistently and accurately measure, monitor, and track real-time conditions in pharmaceutical storage cabinets. Controlling these conditions presents a significant challenge for medical facilities, as manually checking temperature and humidity is inefficient and labor-intensive, also carrying the risk of human error in measurement accuracy and reporting. IoT technologies are enabling medical practitioners to automate temperature monitoring of pharmaceutical storage cabinets. As one of the most renowned private medical clinics in Switzerland, the Merian Iselin Clinic sought a reliable and effective method of remotely monitoring and maintaining ideal temperature and humidity conditions within its pharmaceutical storage cabinets.

Future Vehicle Technology Manager at the Victorian Department of Transport (formerly VicRoads), explains that “human error is a significant contributor to road crashes”, meaning momentary lapses of concentration or judgment are far more likely to cause accidents than overtly dangerous driving.

JSW, a multi-billion dollar company, is a key player in India’s steel, energy, cement, and infrastructure industries. The company's steel manufacturing is spread across multiple plants, each housing dozens of machines with numerous sensors tracking multiple data points and supplying event data every 2-3 seconds. This data includes field maintenance, material consumption, and machine usage. Although the data is saved in each machine’s database and transferred to the central Oracle databases, the process had significant issues. Each machine used its own data protocols, making the data transfer processes 'closed' and lacking a standard way of reporting errors. As a result, some errors went unnoticed for a long time, leading to financial losses. For instance, the production of metal with incorrect dimensions could go unnoticed, resulting in significant waste and financial loss.

Daimler AG was looking for a way to maximize the number of flawlessly produced cylinder-heads at its Stuttgart factory by making targeted process adjustments. The company also wanted to increase productivity and shorten the ramp-up phase of its complex manufacturing process.

A client of an agency aimed to construct an Employee Happiness solution for its South-East Asian campuses. The challenge was to design, build, and implement an automated solution that could effectively measure employee happiness and job satisfaction. The client wanted to utilize IoT for gathering employee feedback and work with cross-functional teams to build and monitor an effective employee welfare solution. The task was not only to collect feedback but also to analyze it and generate meaningful campaigns based on the varying needs of the employees.

The city of Atlanta, with a resident population of over 420,000 and a metropolitan area of more than five million people, faced the challenge of ensuring the safety and security of its citizens and visitors. As a leading tourist destination and a multicultural city attracting global investment, Atlanta had to deal with the complexities of managing safety and security incidents. Over the years, the city had invested in various surveillance systems, providing visual intelligence to law enforcement and security professionals. However, these systems operated independently and were spread across a wide geography. The city aimed to increase collaboration among government agencies and create a shared Video Integration Center (VIC). The challenge was the disparate nature of the video systems, which were based on proprietary technologies and were both analog and IP based. The city also wanted to leverage the numerous private cameras located across the city, further complicating the integration of all these systems into one common platform.

Motor City Wash Works, a leading global manufacturer of automated car washes, aimed to revolutionize the car wash industry with its end-to-end, as-a-service car wash technology system. However, the company faced significant challenges related to network connectivity. The system relied heavily on secure 24x7 network access for everything from machinery data to PCI compliant point-of-sale information. Any network downtime was costly and manual, making in-person troubleshooting unrealistic and inefficient. The company also faced issues with opening day delays for new installations, which resulted in significant revenue loss. Additionally, the company had to manage data from multiple sources, which was difficult to track through one platform. Lastly, the company needed to ensure the security of critical data, including customer payment information, while meeting PCI DSS standards.

Dell Technologies, a global tech giant with over 160,000 employees, was grappling with high-volume and repetitive transactional HR processes. The company was seeking to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness while freeing up HR employees for higher-value, strategic work. The challenge was to eliminate transactional work for end-to-end processes such as open requisition recruiter assignments, onboarding process reminders and status updates, and offer status management. This would allow HR employees to focus more on person-to-person interactions.

Reliability of Cellular Connectivity - How could Robustel help Intercake ensure printers located in supermarkets across the UK with varying RF environments all worked flawlessly?Qualifying Data Usage - How could Intercake use the data counting and analytical tools available inside all Robustel devices to manage airtime costs and prevent 'bill-shock'?Capital Expenditure for Connectivity - How could Robustel work with Intercake to make sure they had a solution that was fit for purpose but not 'over-engineered' to ensure maximum return on a nationwide roll-out?

温湿度监控解决方案血液站属于医疗卫生机构，负责收集和储存血液并将血液提供给临床或血液制品生产单位。因此，血液站中心的血液非常宝贵。温度和湿度环境对于确保血液在血液站中的安全非常重要。

This settled organization was quick to secure its market position and future development openings in an evolving world. As a provider of keen entryway related “things” – their association with clients was more value-based than shared. Its marked passage items gambled commoditization, and the absence of profound associations with clients made holes and open doors for contenders to wear down a piece of the pie. Client input circles were difficult to build up, hampering extension openings inside existing records.The absence of direct client association likewise introduced huge difficulties when items were utilized inaccurately. Sorting out what occurred afterward was tedious and disagreeable.Despite the fact that upkeep and buying rules were set to advance quality, the procedure was manual and defective. Discovery units had expected life expectancies, however without clear and current information, it was difficult to check their actual compelling execution period. Substitution calendars could be excessively proactive or lack. 

ThingSpace Manage is a self-service portal to manage the IoT device's connectivity on the Verizon Wireless Network. Using ThingSpace Manage IoT device usage can be tracked, active service, set up automatic alerts, troubleshoot device connectivity, and more.

Ethicon, a world-class medical devices company, faced several challenges in its operations. The rapid selection of manufacturing materials compliant in global markets was critical to assure patients, practitioners, and purchasing organizations of the biocompatibility of their medical devices. Ensuring supply chain continuity and minimizing risks of obsolescence for medical devices due to regulatory changes were also crucial in meeting Ethicon’s ongoing commitment to maintaining patient care. Furthermore, the engineers at Ethicon were developing the next generation of medical devices and needed to access historical material data to accelerate new product development. The process of centralizing and digitalizing its materials information was a significant challenge that Ethicon needed to overcome.

The V2X systems use a sophisticated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based approach to facilitate trusted communication:V2X systems use Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC). Device must be able to securely and efficiently generate ECC keysThe random numbers generator must have high entropyRoot-certificates must be protected by usage of secured storageDevice must have tamper resistance, including physical attacksPrivate keys must have protection against side channel attacksPrivate keys must to be protected and used securely › V2X device are required to generate up to 40 messages per second. The signing latency must be low to support this frequency

From the pursuit of car ownership to the pursuit of higher quality and safe cars, tires are an important part of car safety.

TELUS, a leading telecommunications company, was faced with the challenge of interactively exploring complex network datasets without experiencing lag. The company needed a comprehensive mapping of TELUS communities and competitor speed information to better understand the market dynamics. Identifying competitor coverage and deciding where to build wireless services was another significant challenge. Each of TELUS’s high-speed services has its own coverage layers, qualification criteria, and competitive restrictions. TELUS Marketing needed to know where they could deploy each service, the targeting potential, and where competitors offer similar services. They required an advanced analytics solution that quickly shows their customer base, potential upsell opportunities, and where wireline and wireless high-speed internet adoption are low.

Summit Materials, a leading integrated construction materials solution provider, was facing challenges in achieving their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals due to decentralized solutions for telematics, safety, and site visibility. This decentralization led to gaps in their data and reporting, making it difficult to track progress against their goals. Their operations spanned across 22 U.S. states and British Columbia, Canada, further complicating the tracking process. Summit needed a technology partner that could consolidate their over the road fleet safety, emissions, and fuel consumption data into a single platform for better visibility and data reliability.

Larsen & Toubro Infotec (LTI), a global IT services company, was facing two primary challenges at their Bengaluru facility. Firstly, the lack of automation for their HVAC & Lighting system was leading to uneven temperature distribution, resulting in numerous employee complaints. The facility management team was spending a significant amount of their time addressing these issues. Secondly, the company was dealing with high energy wastage and consequently, high energy bills. During a site survey, 75F, an IoT solutions provider, identified an opportunity to save substantial amounts of energy through predictive, proactive automation of LTI’s HVAC & Lighting systems, which would also enhance operational efficiency and remote visibility.

Today, interoperability is a challenge. Communicating between programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from different vendors and with other peripheral devices on the same system presents difficulties. Industrial IoT companies rely on remote devices to control, monitor and maintain the health of their systems. The RTU, or remote terminal unit, transmits telemetry data to the PLC via the DCS or SCADA system and uses messages from them to control connected objects. For example, oil and gas companies need to know the status of pressure and volume on their pipeline. They may need to open or close valves depending on the conditions, which operators would do by communicating with the RTUs.When updates to the hardware were required, these companies were faced with limited options. They could either buy more devices from the same vendor, which was restrictive. Or, they could purchase from another manufacturer and then invest more time and money to have their SCADA integrator reprogrammed.

Terrassa City was in need to ameliorate their information and communication flow between municipal managers, in order to generate new services to its citizens. The City Council was missing an internal management platform of the municipal services, and wanted to initiate a Smart City strategy to solve this issue, along with bringing value to all parties involved (municipality, businesses, citizens and other local entities). 

In the aspect of streamlined production and product quality inspection, it is sometimes necessary for human staff to observe, identify, and discover errors and omissions in the production process. No matter how strong a person's sense of responsibility is or how concentrated he/she is, he/she may be fatigued, neglected, distracted, not to mention, he may turn a blind eye to the mistakes of acquaintances, causing defective products to flow to the market. At the same time, if the all-manual inspection method is adopted on the assembly line, it is not only heavy work but also quite time-consuming. In a modern production line, such an inspection method cannot be accepted, and more importantly, it does not add any value to the production itself.

Strategic Growth, a top Salesforce Gold Consulting Partner in the US, was facing challenges with its case study production process. The process was slow, unreliable, and often failed to comply with the Salesforce template. After completing a Salesforce implementation for a client, a Strategic Growth consultant would manually fill out the case study slide template provided by Salesforce. This process was often delayed by weeks or months, and sometimes all relevant data was not captured. If consultants pasted data into a local template instead of downloading the latest one, additional time was required to recreate the case study in the correct format. The company was meeting Salesforce’s case study quota, but wanted to improve efficiency by eliminating these manual steps.

The Dublin Port Tunnel, a €752m project and the largest civil engineering project in Ireland, required a comprehensive and fully integrated security management solution. The tunnel, which spans 5.6 km and acts as a link between Dublin Port and the national motorway network, needed a single security management system located at the main on-site control room to centrally monitor and control the entire tunnel. The goal was to create a safe facility and environment for tunnel users. The scale of the project necessitated a high-end security solution that incorporated CCTV, intruder alarms, intercoms, and central monitoring via a single Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.

Salonit Anhovo, the largest cement production factory in Slovenia, aimed to join the top 10% most energy-efficient cement factories in Europe. Despite already using around 60% alternative fuels and maintaining a CO2 emission factor below the benchmark factor, the factory faced significant challenges due to the energy-intensive nature of clinker production. The factory's electricity consumption averaged 85 GWh, with 2500 Tera Joules of energy used for clinker burning, leading to energy bills of up to 9 million EUR per year, primarily for electricity. Salonit needed to comply with European energy regulation and sought to leverage a co-financing mechanism to invest in equipment and monitoring solutions that would help meet the energy consumption reduction target.

Citibanamex, a part of Citibank corporation, was facing a challenge in keeping up with the rapidly evolving Mexican consumer banking market. The bank's primary goal was to deliver a seamless, personalized user experience across both digital and traditional channels. The bank's mobile application rating was a mere 2.0 out of 5, indicating a need for innovative digital offerings to improve the user experience. The bank's core technology stack was a proprietary mainframe system, which ran core business applications such as payments and account management. Over time, modernization projects led to an increasing spiral of complexity with various tools, mainframe gateways, ESBs, middleware, dispatchers, routers, and messaging queues. Each system had a different way of handling the backend legacy platform, making it harder and more cumbersome to integrate with legacy applications. After years of unsuccessful, costly integration attempts, Citibanamex was left with the same needs and challenges, only exacerbated. The focus shifted to the Customer Digital Experience and the End-User Journey, and they needed a partner that could help them rapidly develop and deploy innovative customer offerings on top of their core systems.

Takebishi, the Kyoto-based total solutions provider, distributor and evangelist for Mitsubishi Electric Corp. factory automation technology, is readying its flagship industrial communication middleware DeviceXPlorer® OPC Server for the smart factories and connected industry of the 2020s with a major new version upgrade. With its business growing both in its native Japan and around the world and unauthorized use an increasing concern, the invaluable intellectual assets invested in the system call for a licensing solution that is as smart and sophisticated as it is reliable and easy to use.

Simplify their supply chain workflowIncrease communication with suppliersMore time to fix data discrepanciesAdvance notice when delays were expected