The need to monitor for the arrival of landslides and take the necessary precautionary measures to prevent any casualties.

TRW needed a wireless monitoring system as laying cables and trunking throughout their sprawling and ageing facility would be an unimaginable task.

A leading data-center operator in the EMEA region, with multiple facilities spanning over 25,000 square meters, faced significant security challenges. The operator experienced interruptions in their internal IT network due to unsupervised work of third-party technicians. Despite having a high-end building control system that provided 24x7 monitoring and control to all the building’s infrastructure, the data center was vulnerable from a cyber perspective as it was connected to the IT network infrastructure. The operator launched an urgent OT cyber security project that included both IT-OT network segmentation and OT network asset mapping and anomaly detection. The main objectives were to harden the security of the server systems, secure the facility’s power supply and server cooling system, strengthen the segmentation between building and operational systems, create a visual OT network map, and set up a system for presenting supply-chain attacks that may threaten the data center through equipment vendors’ maintenance activities.

» According to the International Labour Union, “One out of every six people in the world – or 1 billion people – has a disability. Between 785 and 975 million of them are estimated to be of working age, but most do not work.”1» Many countries do not have the necessary mechanisms in place to respond to the needs of people with disabilities.» The World Health Organization cites several studies reporting that people with mental health difficulties or intellectual impairments have the lowest employment rates, including one that found people with intellectual impairments were three to four times less likely to be employed than people without disabilities — and more likely to have more frequent and longer periods of unemployment.

Deutsche Bahn, Europe’s largest railway operator, and rail infrastructure owner has been leading innovation in the railway industry with IoT technology solutions supported by TEKTELIC. TEKTELIC is providing a product line of the Best-in-Class KONA Gateways in DB’s corporate facilities, and the partnership has been a key driver for the implementation of the Basic Station packet forwarder on these gateways to support DB’s preferred interface to the Network Server. DB has been leveraging the IoT network to test many applications including asset tracking and remote asset monitoring.Deutsche Bahn selected TEKTELIC as its IoT gateway provider thanks to its Always-on Connectivity, Carrier Grade design and approach to providing customers with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for their LoRaWAN® networks. The KONA Gateways are managed on TEKTELIC’s customized KONA Element Operations, Administration and Management server, a comprehensive tool allowing operators to configure, monitor and optimize all of the Gateways in their network from a single node.

Human Body Comprises 70% of Water and hence it is important that the water we consume is not only fresh and clean but also free from invisible harmful bacteria and excessive dissolved solutes. This is perhaps one of the reasons, why fresh and clean water ranked as one of the highest rank quality of life factor.With ever-increasing demand, the supply of clean and safe water has become a major challenge globally, more so because of the rapid urbanization, growth of world population, and rapid climatic change. Given these modern-day challenges, it is only imperative and natural that we optimized the utilization of nature’s most precious gift. With the above consideration in mind, our client, one of the global major in Water treatment and management has entrusted us with the design and development of an IoT based water flow monitoring and control system, that utilizes state of the art sensor technology and wireless connectivity for real-time monitoring & control of water treatment and filtration process with minimal wastage. The system addresses the various challenges in the water sector, like real-time flow rate measuring, monitoring of filter elements, optimize the filtration process while reducing wastage. Faststream has successfully designed and delivered the product with the most customer satisfaction.

The traditional way to measure power consumption of a device is to connect multimeters, oscilloscopes, or specialized power analyzers to the hardware that is to be tested. These tools are slow, difficult to set up, and make it difficult to measure the power consumption for more than a few seconds. Also, they typically require a fair amount of experience with electronics and electrical engineering.

Electrode slurry is coated onto copper and aluminium foil to facilitate electric flow. The metal surface, separator, and coating must be inspected for potential surface or edge defects as well as uniform shape and thickness.

More than 84% of world trade is mobilized by maritime transport. The integration of land transport with ports has become essential and has had an impact in the complexity of logistics connections. The dynamic nature and importance of maritime transport have repercussions on the environment in the form of noise and air pollution or traffic congestion, among others. Despite the fact that CO2 emissions of container vessels are, comparatively, much lower than air freight emissions, a very large 18,000 TEU container vessel emits 3 grams of CO2 per tonne/kilometer. Recent studies also suggest that maritime transport contributes to 3.5 – 4% of the pollution with sulfur, a highly carcinogenic agent.

Automate meter reading capabilities and improve customer service

The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, was facing a significant challenge in enhancing the performance and scalability of its IT infrastructure while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). The company's traditional approach of upgrading to faster servers and more efficient storage was no longer sufficient. The Home Depot needed a more innovative solution to reduce TCO and improve operational efficiency for its vast retail store and e-commerce business. The company was also looking for a way to consolidate its server, storage, and virtualization teams into a single operations group to optimize and manage the entire infrastructure stack from a single console. The challenge was to find a solution that would allow them to achieve these goals while also enabling them to quickly deploy new applications to internal users and customers.

For scientists at the City of Lakeland, Florida, manually monitoring lake levels to prevent flooding is a time-consuming, resource-draining task, especially during the nearly four-month rainy season.“Maintaining balanced water levels is critical to avoid flooding in residential areas and conserve enough water for the dry season,” said Laurie Smith, manager of the City of Lakeland’s Lakes and Stormwater Division. “Our technician has to drive back and forth between 11 lakes and make sure the levels don’t get too high.”

As a pioneering IT enabler and technology driver, Intel’s objective was to demonstrate to clients that the modern data center operating environment does not require the level of cooling traditionally thought necessary to guarantee reliable performance. Given the significant energy cost and capital expense associated with cooling technology, there would be considerable potential for dramatically reducing TCO by designing and building data center facilities that run at a higher ambient temperature.Demonstrating the validity of this approach required an accurate and straightforward way to scientifically prove how TCO could be reduced without business risk or compromising IT performance. Intel needed a dependable solution that would rapidly allow a detailed assessment of the entire data center environment under varying workloads and conditions, holistically and at an individual component level.

Smasoft Technology Co., Ltd., a System Integrator that develops industrial automation software and offers AI application solutions, was commissioned by a semiconductor equipment manufacturer to implement AI inspection features into their Extreme Ultraviolet Light (EUV) pod inspection machines. The existing AOI software in the EUV pod inspection machines could only identify defective products but could not trace the cause of the defects. The manufacturer wanted to upgrade their machines with AI features to make the products more useful. The AI solution needed to complete the analysis of 380 images for a single pod within two minutes and inspect different materials simultaneously. This required multiple sets of AI models for interpretation. The solution also needed to be installed in a cabinet in the lower half of the machines, which posed a challenge due to the limited space. Smasoft needed to purchase a hardware solution with strong computing performance, stable operation, compact size, and flexible configuration to overcome these challenges.

Sodexo, the leader in facilities management, is helping manage the operations of the North American headquarters of one of the world’s largest CPG companies. Both the client and Sodexo were looking to transform their respective workplace and modernize workflows. Sodexo was accustomed to practicing route-based maintenance but the lack of insights in the machines they managed hindered them from better understanding the true health of those machines. It wasn’t just about cost saving, it was about leveraging technology to transform how they worked. Sodexo needed a partner that could digitally transform their program, provide continuous insights into the health of their machines, all while bringing them into the new world of Industrial IoT. How could the team optimize asset performance? How could they increase productivity while extending the life of equipment? How could they leverage decades of hands-on experience with technology to accomplish more? 

Agriculture is a difficult business and connected devices are becoming increasingly important on the farm, especially during peak times when equipment must work around the clock and achieving maximum productivity is crucial.

EOC1 aimed to expand their services and offerings while remaining competitive. However, EOC1 was a service company with little expertise with products, device communications or platform technologies.

Denver Green School wanted an optimized rainwater harvesting system to eliminate wet-weather discharge and retain water for irrigation.

Manufacturers must cultivate the cheese like artisans but do so in enormous batches—thus the need for production know-how. Mass producing cheese requires machinery and elaborate processing plants that are difficult to manage. To better understand their operations, dairy companies are increasingly turning to data analytics.Chemists and engineers at the dairy plant were running into bottlenecks, especially in terms of:-The blend of protein and fat in the raw materials-The temperature of the batches coming out of the upstream cookers-The pH of output from the upstream fermentation process

To address the challenges of proactively monitoring the very large Cisco Unified Communications global network and to achieve reliability and service quality goals, Cisco IT turned to the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite. The Cisco® internal Unified Communications network is a very large global deployment, having more than 85,000 IP phones spread over six continents.Being in new and uncharted territory in the initial stages, the Cisco IT team first had the challenge of defining methodologies and metrics for measuring and monitoring the key components of service quality: Availability (Can I pick up the phone and get dial tone? Does my call connect? Can I leave and retrieve voicemail?)Performance (How is the voice quality? Did I get disconnected mid-call? How does the voicemail sound? How fast is the voicemail prompt?)The team also had the additional challenge of figuring out approaches, techniques, and tests to:Detect configuration issuesReduce recovery time in the event of a service failure 

High cost of hosting dedicated servers regardless of usage of the systems and resources Time required to have application provision for each new instance for end user clientsTime and resources required to manage servers, back up, and IT infrastructure in data center End user clients requiring storage of data in their own countries End user clients asking for on-demand scalability of resources on servers End user clients asking for secured certified data center with required compliances as per their IT security policy 

Waterford Township has been faced with losing a significant number of DPW staff, some with more than three decades of water and wastewater knowledge, to retirement. The company began to search for a solution that would like real-time operational data from its SCADA systems to its CMMS and DMS to create standard operating procedures and work orders automatically when conditions were met in defined workflow procedures. One key aspect of the project was to get operating procedures standardized and in a format where staff in the field, who might not be familiar with the system, could follow the necessary steps to correct the issue.

To develop a reliable and integrated asset management platform:The objective of the platform was to support condition-based monitoring in order to keep in check the asset’s health, predict failure or breakdowns and ensure proactive maintenance decision-making on the basis of the historic data.

The installation of WIN-911’s alarm notification software at the Tobyhanna Army Depot was done as part of an overall energy efficiency project. In the early 2000s, the base worked to decentralize their coal-fired steam heating plant. This project included the construction of 10 boiler rooms housing 21 new boilers, as well as 37 air rotation units installed in various buildings. The entire infrastructure had to be integrated into HMI/SCADA systems and the existing control systems had to be upgraded. Ameresco, a leading independent energy efficiency company, was selected to head the project. Ameresco, in turn, specified WIN-911’s alarm notification system as the software platform used to instantly alert staff of any problems.

The Porto Turistico di Roma wanted to address two main pain points:1) manual meters reading activity too long and too expensive2) time for billings to customer customers' too long 

Detect issues with consumption, pressure, etc.Monitorand control gas delivery devices to manage billing history and dataReceive real-time alerts

The world’s premier shipping companies work with the software solutions of ABB Marine & Ports to get their vessels safely and efficiently to their destinations. A loyal customer of Wibu-Systems for over a decade, ABB has been relying on CodeMeter dongles to store the license keys for their ABB AbilityTM Marine Advisory System - OCTOPUS.The current version of the system is using Wibu-Systems’ robust metal-case CmStick ME, a perfect choice for the rugged conditions at sea. As satellite communications has made fast Internet connections at sea a common reality for maritime operators, the company is looking to move from physical to software solutions to streamline its logistics processes.

As one of the biggest megatrends of the 21st century, urbanization affects both recent and established industrial countries. In the European Union, already more than 70 percent of the population live in an urban area. In Germany, the uninterrupted urban growth is likely to pose huge challenges for many municipalities in the future, in areas like traffic, energy, environment and health. For this reason, innovative solutions in terms of city planning and city development are required. Additionally, increasingly demanding citizens expect a high quality of life and improved citizen services. To address those challenges, traditional routes must be tested, old infrastructures modernized and administrative processes organized more efficiently.

Networked applications, such as electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR), are vital for Cook Children’s to provide outstanding service to its patients and physicians. As its network grew in complexity, with data coming in from various wireless medical devices and wearables, as well as remote hosted applications, issues surfaced. The organization’s network manager identified a range of issues that included slow user experience, network monitoring challenges, and an inability to proactively identify application performance concerns.