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| Malanin explains how Microsoft customers are deploying Microsoft solutions for IoT applications. |
"We have IoT discussions with every customer that we work with. Everyone is looking into this," Hartl said. Use cases discussed have included use of robotics in manufacturing, navigating visitors more intelligently through a museum, protecting workers on an oil platform, reducing energy consumption at hotels, as well as improving efficiency at a bank through face recognition technology, he said.
"There are thousands of use case scenarios that make it relevant to everyone," he stated, noting that customers are typically driven by the need to be good corporate citizens as well as contributing to margin models.
Vasily Malanin, IoT and Advanced Analytics Lead, Marketing & Operations, Microsoft Asia Pacific, pointed out that advances in data and analytics have made the IoT more useful before, and represents a new source of revenue streams. "We have the ability to consume, store and process virtually any amount of telemetry or any kind of data," he said.
The Azure IoT Suite from Microsoft packages all the technologies required for IoT results together, with three aims: to provide connectivity to both existing and new devices, facilitate new insights by harnessing the power of untapped data, as well as enable fast solution development, Malanin disclosed. "You do not have to invest in new devices. If you already have a lot of things that produce data, there are ways to connect them to collect data," he explained.
Azure IOT Suite users can deploy IoT securely and scale easily, Malanin added. "You can start from a pilot that has 50 or 500 devices. When you use our system, then you can rest assured that without code modifications you can scale to 50,000 or 5 million devices, automatically."
Rockwell Automation, for example, has built an app with Microsoft's Power BI to provide real time information on the performance of equipment installed at its customers' premises. The company can drill down to individual components, conduct health assessments based on historical data, as well as build predictive maintenance models, to schedule maintenance just in time to avoid problems.
"With analytics, Rockwell Automation can predict in real time what the health of the component is, making customer service much better," Malanin said. "IoT allows you to see how the component is actually used, meter it, and sell that as a service (in addition to) the product itself. For businesses it's a constant stream of cash. It's a service that is locked onto you as a vendor and you establish long term work with the customer."
The Azure IoT Suite from Microsoft packages all the technologies required for IoT results together, with three aims: to provide connectivity to both existing and new devices, facilitate new insights by harnessing the power of untapped data, as well as enable fast solution development, Malanin disclosed. "You do not have to invest in new devices. If you already have a lot of things that produce data, there are ways to connect them to collect data," he explained.
Azure IOT Suite users can deploy IoT securely and scale easily, Malanin added. "You can start from a pilot that has 50 or 500 devices. When you use our system, then you can rest assured that without code modifications you can scale to 50,000 or 5 million devices, automatically."
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| Malanin introduces an IoT use case from Rockwell Automation. |
Rockwell Automation, for example, has built an app with Microsoft's Power BI to provide real time information on the performance of equipment installed at its customers' premises. The company can drill down to individual components, conduct health assessments based on historical data, as well as build predictive maintenance models, to schedule maintenance just in time to avoid problems.
"With analytics, Rockwell Automation can predict in real time what the health of the component is, making customer service much better," Malanin said. "IoT allows you to see how the component is actually used, meter it, and sell that as a service (in addition to) the product itself. For businesses it's a constant stream of cash. It's a service that is locked onto you as a vendor and you establish long term work with the customer."
The investment may be relatively low. According to Malanin, the Power BI dashboard that Rockwell Automation uses may have taken just two hours to build, after which testing occurs, then distribution to any device. "It gives you the power to access a limitless amount of information that you store in the cloud, and you can look at analytics that you never looked at before," he said.
One example of analytics on the fly might be to correlate the incidence of critical alerts against average temperatures, even though temperature information is not compared in this way on the BI dashboard. "If there is a correlation, it would be an immediate flag for the product team to drill into the materials and check into whether there is a situation there. Real environments and real use cases are a very powerful tool for the product team," Malanin said.
Malanin also featured Australian construction company Laing O'Rourke, for whom staff safety is paramount, as an IoT success story. The company has created smart hardhats with a sweatband sensor array and data collection unit which can be retrofitted onto existing hardhats. The technology monitors the temperature and heart-rate of the wearer, plus the external temperature and humidity. It also contains a GPS module and an accelerometer for determination of orientation and the impact of vibration/shock.
With Microsoft Azure IOT Suite, Laing O'Rourke has been able to alert teams when an employee is about to suffer from heatstroke. Mick Badran, CTO of MOQdigital, the Microsoft Partner which worked with Laing O'Rourke, said Azure makes it all possible.
“What Azure IoT Suite brings for us is an incredible set of functionality and capability. So we get to expand our toolbox by tenfold when Azure’s in town – there’s just some amazing different services," he said.
Interested?
Watch the video about Laing O'Rourke's IoT solution
Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts on:
The announcement of Azure IoT Suite
Microsoft joining the Open Connectivity Foundation
One example of analytics on the fly might be to correlate the incidence of critical alerts against average temperatures, even though temperature information is not compared in this way on the BI dashboard. "If there is a correlation, it would be an immediate flag for the product team to drill into the materials and check into whether there is a situation there. Real environments and real use cases are a very powerful tool for the product team," Malanin said.
Malanin also featured Australian construction company Laing O'Rourke, for whom staff safety is paramount, as an IoT success story. The company has created smart hardhats with a sweatband sensor array and data collection unit which can be retrofitted onto existing hardhats. The technology monitors the temperature and heart-rate of the wearer, plus the external temperature and humidity. It also contains a GPS module and an accelerometer for determination of orientation and the impact of vibration/shock.
With Microsoft Azure IOT Suite, Laing O'Rourke has been able to alert teams when an employee is about to suffer from heatstroke. Mick Badran, CTO of MOQdigital, the Microsoft Partner which worked with Laing O'Rourke, said Azure makes it all possible.
“What Azure IoT Suite brings for us is an incredible set of functionality and capability. So we get to expand our toolbox by tenfold when Azure’s in town – there’s just some amazing different services," he said.
Interested?
Watch the video about Laing O'Rourke's IoT solution
Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts on:
The announcement of Azure IoT Suite
Microsoft joining the Open Connectivity Foundation
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