Description
Enterprises today have multiple assets that are widely dispersed across large areas. Monitoring and managing the use of such assets effectively ’is simplified with the custom-built devices and technologies that we deploy daily.’
Enterprise Challenge:
- Assets get lost or stolen,
- Assets get used in the wrong areas by the wrong people
- No visibility of how the asset is used leading to potential abuse
- No visibility of when the asset is used leading to a loss of efficiency
Solution
- Regular or (upon request) real time views of the location of the asset
- Alerts when an asset is removed from an area (geofencing)
- Reports on asset use
Description
Gaps in good distribution practices can trigger dire consequences for food and healthcare manufacturers: increased regulatory scrutiny and steep financial penalties, slumping sales, shareholder apprehension, damaged brand and reputation, and compromised consumer safety.
A convergence of new market forces, including much stricter regulatory compliance requirements and enforcement, are significantly raising the stakes and oudivating traditional cold chain logistics.
Manufacturers need next generation tempe This monitoring solution provides Manufacturersrature-controlled supply chains built on four key essentials: a reliable network, globally consistent processes, risk-appropriate packaging and a total cost strategy.
This monitoring solution provides Manufacturers with:
- A view of the goods’ temperature throughout the cold chain; from factory/warehouse -> transport -> retail
- Real time alerts when temperature range is exceeded
- Real time alerts if a fridge is opened or left open for a period of time
Solution
The solution was built using hardware from three vendors; Monnit, Baobab and DME integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware platform 1 – Monnit:
This platform was used for monitoring of fridges in a fixed environment such as large fridges in retail. Monnit Gateway with wireless sensors for:
- Temperature
- Door open/close
Hardware platform 2 – Baobab:
This platform was used for monitoring of fridges in a fixed or mobile environment such as small fridges in retail. Fridge asset tracking device with:
- GPS
- Temperature probes
- Power consumption measurement (for fridge compressor)
- Door open/close detection
Hardware platform 3 – DME:
This platform was used for monitoring of refrigerated trucks or mobile cold storage boxes. Mobile tracking device with built-in:
- GPS
- Temperature sensor
- Humidity sensor
- Light detection
- 3-axis accelerometer
Description
In certain industries, employees such as miners and factory workers can be exposed to harmful environments (which include high/low temperature, hazardous gasses, humidity, low/high air pressure)
These dangers are not always easily detected by the workers. They can spend time in these harmful environments and the effects will only be clear to them once they are catastrophic (lung cancer, silicosis and other diseases).
At the same time employers have an obligation to report on the safety of the environment as well as to report on exhaust and effluence into the surrounding environment from these work places.
The environmental monitoring solution enables the enterprise to measure and monitor their own selection of environmental indicators. This allows for accurate reporting for compliance and health and safety for their workers.
This monitoring solution provides the enterprise with:- Daily report on measured environmental
- Real time alerts in case of an exception
Solution
The solution was built using the hardware below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware:
Libelium Waspmote Plug & Sense: Smart Environment PRO 4G with battery backup and the below sensors:
- Temperature, humidity and pressure.
- CO for high concentrations
- CO for low concentrations
- O2
- O3
- SO2
- NH3 for low concentrations
- NH3 for high concentrations
- CH4
- H2
- H2S
- HCl
- HCN
- PH3
- ETO
- Cl2
- Luminosity
- Ultrasound
- NO
- Particle Matter
- NO2
- CO2
Description
Production Managers need to ensure that the machines on their production lines are working at all times. Any downtime is typically very expensive. Although the machines are often highly sophisticated, all the machine data (like operating status, alarms etc.) are restricted to the machine itself and not available remotely. Thus engineers need to walk the production floor regularly to check the machine operation.
By having machine status information and alerts provided remotely, managers can respond faster to problems and even prevent downtime.
This monitoring solution provides the Production Manager with a centralized view of all important machine parameters, indicating:
- Run time
- Quantity of operations executed
- Alarms or malfunctions
Solution
The solution was built using the ML3G+ hardware from Vodafone, into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
The ML3G+ device receives data from external equipment via:
- 3 Multipurpose I/Os
- Ethernet port (supports Modbus)
- Serial port (supports RS232 and RS484)
Description
Facilities Managers need to ensure that the lifts and escalators in the buildings they manage have maximum up-time. An outage of a lift/escalator during working hours leads to unhappy staff and customers and places pressure on the Facility Manager to repair it quickly.
Facilities managers often have a wide range of lift/escalator models installed across a wide geography with no central view of the asset status or run time. Thus, they rely on planned maintenance and support SLAs with vendors to minimize potential downtime.
Facilities managers benefit from a solution that provides real-time information about the status and runtime of all their lift/escalator assets on a centralized dashboard. This real-time status assists in reducing asset downtime. This means that support contracts and service levels can be managed more effectively, resulting in operational efficiencies and their associated cost savings.
This monitoring solution aims to provide the FM with:
Solution
The solution was built using various hardware integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware: Lift monitoring – Libelium Waspmote with GSM modem and battery backup
Escalator Monitoring – Raspberry Pi 3 with GSM, battery backup and inductive proximity sensor
The integration between the hardware platforms and Thingworx can be done using existing documentation and code available from the Thingworx Community.
Description
Power utilities are increasingly experiencing costly problems with theft of transformers mounted on poles or in mini substations. Thieves often burn down the pole or surrounding structures causing the power to trip/disconnect. This enables them to remove the copper but leaves significant infrastructure damage which is both time-consuming and expensive to repair.
There is a myriad of transformers in a power network and these are typically spread across a wide area, making it difficult to monitor them.
This monitoring solution provides the power utility with:
- Early warning alerts in the case of detection of a malicious event
- Daily reporting to indicate the status of the transformer environment
Solution
The solution was built on the Vodafone RMCS framework providing:
- An overview dashboard showing high-level statistics of all assets and alarms should be provided.
- Navigation to an asset or sites via a graphical map interface and/or expandable hierarchical tree structure.
- The solution was built using the hardware options below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework:
Hardware option 1:
Libelium Waspmote Plug & Sense: Smart Environment PRO 4G with battery backup and the following sensors:
- Temperature, humidity and pressure
- CO
- CO2
Hardware option 2:
BaobabMini-sub transformer monitor and CV transformer monitor 7600-0340 with battery backup and the following sensors:
- Ambient Temperature
- Transformer Temperature
- 3 Phase CV Line & Power Consumption
- Tamper detection
Description
Understanding consumer patterns of behaviour at different times and on different days is key to marketing planning. Managers can launch special promotions or adapt the price of product at specific times; increasing sales, optimising stock and delivering on customer needs.
The Libelium Meshlium AP scanner was used to detect the presence of smartphones with Bluetooth or WiFi enabled to monitor the presence of consumers.
This monitoring solution provides the retailer with real data about the number of visitors at different times and their behaviour. The solution is less about real-time monitoring and notifications. The accumulative value lies in the data collection, reporting and analytics to provide insights about customer behaviour that can increase revenue.
Solution
The solution was built using the hardware below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework:
Hardware:
Libelium Meshlium 4G AP Scanner with directional antennas. The solution provided analytics on the following:
- Amount of unique customers per day
- Amount of unique customers per hour
- Amount of repeat customers per day/week/month
- Common customer movement paths or heatmaps
- Comparing no. of visitors to number and value of sales (Conversion rate)
- Conversion rates at different times and days
- Understanding the demographics of visitors by linking smartphones to consumers
- omparing the demographics of visitors to the types of products sold at each time/day
Description
IT managers must ensure that servers critical for supporting business operations are working at all times. Their focus is usually more on the server hardware and software components. However, the environment in which the servers operate can have a significant impact on their performance.
Without monitoring the server room environment, IT managers are reliant on manual checks and any missed problems can result in an expensive outage.
This monitoring solution provides the IT manager with:
A centralized view of all server room environmental parameters, indicating
- Presence of water in the room
- Correct operation of the air conditioning
- Opening/closing of server room door
- Presence of power to servers
Solution
A Monnit 3G gateway was used in parallel with various sensors integrated with the Vodafone RMCS / Thingworx platform.
Description
Farmers want to monitor ambient conditions, soil moisture and plant conditions to improve crop yields.
Without a monitoring system farmers must rely on manual inspections that can be subjective and potentially unreliable.
The Libelium Smart Agriculture IoT Vertical kit has set of sensors and probes dedicated to smart agriculture applications.
This monitoring solution provides the farmer with:
- Daily reports on measured environmental status
- Real time alerts in case of an exception
Solution
The solution was built using the hardware below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware
Libelium Smart Agriculture IoT Vertical kit. With the following sensors:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Atmospheric pressure
- Soil moisture
- Solar radiation
- Soil and water temperatures
- Leaf wetness
- Anemometer, wind vane and pluviometer
Description
Municipalities and Private Utility Companies need to measure customers water consumption in order to accurately bill for it. Traditional manual meter reading is slow and error prone. By using a smart water meter, utilities can remotely obtain reliable consumption data and generate an accurate bill.
In the past, smart metering for water has not been possible due to the power requirements for communication. However, now with NB-IoT, a battery life in excess of 5 years is possible.
Solution
This monitoring solution provides the utility with:
- Detailed consumption data
- Billing file based on consumption and applied tariff
The hardware used was Kamstrup MULTICAL meters.
Description
Enterprises today have multiple assets that are widely dispersed across large areas. Monitoring and managing the use of such assets effectively ’is simplified with the custom-built devices and technologies that we deploy daily.’
Enterprise Challenge:
- Assets get lost or stolen,
- Assets get used in the wrong areas by the wrong people
- No visibility of how the asset is used leading to potential abuse
- No visibility of when the asset is used leading to a loss of efficiency
Solution
- Regular or (upon request) real time views of the location of the asset
- Alerts when an asset is removed from an area (geofencing)
- Reports on asset use
Description
Gaps in good distribution practices can trigger dire consequences for food and healthcare manufacturers: increased regulatory scrutiny and steep financial penalties, slumping sales, shareholder apprehension, damaged brand and reputation, and compromised consumer safety.
A convergence of new market forces, including much stricter regulatory compliance requirements and enforcement, are significantly raising the stakes and oudivating traditional cold chain logistics.
Manufacturers need next generation tempe This monitoring solution provides Manufacturersrature-controlled supply chains built on four key essentials: a reliable network, globally consistent processes, risk-appropriate packaging and a total cost strategy.
This monitoring solution provides Manufacturers with:
- A view of the goods’ temperature throughout the cold chain; from factory/warehouse -> transport -> retail
- Real time alerts when temperature range is exceeded
- Real time alerts if a fridge is opened or left open for a period of time
Solution
The solution was built using hardware from three vendors; Monnit, Baobab and DME integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware platform 1 – Monnit:
This platform was used for monitoring of fridges in a fixed environment such as large fridges in retail. Monnit Gateway with wireless sensors for:
- Temperature
- Door open/close
Hardware platform 2 – Baobab:
This platform was used for monitoring of fridges in a fixed or mobile environment such as small fridges in retail. Fridge asset tracking device with:
- GPS
- Temperature probes
- Power consumption measurement (for fridge compressor)
- Door open/close detection
Hardware platform 3 – DME:
This platform was used for monitoring of refrigerated trucks or mobile cold storage boxes. Mobile tracking device with built-in:
- GPS
- Temperature sensor
- Humidity sensor
- Light detection
- 3-axis accelerometer
Description
In certain industries, employees such as miners and factory workers can be exposed to harmful environments (which include high/low temperature, hazardous gasses, humidity, low/high air pressure)
These dangers are not always easily detected by the workers. They can spend time in these harmful environments and the effects will only be clear to them once they are catastrophic (lung cancer, silicosis and other diseases).
At the same time employers have an obligation to report on the safety of the environment as well as to report on exhaust and effluence into the surrounding environment from these work places.
The environmental monitoring solution enables the enterprise to measure and monitor their own selection of environmental indicators. This allows for accurate reporting for compliance and health and safety for their workers.
This monitoring solution provides the enterprise with:- Daily report on measured environmental
- Real time alerts in case of an exception
Solution
The solution was built using the hardware below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware:
Libelium Waspmote Plug & Sense: Smart Environment PRO 4G with battery backup and the below sensors:
- Temperature, humidity and pressure.
- CO for high concentrations
- CO for low concentrations
- O2
- O3
- SO2
- NH3 for low concentrations
- NH3 for high concentrations
- CH4
- H2
- H2S
- HCl
- HCN
- PH3
- ETO
- Cl2
- Luminosity
- Ultrasound
- NO
- Particle Matter
- NO2
- CO2
Description
Production Managers need to ensure that the machines on their production lines are working at all times. Any downtime is typically very expensive. Although the machines are often highly sophisticated, all the machine data (like operating status, alarms etc.) are restricted to the machine itself and not available remotely. Thus engineers need to walk the production floor regularly to check the machine operation.
By having machine status information and alerts provided remotely, managers can respond faster to problems and even prevent downtime.
This monitoring solution provides the Production Manager with a centralized view of all important machine parameters, indicating:
- Run time
- Quantity of operations executed
- Alarms or malfunctions
Solution
The solution was built using the ML3G+ hardware from Vodafone, into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
The ML3G+ device receives data from external equipment via:
- 3 Multipurpose I/Os
- Ethernet port (supports Modbus)
- Serial port (supports RS232 and RS484)
Description
Facilities Managers must ensure that the lifts and escalators in the buildings they manage have maximum up-time. An outage of a lift/escalator during working hours leads to unhappy staff and customers which places pressure on the Facility Manager to repair it quickly.
Facilities managers often have an assortment of lift/escalator models installed across a wide geography with no central view of the asset status or run time. Thus, they rely on planned maintenance and support SLAs with vendors to minimize potential downtime.
Facilities managers benefit from a solution that provides real-time information about the status and runtime of all their lift/escalator assets on a centralized dashboard. This real-time status assists in reducing asset downtime. This means that support contracts and service levels can be managed more effectively, resulting in operational efficiencies and their associated cost savings.
This monitoring solution aims to provide the FM with:
Solution
The solution was built using various hardware integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware: Lift monitoring – Libelium Waspmote with GSM modem and battery backup
Escalator Monitoring – Raspberry Pi 3 with GSM, battery backup and inductive proximity sensor
The integration between the hardware platforms and Thingworx can be done using existing documentation and code available from the Thingworx Community.
Description
Power utilities are increasingly experiencing costly problems with theft of transformers mounted on poles or in mini substations. Thieves often burn down the pole or surrounding structures causing the power to trip/disconnect. This enables them to remove the copper but leaves significant infrastructure damage which is both time-consuming and expensive to repair.
There is a myriad of transformers in a power network and these are typically spread across a wide area, making it difficult to monitor them.
This monitoring solution provides the power utility with:
- Early warning alerts in the case of detection of a malicious event
- Daily reporting to indicate the status of the transformer environment
Solution
The solution was built on the Vodafone RMCS framework providing:
- An overview dashboard showing high-level statistics of all assets and alarms should be provided.
- Navigation to an asset or sites via a graphical map interface and/or expandable hierarchical tree structure.
- The solution was built using the hardware options below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework:
Hardware option 1:
Libelium Waspmote Plug & Sense: Smart Environment PRO 4G with battery backup and the following sensors:
- Temperature, humidity and pressure
- CO
- CO2
-
Hardware option 2:
BaobabMini-sub transformer monitor and CV transformer monitor 7600-0340 with battery backup and the following sensors:
- Ambient Temperature
- Transformer Temperature
- 3 Phase CV Line & Power Consumption
- Tamper detection
Description
Understanding consumer patterns of behaviour at different times and on different days is key to marketing planning. Managers can launch special promotions or adapt the price of product at specific times; increasing sales, optimising stock and delivering on customer needs.
The Libelium Meshlium AP scanner was used to detect the presence of smartphones with Bluetooth or WiFi enabled to monitor the presence of consumers.
This monitoring solution provides the retailer with real data about the number of visitors at different times and their behaviour. The solution is less about real-time monitoring and notifications. The accumulative value lies in the data collection, reporting and analytics to provide insights about customer behaviour that can increase revenue.
Solution
The solution was built using the hardware below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework:
Hardware:
Libelium Meshlium 4G AP Scanner with directional antennas. The solution provided analytics on the following:
- Amount of unique customers per day
- Amount of unique customers per hour
- Amount of repeat customers per day/week/month
- Common customer movement paths or heatmaps
- Comparing no. of visitors to number and value of sales (Conversion rate)
- Conversion rates at different times and days
- Understanding the demographics of visitors by linking smartphones to consumers
- omparing the demographics of visitors to the types of products sold at each time/day
Description
IT managers must ensure that servers critical for supporting business operations are working at all times. Their focus is usually more on the server hardware and software components. However, the environment in which the servers operate can have a significant impact on their performance.
Without monitoring the server room environment, IT managers are reliant on manual checks and any missed problems can result in an expensive outage.
This monitoring solution provides the IT manager with:
A centralized view of all server room environmental parameters, indicating
- Presence of water in the room
- Correct operation of the air conditioning
- Opening/closing of server room door
- Presence of power to servers
Solution
A Monnit 3G gateway was used in parallel with various sensors integrated with the Vodafone RMCS / Thingworx platform.
Description
Farmers want to monitor ambient conditions, soil moisture and plant conditions to improve crop yields.
Without a monitoring system farmers must rely on manual inspections that can be subjective and potentially unreliable.
The Libelium Smart Agriculture IoT Vertical kit has set of sensors and probes dedicated to smart agriculture applications.
This monitoring solution provides the farmer with:
- Daily reports on measured environmental status
- Real time alerts in case of an exception
Solution
The solution was built using the hardware below integrated into the Thingworx platform, using the Vodafone RMCS framework.
Hardware
Libelium Smart Agriculture IoT Vertical kit. With the following sensors:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Atmospheric pressure
- Soil moisture
- Solar radiation
- Soil and water temperatures
- Leaf wetness
- Anemometer, wind vane and pluviometer
Description
Municipalities and Private Utility Companies need to measure customers water consumption in order to accurately bill for it. Traditional manual meter reading is slow and error prone. By using a smart water meter, utilities can remotely obtain reliable consumption data and generate an accurate bill.
In the past, smart metering for water has not been possible due to the power requirements for communication. However, now with NB-IoT, a battery life in excess of 5 years is possible.
Solution
This monitoring solution provides the utility with:
- Detailed consumption data
- Billing file based on consumption and applied tariff
The hardware used was Kamstrup MULTICAL meters.
