Use cases

A LoRaWAN test town for Hungary Szada is a small town on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, with a population of around 5,000. Its economy has relied on agriculture for …

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part …

CSL, an “internet of things” and machine-to-machine solutions company with a footprint in the fire and security industry, selected Vodafone to bolster the connectivity of its more than 2,800 alarm …

U.S. supermarket sees value in energy efficiency OutSmart used its monitoring and data analytics programs to help an unnamed regional supermarket chain with more than 800 stores located across the U.S. …

Smart vending machine for today and tomorrow Vending machines are a $7 billion industry in the United States, and there is reportedly one vending machine for every 55 people, according …

Landscape irrigation, a wasteful endeavor For decades, landscape irrigation in homes and commercial properties has been controlled by timers or manual valves without the ability to regulate how much water is …

Keeping things cool with IoT monitoring Every time the door to a milk cooler or freezer does not close properly, an alarm goes off on a computer screen in a …

A cereal company with a data issue The Kellogg Company operates in 180 countries, providing ready-to-eat cereals and other food products with brands including Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, Special K, …

Heineken launched a global marketing campaign, partnering with the Bond franchise and using Microsoft Azure for “technically demanding” promotions, including one for the UEFA Champions League that required low latency …

Silicon Labs recently released its new Thunderboard React, a cloud-connected, Bluetooth-enabled, sensor-driven IoT developer kit that lets customers demo, evaluate and develop their own projects. To show off the capabilities of the …

Landscape companies often struggle to reconcile customers’ billable hours with employee labor hours – especially when using manual time cards to record the data. To improve billing accuracy, S&S Landscaping …

Oil and gas refinery leakage costs hundreds of thousands One of the largest oil and gas refineries in the world, working with various types of crude oil and manufacturing various grades of …

Keeping vaccines cold Dulas, a renewable energy provider, sought a machine-to-machine (M2M) solution that would allow it to record and report the temperature inside vaccine refrigerators to prevent the vaccines from losing …

Volvo to launch new sensor-based monitoring system Volvo Buses unveiled the first pedestrian and cyclist detection system for the bus industry. Launching at the IAA in Hannover, Germany, the system will be …

A problem with corn production, and a precision agriculture solution Italy is one of the top maize grain producers in the European Union alongside France, Germany, Hungary and Spain, producing 7,069,000 tons of …

The internet of beans Thumb-sized “plastic beans,” are being filled with sensors and tossed into grain bins and storage facilities for precision agriculture, getting rid of the need for handheld devices …

Environments too harsh for wires OneProd, producers of predictive maintenance monitoring equipment aimed at preventing unexpected breakdowns in industrial production tools, looked to deploy a wireless data acquisition system that …

Controlling the liquid streets of the Netherlands In the Netherlands, waterways, small inland harbors and canals are used by citizens in their daily routines. Each city has a water infrastructure with …

Bosch provides business rules management to ThyssenKrupp factory ThyssenKrupp, a German conglomerate corporation, found that it’s leading steel division needed to replace the models it used to manage the production …

Health care provider partners with ThingWorx for machine learning An unnamed regionally-managed health care provider partnered with ThingWorx’s machine learning platform to detect patterns in data that would lead to …

A smart factory for spoons DeSter, a company out of Belgium that designs and manufactures food packaging including plastic cups, mugs, plates and cutlery, created a smart factory to cut cycle times, …

Agriculture is evolving Smart farming and precision agriculture have become important parts of modern agricultural practices. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), by 2050, …

A factory in Billund, Denmark, uses autonomous robots and precision machines to make 36,000 Lego pieces per minute, or 2.16 million pieces every hour. In fact, according to Gizmodo, the factory’s …

The devil is in the details Today’s aerospace factory floors are very different from the noisy production environments of the past. The latest techniques, designs and equipment make modern manufacturing …

Edinburgh Airport, the busiest airport in Scotland, partnered with BlipTrack to use sensors and give its travelers visibility of real-time wait duration throughout the airport, including the dreaded security line. …