In our blog, our IoT (Internet of Things) experts provide insights into the latest IoT trends, technologies, various IoT devices and applications as well as practical experience reports and best practices. Find out everything you need to know about IoT and stay up to date.
Smart meter functionality: how intelligent measuring devices work
How much electricity, water and gas do we actually consume? And how can we reduce our energy usage? These are two questions companies must address in times of continuously rising energy prices. So-called smart meters could quickly provide answers in such cases. More about the functionality in this article!
Telematics is now much more than just a technical term. It’s a key technology already helping numerous companies across different industries to stay on top of things and optimize their processes. This article explains how telematics works and where it’s already being used.
Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS): Protection, obligations, and affected companies
Critical infrastructures (abbreviated: KRITIS) are the backbone of our societal and economic life. They ensure that electricity flows reliably, medical care is accessible, payments are processed smoothly, etc. Learn more about KRITIS in this article!
Digital transformation is no longer just a buzzword – it is changing business models, processes, and entire industries.But what does that actually mean for your company? Find out how to successfully shape the digital shift and what opportunities and challenges lie ahead.
Connected Cars: How connected vehicles are redefining mobility
Whether it's live traffic data, software-based driver assistance, or real-time fleet management – connected cars offer new opportunities for businesses, manufacturers, and drivers to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. Learn more about the transformation of the automotive industry in this article!
Centralised was yesterday – how edge computing is revolutionising IT
Autonomous driving, industrial robotic arms or smart cameras – technology is advancing relentlessly. However, for everything to run smoothly, networks and machines must process all data quickly, efficiently and securely. Edge computing is designed to solve exactly this problem.
FIEGE implements AI and IoT to optimize air freight handling
FIEGE Air Cargo Logistics and Deutsche Telekom are revolutionizing air freight handling at Frankfurt Airport using artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.
Condition monitoring: An introduction to modern maintenance technology
Condition monitoring is more than just a technology - it protects machines from unexpected failures, can monitor goods carriers worldwide and is therefore a strategic advantage in an increasingly digitalized and competitive world.
Skilled labor shortage, declining order volumes due to high material costs, and rising energy prices – the construction industry faces numerous challenges. To address these, innovative approaches are needed. A promising solution is the digitalization of the construction site through the use of the Internet of Things (IoT). But what exactly does "digital construction site" mean? Learn more in this blog article!
Asset Tracking: How to keep track of your Resources
Track the location of delivery vehicles and goods in real time at any moment – just a dream? Not at all! With modern asset-tracking technologies, companies can easily enhance their inventory management. Discover the various technologies available and how to effectively implement them in this article!
Digitalization has turned our world upside down and fundamentally changed the way we communicate. One of the most fascinating developments in this area is the so-called M2M communication, often regarded as the backbone of the Internet of Things (IoT). Find out more in this article!
IoT devices are revolutionizing the business world: with real-time data and predictive maintenance, they not only enhance production processes but also offer entirely new business opportunities and innovation potentials. Find out more about the topic in this article!
Predicting unplanned machine failures and identifying maintenance needs in time – predictive maintenance is revolutionizing the industry and is a crucial step toward a proactive and intelligent maintenance strategy.
Intelligent helpers: IoT solutions for skilled workers
They monitor monotonous process steps, take over preventative device maintenance, or increase occupational safety as warning systems: IoT solutions. Are they also the answer to the shortage of skilled labour?
IoT at EURO 2024: The Invisible Playmaker in the Stadium
Numerous and varied technical systems help run a soccer match in a modern stadium. The Internet of Things always passes them the perfectly timed ball. We take you beyond the roar of the crowd with a few examples.
Saga Card: End-to-End Visibility in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
From production to the patient: how a smart IoT device with a built-in nuSIM enables pharmaceutical manufacturers and logistics service providers to gain unprecedented insight into their supply chains and prevent waste.
LPWAN Technologies: What the economical IoT Radio offers
Low power, wide area – the LPWAN wireless technologies specially developed for the Internet of Things score points with their low energy consumption and long range. An overview.
The IoT as the Nervous System of Building Automation
In building automation, the Internet of Things plays the crucial role of the information transmitter with the aim of making buildings more sustainable and more efficient.
Green IoT: Sustainability by the Internet of Things
The environment benefits and consumers are grateful when companies reduce CO2 emissions. Find out how the Internet of Things helps fulfill changing customer wishes and operate ecologically at the same time.
13 Digital Solutions for Efficient Logistics Chains
Empty warehouses, rising costs and supply problems are some of the numerous challenges the logistics industry faces. IoT applications can help solve many of them. Here are 13 examples.
Where IoT Solutions Make Work Easier for Skilled Workers
In jobs where working from home is not an option digital solutions save valuable skilled workers unnecessary work. Four best practice examples from four regions of Germany and two e-books show how to do it.
Safety is always important in daily life, be it at home, in the office or on the move. Smart IoT solutions can confront some of these dangers, as these examples from practice demonstrate.
Without RUD conveyor chains nothing works in many power stations, industrial plants and coal mines. To prevent outages chains can now be monitored via Telekom’s IoT Cloud.
There is no end to the opportunities that the Internet of Things offers. A new tariff family helps cover the different use cases flexibly and optimally.
Responding in Time: IoT Heavy Rainfall Alarm System
How a Spekter and Deutsche Telekom IoT alarm system warns emergency personnel and the general public of heavy rainfall and flooding and helps to protect buildings, the environment and infrastructures.
Precise Positioning Solution Put to Endurance Test
Work where others go on vacation. A very special form of this workation slogan took our experts Alexander and Pascal right across Europe this week. Their plan was to demonstrate live how precisely the position of a vehicle can be determined using our Precise Positioning technology.
Leading cleaning technology provider Kärcher has linked its autonomous scrubber driers to Telekom’s worldwide IoT network, making both remote access and digital fleet management possible.
RanMarine: Precise navigation for autonomous swimming robots
Dutch company RanMarine Technology cleans harbors, canals, and waterways with an autonomous floating aqua-drone. It uses Telekom's Precise Positioning for precise navigation.
Tracking is not always a matter of the value of goods or merchandise. The principal requirement of regular maintenance or unloading is speed. An IoT solution that can be used throughout Europe makes tracking faster.
The Mobile Network of Networks for Global IoT Projects
As a global IoT connector Telekom is expanding its “network of networks” for use with the widest range of mobile IoT applications. Along with 4G and 5G, NB-IoT, LTE-M and Satellite IoT, LoRaWAN is now on board too.
Gutermann: Sensor Technology and IoT Prevent Water Loss
Water is an increasingly valuable resource. Yet some of it is lost due to defective water pipes. How a Gutermann and Telekom solution helps to detect and locate leaks fast.
There can be serious consequences if enterprises fail to run their IoT solutions on certified hardware. Why certification matters and the benefits it brings.
Smart Church Bell Control via the Internet of Things
smartcustos, a startup based in Hofheim near Frankfurt, has developed a smart IoT solution that enables small parishes to ring their church bells remotely.
New White Paper on Digital Ecosystems in Healthcare
The German healthcare system is under pressure. The latest white paper on Smart Connected Ecosystems in Healthcare shows what digital applications and business ecosystems can accomplish in the industry.
Ten Steps that Are Key to Success with an IoT Project
Cut costs, increase sales, boost productivity. These are targets that can be achieved with a well thought-through IoT project. Ten steps are key to a successful start on the Internet of Things.
“Compass for the Multicrisis” Offers Digital Orientation
Companies that consistently pursue digitization are more sustainable, more resilient and more efficient. The new trendbook “Compass for the Multicrisis” provides recommendations for action and practical tips.
The startup LichtWART’s IoT solution ensures that illuminated advertising and outdoor lighting always shine with the right intensity and malfunctions are spotted at an early stage.
Cycling protects the environment and your wallet and helps you keep fit, but it can also be dangerous, especially in traffic with cars and trucks. Spoke and Telekom aim to change that – by means of IoT technology.
Smart Cleaning Cleans Buildings Efficiently and Sustainably
Compromising on cost but not on cleanliness, Soobr’s new smart cleaning solution optimizes facility cleaning. Companies benefit, as do healthcare institutions.
New IoT Business Models: Ten Examples from Practice
How do I retain customers more effectively? How do I develop a new business model? By using the Internet of Things! We highlight ten use cases from different industries.
IoT for Transparent and Sustainable Smart Supply Chains
Many logistics firms are already using digital solutions such as the Internet of Things. But when it comes to things like blockchain or AI, there is still room for improvement. So what exactly are the real advantages of smart supply chains?
High energy costs, customers who are more environmentally aware and new sustainability regulations currently pose challenges for companies. Transparency of consumption data improves energy efficiency.
From connected machines and GPS trackers to autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things has many faces. It is often not clear exactly what the IoT is – and what benefits it offers enterprises and society.
The Internet of Things is growing rapidly. Increasingly sophisticated applications are driving forward consumers, industry and numerous sectors. In 2023 seven IoT trends are especially in focus.
IoT projects often require high initial investment. The IoT Solution Optimizer enables companies to save time and money on planning their IoT solution.
The IoT takes metering to the next level, from mechanical to digital where smart meters make electricity consumption more transparent and energy saving easier.
What is LTE-M? The Most Important Questions and Answers
Mobile, economical and high-coverage, LTE-M provides ideal conditions for many IoT scenarios. We answer the most important questions about the mobile communications standard.
Libelium: Becoming a full-service IoT provider with connectivity
With its IoT solutions, Libelium helps companies and communities become more future-proof and sustainable. In addition, T IoT from Telekom helps Libelium improve its offering worldwide.
IDS Logistik: IoT Ensures Real-time Location of Swap Bodies
IDS Logistik GmbH is the largest and oldest general cargo collaboration in the German market. IDS uses an IoT solution to optimize its logistics processes and improve its customer service.
Kässbohrer: Efficient and Sustainable Snow Grooming
Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG has connected its PistenBully snow groomers via the cellular network to ensure efficiency, transparency, safety, and more sustainable grooming of ski runs.
Dachser: Connected Swap Bodies for Transparent Supply Chains
Supply chains are becoming more complex, skilled operatives scarcer, and customers’ requirements are on the increase – in logistics as in so many other areas. How Dachser meets challenges of this kind by means of the Internet of Things.
Sustainable Management with the Internet of Things
IoT solutions not only help you to manage your business more economically; they can also help companies to achieve their ecological objectives faster. A new study highlights the sustainable effect of the Internet of Things.
Ernst Meister: Connected Lubricant Tanks Provide Optimal Service
Efficient, economical and future-proof, Ernst Meister GmbH has connected its tank drums on the IoT to optimize its supply chain. Thanks to this connectivity the SME has also been able to extend its business model.
From food waste elimination to weather warnings, the IoT can help protect and safeguard basic human needs, especially in areas where climate change is already in full force and effect.
SIWAtec: IoT in Worldwide Use for Clean Drinking Water
SIWAtec water specialists have developed a container solution for the treatment of drinking water on site. The Internet of Things enables the solution to be monitored remotely.
Smart Logistics Thanks to Precise Positioning and IoT
To deliver orders by courier or to ship goods, commodities and materials via the railroad network, IoT technologies make reliable and efficient logistics possible.
Future Mobility: Precise Positioning Takes You There
Navigating accurately to within centimeters, Smartmoov learner drivers and Auve Tech’s autonomous shuttles benefit from the IoT and Precise Positioning.
Green Mobility: Precise Positioning Optimizes E-Scooters
The combustion engine will soon be history as the future of mobility becomes more electrical and greener. In this context e-scooters have much potential that precise positioning can further enhance.
How waste disposal specialists REMONDIS and Rhenus use connected filling level sensors to perfect used glass container and data protection bin pick-up services.
On a construction site, in the production shop and in transportation and logistics SIM cards are a key component of connectivity. That is why, subject to the application area, an IoT SIM must fulfill special M2M requirements.
Efficiency in Fields and Meadows: Autonomous Labor thanks to Precise Positioning
Field work and lawn mowing have more in common than working in the open air. Both are time-consuming, often monotonous and physically demanding, but they can also be automated by means of IoT and precise positioning.
Smart Farming: How 5G Powers Digitization of Agriculture
5G enables autonomous field robots, self-driving tractors and camera drones to help transform agriculture into a theater of smart farming technologies.
Smart City meets Green Tech. Omniflow’s smart IoT lamp pole provides light, WiFi access, measures traffic flows, and many other services, all powered by sun and wind and using Telekom’s 5G technology.
Green IoT: Precise Positioning for the Environment
Precise positioning helps autonomous vehicles to find their way around, for instance. That is obvious. But can the technology be good for nature? A few examples from practice demonstrate that it can.
Be it hardware, data volumes or wireless technologies, companies must clarify many details when designing an IoT business model. The IoT Connectivity Guide provides answers.
Call a Bike, Deutsche Bahn’s bike sharing service, uses LTE-M SIM cards and Telekom’s IoT Solution Optimizer to optimize its offering and product development.
The benefits of sustainability, cost efficiency and process optimization go hand in hand for D+H and its customers thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). A smart, user-friendly box identifies energy losses in elevator shafts and helps reduce energy usage.
Globally available mobile networks are the basis of the Internet of Things. Many connected applications already run successfully on existing cellular standards. So why do we need LTE-M and 5G?
Networked implants that function globally and connected cars with worldwide reception are two examples of what is currently required of mobile network operators.
nuSIM – the integrated SIM for the Internet of Things
The integrated SIM card (embedded SIM, or eSIM for short) is a tiny chip that is soldered directly onto the circuit board of a smartphone or a communication unit in the car, making hardware components unnecessary.
Due to global warming, extreme weather events are on the increase all over the world. An IoT solution developed by the U.S. startup divirod using Telekom’s LTE-M connectivity collects water data and issues early risk warnings.
From time recording and location of tools, equipment and vehicle fleet to securing the excavation pit, many construction site operations can already be digitized.
Smart Factory, Smart City, Smart Everything: IoT-enabled devices are becoming normal. But which standard wireless technology guarantees secure data transmission over long distances using little energy? A comparison of NB-IoT and LoRaWAN.
Fewer costs due to unnecessary empty runs, more sustainability, more efficiency, more quality: setting these as its targets, Telekom developed an IoT solution for intralogistics at the chemicals company BASF Coatings.
Professor Uwe Rotermund, managing partner of consultants rotermund.ingenieure, notes in this interview where connecting buildings with the Internet of Things (IoT) is often still problematic and why developers and facility managers need to rethink.
Reading every wish from your guests’ lips is the stated aim of many a restaurateur. The Internet of Things (IoT) uses smart technologies to support this ambition.
citkar E-Cargo Bike: IoT Trackers Optimize Last Mile
citkar aims to revolutionize last-mile delivery with low-emission, spacious, weatherproof e-cargo bikes. Green IoT technology from Deutsche Telekom and its partner Fleet Complete ensures reliability.
Connected Production Eases Burden on Skilled Workers
As machines and manufacturing processes grow increasingly complicated companies need to rethink the work environment of their skilled production workers. The Internet of Things has a central role to play in this process.
With a shortage of skilled operatives, fragile supply chains, and rising costs, logistics enterprises face major challenges. Digital solutions based on the IoT are the answer.
The new Smarter Production trendbook shows how digitization optimizes value creation by production facilities in three central areas. Three SMBs demonstrate how to make a success of it.
Green IoT: Sustainability by the Internet of Things
The environment benefits and consumers are grateful when companies reduce CO2 emissions. Find out how the Internet of Things helps fulfill changing customer wishes and operate ecologically at the same time.
SELECT AG is one of the leading actors in Germany’s independent aftermarket. Purchasing cooperation based on an IoT solution enables independent garages to be supplied with vehicle data and makes them more competitive.
In the warehouse, machines are increasingly taking on simple and repetitive tasks so that humans can deal with more complex and varied challenges. How IoT devices and robots optimize efficiency and the work environment.
Construction companies could improve the utilization of their construction machinery significantly, putting it to optimal use. But to do so they would require a transparent overview of the location and utilization of their machinery and equipment.
Digital and Customer-centric: the Future of Retail
Constantly changing customer needs, an increasing focus on sustainability and growing competition from e-commerce mean that stationary traders face challenging times. What opportunities does digitization offer?
In-house digitization is seen as a key value driver for industrial enterprises, but all the value-adding processes must first be connected. The Smarter Production trendbook is full of practical hints on how to go about it.
“Delivered in 120 Minutes” is flaschenpost’s USP, and to deliver on this proposition in peak periods the beverage supplier now relies on IoT devices and Telekom’s Azure Cloud.
Before IoT devices can send their readings to the cloud they require complex activation and authentication. An automated process now reduces the time to market of IoT solutions.
By 2030 the EU aims to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 55 percent; Germany’s target is 65 percent. Here’s how enterprises in the logistics industry – and not just there – can improve their sustainability by means of digital technologies.
In the Smart City, in Industry 4.0 or in logistics, the NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) mobile communications standard has swiftly gained the upper hand in many areas of private, public, and economic life and is becoming increasingly relevant. We take a look at some interesting information about the technology.
As smart manufacturing gains momentum, data-driven business models based on the Internet of Things are adding smart services to complement products – and improve the customer experience. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG shows how to go about it.
Technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), 5G, or AI (Artificial Intelligence) enable industrial enterprises to improve employees’ working conditions – in the warehouse, in field service, and in production.
NB-IoT, Sigfox, LoRaWAN: A Trio with Many Capabilities
Various wireless technologies with different capabilities are now available for IoT applications. Which is the best solution for your IoT project? That’s a tricky enterprise decision to make.
Water damage in buildings costs billions every year. Dehumidifiers can limit consequential damage and electricity consumption can be measured precisely thanks to the Internet of Things.
Digital value creation results from the benefits that smart products and services offer. Enterprises should develop them close to their core business. Best example: 3D printing and augmented reality in remote maintenance.
Intelligent metering systems and smart grids will ensure that we can depend on renewable energy to provide our electricity in the near future. These innovation are also sparking new business models.
Digital twins for machines and production equipment are an important part of the Industrial Internet of Things, or Industry 4.0 for short. Digital Twins use IoT data to optimize both production and products.
Flexible supply chains are a decisive competitive advantage. To be better able to react to unforeseen developments, companies need transparency and are digitizing their supply chains.
Stale air due to defective ventilator fans? Never again. Ziehl-Abegg, a family firm, uses the Internet of Things to provide predictive maintenance of its ventilation and air conditioning technology and to reduce machine downtimes and unnecessary maintenance work.
Solar power, wind energy, micro cogeneration power plants: energy from renewable sources has become indispensable, but it makes power generation and distribution far more complex. How the Internet of Things is helping make energy management sustainable.
Can using IoT technology to measure the CO2 level in buildings help prevent coronavirus infections? An innovative solution creates transparency and provides an opportunity to take action.
Connected car, tracking, autonomous driving and predictive maintenance, the Internet of Things is in successful use throughout the automobile industry.
With fewer miles logged, less wear and tear and less fuel consumed, IoT solutions have enabled the parcel delivery service J.R. Company to reduce its vehicle fleet’s running costs by ten percent.
Intelligent power grids: IoT and the energy revolution
Intelligent metering systems and smart grids will ensure that we can depend on renewable energy to provide our electricity in the near future. These innovation are also sparking new business models.
The Smarter Retail trendbook comes with practical tips, best practice examples and experts’ opinions. Consumer psychologist Dr Paul Marsden, for example, explains how retailers exceed their customers’ expectations.
Examples from different industries demonstrate how companies enhance customer satisfaction with the Internet of Things and strengthen customer ties in the process.
If a beermat relays the guest’s preferences to the brewery the Internet of Things is sure to be involved. Companies across all industries are increasingly making use of the opportunities that the Internet of Things offers them.
Boers forestry company: Coordinating the vehicle fleet efficiently
Don't lose sight of the big picture! Foresters Andreas and Leo Boers have to coordinate vehicles, machines, and employees at various worksites every day. Doing this digitally can make it faster and more accurate – with an IoT solution.
Every year, millions of people die from complications caused by air pollution. But a Berlin-based start-up is improving air quality in cities around the world with moss and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Is there a success formula for digital transformation? The Smarter Logistics trendbook recommends to companies the McKinsey three horizons model for long-term sustainable growth.
AVANT facility management: Direct routing, lower costs
50 vehicles, 350 employees and 500 objects: The AVANT Gebäudedienst GmbH team is on the road every day. Recently, an IoT-based solution took over fleet management. The result of the digitalization is clear.
What with shopping online, having food delivered to your door and working mostly from home, Covid-19 has changed daily life significantly. One result is the growing amount of garbage. Can we deal with it smartly? Find out how the Internet of Things helps organize smart garbage disposal.
The autonomous traffic of the future requires a reliably networked infrastructure. And precise positioning from space will help ensure that self-driving cars keep to their lane.
Real-time data from mobile goods is hard to come by. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a solution: with digital, networked asset tracking solutions and new technologies.
Logistics has to operate economically, efficiently and sustainably, and to do so it networks entire supply chains to deliver green logistics by the IoT, which is a major benefit for the environment and a good selling point for customers.
Digital Catering: Professional Cuisine with the IoT
With cookery books from the Cloud, pushbutton cooking and automated HACCP checks, connected kitchen equipment and the Internet of Things (IoT) help chefs to strike a daily balance between quality and efficiency.
Barcode scanners are used in nearly all lines of business. Many firms find buying them and dealing with the finance, choosing a wireless carrier, device management and maintenance very complex. Telekom’s service bundle makes it so much simpler.
German logistics enterprises have a reputation for being global leaders. But tech company outsiders like Flexport or Convoy are intensifying the competition. So how are logistics specialists to hold their own?
Where are my goods or machines and what condition are they in? For many companies this is information worth its weight in gold. With the Low Cost Tracker it is worth it even for one-time shipments.
How the Internet of Things eases the burden of nursing
Draw blood, change sheets, administer IV drip: The daily routine of nurses is demanding. Documenting the work steps takes up additional time. In the future, with IoT, this will happen at the push of a button.
Transparency is crucial when getting a supply chain going again after a production stop. Fortunately, networked trackers and the Internet of Things can help.
IoT is only good for connecting coffee machines or refrigerators to the Internet and it makes devices vulnerable to cyber-attacks – these are just two of several widespread misconceptions about the Internet of Things.
How the Internet of Things (IoT) is making European towns and metropolises into smart cities. Europe’s metropolises are global leaders when it comes to using IoT and smart city technologies to improve sustainability.
Many logistics firms are already using digital solutions such as the Internet of Things. But when it comes to things like blockchain or AI, there is still room for improvement. So what exactly are the real advantages of smart supply chains?
Boosting industrial productivity via remote maintenance
Petko GmbH, a German manufacturer of compressed air systems, uses the Internet of Things to provide remote servicing and predictive maintenance. The digitalization has advantages for both the company and its customers.
Drones delivering packages, autonomous vehicles and networked construction machinery – they all need exact coordinates to move safely. Precise Positioning makes it now possible.
NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) offers completely new possibilities for networking devices and machines in the Internet of Things. However, some misconceptions about the new mobile standard persist.
The Internet of Things offers huge opportunities to logistics companies – provided they know how to make the most of the flood of data. An integrated solution from SAP and Deutsche Telekom can help.
Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change industry in the future. Michael ten Hompel, head of the Fraunhofer Institute, explains why logistics leads the field.
GlasGo colors up to 200,000 pieces of glass each day. But if these are not delivered on time and in perfect condition, the production line comes to a standstill. Discover how Hirsch Glas is tackling this challenge with the Internet of Things (IoT).
Order a taxi by phone or app? It's even easier: Just press the button the "taxiklingel" and the driver is on his way. The IoT solution helps save passengers, service staff and taxi centres a lot of time.
The wireless standard NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) makes smart metering more efficient. And now a large measurement test has shown that the transmission technology for building is more effective than all previous solutions.
