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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The IoT takes metering to the next level, from mechanical to digital where smart meters make electricity consumption more transparent and energy saving easier.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
