Task: Based on the analysis of historical diagnostic and related sensor data of CERTUSS steam generators, a predictive maintenance model was to be developed to avoid errors during operation.

Solution: An integrated and modular end-to-end solution for mobile and stationary assets and data transfer from the M2M Device Cloud (Cumulocity platform) to the Big Data environment (including interface reconciliation).

Customer benefit: The result was cost reduction through predictive and status-oriented maintenance and improved reliability thanks to the early replacement of damaged components. The easy-to-use services of the predictive maintenance platform can be used without lengthy training sessions.

Task: Maintaining a heterogeneous landscape of compressors from different manufacturers and minimizing failures and response times through automatic detection of malfunctions.

Solution: The connection of the compressors to the IoT platform "Cloud of Things" enables alarms in the event of a malfunction and access to the current parameters of the systems via a simple web interface. Maintenance intervals are optimized based on the actual usage data and mobile compressors are located using GPS.

Customer benefit: By minimizing downtimes, customer satisfaction was increased. Adjusting the maintenance intervals to the actual usage lowers the costs. The alarm in the event of a fault and online access to the compressor also increase availability.

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Task: The challenge here was to generate machine monitoring in real time, with the possibility of intervening via remote maintenance.

Solution: A smart factory solution with evaluation of sensor data to trigger predefined actions based on threshold values. The multi-IoT service platform serves as a basis for Big Data analysis and pattern recognition.

Customer benefit: Condition monitoring of machines and components creates greater transparency. More productivity is achieved through the flexible and reliable performance of machines and factories. As a result of the high level of automation, manual activities can be reduced. This results in lower costs.

Task: Often the search for the cause of an error could only begin on site. The technicians often had to leave and return with the right tool and spare part.

Solution: With Smart Control, the doors report status and errors to the Cloud of Things. In the IoT solution’s web portal, Hörmann’s technicians can see 150 parameters such as a counter for opening and closing, operating hours and error codes. In the event of malfunctions, employees are directly alerted.

Customer benefit: Every networked door is maintained predictively, which avoids disruptions and saves costs. Many things can be repaired in advance together with the customer. Fewer emergency calls and double journeys relieve the service and ensure faster repairs.

Task: Introduction of predictive maintenance to eliminate potential problems before a malfunction occurs.

Solution: KAESER customers have an industrial PC with software for SAP's IoT with which sensor data is collected and then transferred to T-Systems' machine-to-machine platform. KAESER has an SAP HANA® platform equipped with SAP Predictive Maintenance for the early detection of malfunctions and for scheduling maintenance.

Customer benefit: With this Industry 4.0 solution, enhanced with predictive maintenance and mobilization, KAESER achieves the highest possible operational reliability for its globally distributed compressors.

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Task: Parts maintenance and the repair of systems in the beverage industry are carried out in a separate process. There is often uncertainty about the exact completion date. Delayed collection costs time and slows down customer service.

Solution: 28 collection points equipped with the IoT Service Button. As soon as the system part is ready for the customer, a message is sent to Telekom's IoT platform at the push of a button.

Customer benefit: The collection of defective or finished system parts starts at the push of a button. This simplifies the process, reduces costs and provides more transparency. The system is also easy to implement and intuitive to operate.

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Task: The challenge here was to realize digitalization options for building safe, smart factories, increase the efficiency of production processes and achieve a higher level of automation.

Solution: Dual Slice 4G/5G campus network with Quality of Service for private mobile connections and improved coverage with the public mobile network. Use of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) to transport heavy components. Edge Cloud combination for optimal data processing.

Customer benefit: Increased speed and flexibility for production processes and the realization of highly flexible (mobile), secure (private) and powerful network infrastructures as a basis for further process innovations.

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Task: A breakdown of the air conditioning in cooling devices can cause serious damage. As a result, expensive journeys by technicians to carry out repairs are to be reduced and customer service improved.

Solution: Readout of measured data (e.g. temperature in the control cabinet, fan speed), integration of the cooling unit into the machine and process sequences via a MODBUS interface and automatic notification of a service technician in the event of faults.

Customer benefit: Condition monitoring offers many advantages: access to machine data at any time, fast reaction to malfunctions, reduction of downtimes, increase in the service life of the devices, no intervention in IT systems required, to name just a few.

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Task: Networking of robust and durable sensors/devices for construction site use, as well as the central visualization of the collected data.

Solution: A particularly robust IoT device transmits the load cell data online via Telekom’s LTE mobile network to Bauer AG’s cloud. From this, the IoT device obtains threshold and limit values and can thus trigger alarms in real time if necessary.

Customer benefit: The visualization of current and historical data provides the engineer with a new tool for immediately recognizing changes and deriving measures earlier than before. In addition, the solution promises greater efficiency through the digital recording of data and its central provision.

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Task: The production and transport of food is subject to HACCP regulations. Compliance with these requirements must be documented by monitoring the temperature curve and hygiene measures.

Solution: The Check Cloud system enables a digital documentation along the food processing and transport chain in order to provide digital proof of compliance with hygienic regulations. The data is securely transferred to the Telekom cloud, where it is processed, analyzed and made available.

Customer benefit: No more paper chaos – previous, paper-based processes are mapped completely digitally. In addition, QR codes on the containers make it easy to set up and identify the critical control points along the transport chain.

Task: The development of a tracking module that functions globally and weather-independently, taking into account adherence to schedules, as well as ensuring punctuality and transparency.

Solution: DAL now knows exactly where and in what condition its containers are on any given day. In addition to tracking, the solution records parameters such as door opening, shock, inclination, temperature and battery voltage and sends them to the Cloud of Things.

Customer benefit: DAL manages its containers efficiently and saves time and money. With the Cloud of Things, it can provide its customers with security across the entire supply chain. For example cases of damage would be documented for the insurance company.

Task: The Definitiv Thermobox is intended to ensure the safe transport of medicines requiring refrigeration. Although the cold chain from the manufacturer to the pharmacist is monitored, the cold chain is usually interrupted as soon as a patient receives the medication.

Solution: With an actively controlled and remotely monitored cooling system, the cold chain can be closed, thus enabling safe transport. Data communication and device management based on M2M SIM cards in conjunction with the Cloud of Things platform ensure seamless monitoring.

Customer benefit: Continuous control thanks to the remote monitoring of the cooling. This reduces costs and improves the efficiency of medicines.

Task: Dethleffs used technically outmoded hand-held scanners and paper lists to manage its parking spaces. That led to delays because vehicles were not in place punctually for the next production step.

Solution: Using an app-based solution developed by Deutsche Telekom joint venture SYFIT GmbH, the hand-held scanner’s GPS position is established as soon as employees scan the bar codes on the vehicle.

Customer benefit: Drivers can locate vehicles swiftly and securely, thereby eliminating lengthy parking site searches and production delays. Pressing a button triggers an audit-compliant inventory. That reduces effort and expense.

Task: To learn more about brewery customers’ consumer behavior Hoffmann + Krippner has developed a smart beermat. For its connectivity the manufacturer was looking for a universally usable wireless IoT solution that requires neither installation nor configuration.

Solution: Telekom’s M2M SIM cards can be permanently integrated into the beermat and send data to the Cloud of Things via the NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) mobile radio standard.

Customer benefit: Users need only to switch the connected device on. It doesn’t have to register with a WLAN router or to be configured; the beermats log into the NB-IoT network automatically and are ready for use immediately. NB-IoT also operates from anywhere in buildings, including basements.

Task: Building areas should be optimally adapted to the actual needs of the tenants. The implementation of a monitoring system for use-oriented service and the avoidance of unnecessarily demanded resources was the primary goal here.

Solution: Unique complete package consisting of: Sensors according to need and scenario, IoT gateway, IoT cloud platform and portal (Connected Things Hub), optional extension with any customer system, integration and support.

Customer benefit: Reduction of costs caused by unnecessary heating, unnecessarily opened windows and switched-on lights. Near real-time monitoring of space usage, building technology and comfort parameters. 

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Task: There’s a huge amount of time and cost pressure on construction sites. The logistical effort involved in device management and power reading is a major challenge. Until now, the flow of information has been inefficient and lengthy.

Solution: Fully automated recording and documentation of energy consumption values from 20,000 power measurement boxes in the field. Mobile transmission of energy consumption data to Telekom’s Cloud of Things.

Customer benefit: Less effort – manual work is no longer necessary, e.g. recording and transfer to the billing systems. Further advantages: Significant time savings due to fast, paperless recording of meter readings and predictable costs with the end-to-end solution at a monthly rental price per measurement box.

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Task: The company was looking for a solution that would make the entire status of critical freight transports transparent in real time.

Solution: The Bee devices are equipped with sensors and attached to the transported goods. From the start of their journey, they report location, temperature, manipulation, humidity, light, change of position, pressure and movement in real time to the web portal via dashboard.

Customer benefit: The risks of theft, manipulation and delay are minimized. In the event of a delay, those responsible for transport are no longer dependent on individual statements, but are informed in real time. They can then immediately make corrections and proactively inform their customers.

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Task: Documenting healthcare takes so much time that hospital staff then no longer have at their disposal for direct contact with the patient. Together with Telekom, Mainz University Hospital was looking for a way to ease the burden of documentation.

Solution: The Healthcare Service Button is based on the IoT Service Button and was adapted for processes at Mainz University Hospital. Thanks to NarrowBand IoT the button is connected to the Internet. It is battery-powered, a power saver, and runs independently of mains electricity.

Customer benefit: The button saves the employees time and the hospital money. Ordering and registering vacuum pumps used to take 30 minutes; it now takes just a few minutes per device. The cost of the solution is recouped fast.

Task: AVANT was using Google Maps to spontaneously plan routes for its cleaning teams once the order was received. This was inefficient and led to high fuel consumption.

Solution: With Drive & Track, AVANT uses 23 dongles as plug-n-play GPS tracking devices that can easily be plugged into OBD2 interfaces in vehicles. Locations can be called up almost in real time via an online portal and routes can be planned for the cleaning teams.

Customer benefit: Reduction of costs by 15 to 20 percent after only three months due to lower fuel consumption and optimized service times. In addition, AVANT can now offer employees an electronic logbook for the private use of company vehicles.

Task: The call center of Frankfurt taxi booking service best.ways handles fares for around 400 cabs. best.ways faces increasing pressure from international competitors like Uber.

Solution: best.ways uses the IoT Service Button as a “taxi bell.” The compact, battery-powered bell incorporates a SIM card that sends taxi orders by Narrow Band IoT to the Cloud of Things, where the details are relayed to the best.ways fare distribution system.

Customer benefit: Hotel, restaurant and hospital employees used to have to make a phone call to order a cab. In the future they will only need to press the bell. That will reduce the workload of best.ways call center employees while the company handles a significantly larger number of taxi requests.

Task: Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defense commissioned its service provider to bring more transparency to the mobility needs of the sections. Taking into account the high demands on IT security and data protection.

Solution: The 60 vehicles of a pilot service were equipped with a dongle (with its own SIM card). The real-time data about locations, routes travelled, start and end times was transferred to the secure Telekom cloud.

Customer benefit: Each agency can see transparently to what extent the mobility services used match its real needs. Flexibility and vehicle utilization are increased and fewer vehicles will have to be purchased and maintained in the future.

Task: A contemporary lighting system was to be developed for the port and industrial city of Gijon. The previous system didn’t meet the same technical standards as other public services.

Solution: Monitoring the lighting network using centralized control systems in the T-Systems cloud. Deployment of new applications from the city council and integration into existing applications.

Customer benefit: Savings of 100,000 euros per year through improved use of resources and energy savings through efficient use of modern LED 1040 light points. And finally, the use of IoT to integrate various intelligent services.

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Task: The city of Bonn is to offer freely usable databases via the DIH. This is a "citizens' portal" that provides information about places of interest, wi-fi hotspot locations and waste collection dates.

Solution: The Data Intelligence Hub allows data to be made publicly available, based on the self-service model. Deutsche Telekom ensures the integration of data, the retention of data sovereignty and the maintenance of a constantly growing data portal.

Customer benefit: As a cloud-based solution, the DIH is available around the clock and independent of end device and system. Security and trust are top priorities: The data transfer is encrypted and only takes place between the selected partners.