LeaderTelecom takes part in the Global IoT Day Event 2015

LeaderTelecom participated in the Global IoT (Internet of Things) Day Event 2015, held on  April 9 in Vienna, Austria. The event brought together various companies, universities, organisations, and members of the public who wanted to share their knowledge, experience and skills relating to IoT.

The event presented a variety of open source solutions for working with  IoT, and brought  together various different devices which could be linked to each other. For example, at the event, TinkerForge,  a modular system,  was presented, which allows the user  to create a variety of industrial prototypes.

In his speech, Chris Foraita discussed the problems of IoT development. He pointed to some of the typical difficulties that may be encountered in product development, as well as revealing some design techniques that enable companies to focus on the opportunities that are important to users.

Walter Oberreiter talked about the use of IoT in production. The main focus was on case studies of  typical industrial uses,  as well as innovative business models, opportunities and challenges in the context of Industry 4.0.

Peter Dollfuss’ presentation  was devoted to the effective application of the  Proof of Concept methodology in the industrial segment. The audience heard about  the development and implementation of IoT-making in various spheres of our lives. Dollfuss’ company simply offered  enterprises ways of  improving the efficiency of production processes through the development of appropriate IoT-solutions. He gave the example of a project to introduce coffee machines for online stores. Whilst consumption of coffee was the principal concern, the project took into account how the purchase and delivery of products was planned, with the aim of minimising downtime. The second example involved the collection of data from asphalt pavers. If the temperature of the asphalt falls below a certain limit, the driver needs to go back and start the whole process again.  The company has eliminated  the use of mobile devices, and simply linked up to  the sensor button, which displays the current temperature. 

 There were, of course, some light-hearted moments.  Gregory Estrade, for example,  used his speech to highlight  the safety and use of IoT SSL for the secure transmission of data. Stefan Bumerl gave an entertaining presentation  entitled «IoT - Identity of Things!» in which he discussed the importance of the relationship between human  and device identities.