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Asset tracking solutions use IoT-enabled sensors and devices to track a huge variety of assets large and small, including hospital and lab equipment, individual vehicles in a fleet, or products along a manufacturing process.

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Asset Tracking

Animal tracking solutions use IoT-enabled sensors and location technology, like GPS, to track the location and health of animals for applications from wildlife conservation, to consumer pet tracking, to commercial livestock health monitoring.

Animal Tracking

Boat tracking solutions use IoT-enabled sensors and devices to track the location and performance of boats to prevent theft, manage fleets, and enable rescuers to return stranded boats to safety.

Boat Tracking

Equipment tracking is a subset of asset tracking that monitors the location of equipment through IoT-enabled sensors and devices. Equipment tracking is useful in a variety of environments, from construction sites to hospitals, to prevent theft and loss and improve operational efficiency.

Equipment Tracking

Fleet management solutions use IoT-enabled sensors and devices to remotely monitor the location and performance of individual vehicles in a fleet. Fleet management solutions allow managers greater visibility of their deployments on the road, including fuel and route efficiency, and the condition and safety of cargo.

Fleet Management

People tracking solutions track and monitor the locations of individual people. People tracking solutions may include contact tracing applications and devices, solutions for tracking children, or precise customer tracking solutions in retail.

People Tracking

Trailer tracking enables new visibility into the location and performance of trailers. Through IoT-enabled sensors and devices, stakeholders can see the condition and location of trailers, as well as measure the stress their cargo is put under - including temperature, shock, tilt, and impact.

Trailer Tracking

Vehicle tracking uses IoT-enabled sensors and devices to monitor the location of vehicles. Vehicle tracking solutions can be useful for increasing the efficiency of routes, ensuring the timely arrival of deliveries, or providing an extra level of security for school buses.

Vehicle Tracking

Freight and package tracking is leveraging IoT-enabled location sensors and positioning systems to view the location, speed, direction of travel, and expected arrival information of a shipment in real time. This can apply to consumer shipping or industrial freight, cargo, and supply chain.

Freight and Package Tracking

Automation is the use of technology to control processes, systems, or machines with little human intervention. It can improve efficiency and accuracy and reduce costs by eliminating manual work. It is widely used in different industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and finance.

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Automation

Building automation is the practice of streamlining and automating operational processes in a building, including adjusting temperature and controlling access. Building automation utilizes IoT-enabled sensors and devices to reduce operational costs, improve energy efficiency, and reduce repetitive tasking in office buildings, and residential and commercial spaces.

Building Automation

Home automation, also called Smart Home Management, uses a variety of consumer IoT sensors and devices to automate processes within the home. Home automation Applications can include access management, through smart locks, or energy conservation through smart thermostats and utility meters.

Smart Home

Industrial automation utilizes IoT-enabled devices and sensors to remove humans from menial or repetitive processes, often in the manufacturing industry. Industrial automation helps reduce human error, improve efficiency, and give managers greater visibility into critical processes in industrial settings.

Industrial Automation

Personal assistants perform simple, automated tasks to help users accomplish tasks faster and more efficiently. Personal assistants can often send simple commands to other IoT devices on the network and respond to queries.

Personal Assistant

Process automation uses IoT-enabled sensors and devices to gather information and make real-time decisions to streamline processes and remove humans from repetitive, menial tasks. By utilizing process automation, companies can eliminate human error, improve operational efficiency, and increase ROI.

Process Automation

Factory automation is how an industrial process can be automated by using IoT-enabled devices and sensors to find efficiencies and remove humans from menial or repetitive processes in the smart manufacturing industry. Factory automation helps reduce human error, improve efficiency, and give managers greater visibility into critical processes in industrial settings.

Factory Automation

Preventative maintenance is work done regularly, on a schedule, to decrease the likelihood that equipment experiences malfunctions or downtime. This maintenance work is done while machines are working properly to avoid the need for putting them offline. The schedule usually is set based on manufacturer guidelines and experience and contrasts with predictive maintenance in that it does not require the use of IoT-enabled sensors or analytics. It can, however, result in greater expense through early replacement of parts or unnecessary dispatch of workers.

Preventative Maintenance

Predictive Analytics is the use of analytical processes and statistical modeling to predict the behavior of devices, machines, systems, and even people within IoT. These analytics use historical data and patterns to make predictions about the likely responses to expected or ongoing stimuli.

Predictive Analytics

Predictive maintenance is the method for using statistical analysis and historical data about a machine or IoT system in order to derive from its current condition when it will need maintenance or improvement. It relies heavily on Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence for these decisions.

The goal is to save money and time over scheduled maintenance because service is only performed when needed, resulting in less waste, and also in less downtime.

Predictive maintenance is different from preventive maintenance because the true current condition of the equipment is the basis for automated decision-making, rather than based on service period estimates.

Predictive Maintenance

Smart buildings are designed to leverage IoT, machine intelligence, and automation to make residential and commercial buildings more efficient and sustainable and to deliver useful services to occupants. Smart Building services can include IoT-enabled lighting, HVAC, air quality, security, sanitation, occupancy monitoring, and much more. They incorporate Edge networking and rely on intelligent analytics and machine learning to provide benefits to facility managers and owners. Often, they are also connected to local Smart Utilities.

Smart Building

Remote management utilizes IoT devices and sensors to enable users to check in on and interact with people, equipment, or animals from anywhere. Remote management solutions may range from patient health monitoring to remote equipment and process management.

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Remote Management

Facilities management uses IoT-enable devices and sensors to gather data and automate the processes involved in managing a commercial space. Applications may include occupancy monitoring and space utilization, or strategies to reduce energy costs and improve operational efficiency.

Facilities Management

Fill-level monitoring measures and tracks the stores of a liquid within a container. Applications cover a range of applications and industries, from monitoring fuel levels within equipment to chemical or fuel tank storage on-site.

Fill Level Monitoring

Inventory management solutions use IoT-enabled sensors and devices, like RFID tags, to tag and track inventory, typically in warehouses. Inventory management solutions improve operational efficiency, prevent inventory loss or theft, and reduce the cost of manual processes, which can be extremely time-consuming and laborious for employees.

Inventory Management

Keyless entry systems use IoT-enabled devices and sensors to control access to buildings or spaces. Keyless entry systems can use key fobs, phones, or other devices to verify a user's identity and manage locking mechanisms.

Keyless Entry

Leak detection solutions measure the pressure inside pipes or other closed systems to send instant alerts when a leak has been detected. Leak detection solutions eliminate the need for manual inspection, and lower the cost associated with the damage caused by undetected leaks.

Leak Detection

People management solutions use IoT-enabled sensors and devices to track and monitor the performance or health of people, rather than just location. People management solutions may include wearables that monitor staff members' performance, the health of patients both in the hospital and at home, or performance metrics associated with sports or fitness.

People Management

Points of sale systems utilize IoT to track inventory and give managers additional visibility into sales trends and customer behavior to help stores better appeal to customers, prevent theft, and improve operational efficiency.

Point of Sale

IoT can be extremely valuable for quality management, as it can eliminate human error on production lines and take humans off of menial, repetitive tasking. Quality management solutions use IoT-enabled sensors and devices to gather real-time data on production and can instantly identify discrepancies or errors in processes.

Quality Management

Rail management utilizes IoT-enabled sensors and devices to gather data on often remote and difficult-to-access rail switches and controls. Rail management solutions collect real-time data on rail operations and send instant alerts when errors occur or when maintenance is needed, helping to prevent unscheduled downtime.

Rail Management

IoT-enabled security solutions enable users to keep an eye on places or things from anywhere and at any time. Even when not armed, these solutions use sensors and devices to collect data and alert users in the case of unexpected events, like attempted entry.

Security

IoT enables greater visibility to supply chain management, tracking individual pieces of cargo, vehicles, and driver behavior to maximize efficiency and safety and ensure that deliveries make it on time and in exactly the condition they left in.

Supply Chain Management

In surveillance, IoT offers new visibility, even when stakeholders aren't nearby. Through IoT-enabled sensors and devices, surveillance systems can send alerts in the event of unexpected behavior or if the system goes down, even if a security system isn't currently armed.

Surveillance

Tank level monitoring measures the fill level of liquids within tanks, and uses a variety of technology dependent on the type of liquid being measured. Applications may include fuel level monitoring for equipment or chemical storage, and help stakeholders track usage levels and monitor for leaks or theft.

Tank Level Monitoring

Traffic management uses IoT-enabled sensors or devices to monitor traffic levels and can automatically flag authorities in the case of an unexpected jam, increasing the response time to accidents or dangerous conditions. Traffic management solutions can also help cities better anticipate issues and improve city planning initiatives.

Traffic Management

Smart utility meters and utility management uses IoT-enabled sensors to increase the efficiency of delivering utilities to commercial and residential spaces. These solutions can detect leaks or issues in equipment and send instant alerts to building managers to prevent damage and loss of products.

Utility Management

Through the integration of IoT, wearables provide a new way for users to communicate and interact with the world. Wearables can track a user's location, provide stats for exercise, or ensure that users can be found in the case of emergencies. They can provide health information both to users and their doctors or they can provide relevant information on their environment, including weather or dangerous conditions, such as on a construction site.

Wearables

Through IoT, wayfinding can become a more personalized experience for users. IoT in wayfinding relies on behavioral trends and real-time data to optimize routes and make suggestions to help users get where they're going, both indoors and out.

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Wayfinding

Indoor navigation uses indoor location technology to enable wayfinding and routing inside buildings. Indoor navigation can be used for indoor asset tracking or to guide users through a complex space.

Indoor Navigation

Outdoor navigation uses IoT-enabled sensors and devices to track objects outside of buildings. GPS is one of the most common technologies used for outdoor navigation and is useful for applications that require wayfinding and routing.

Outdoor Navigation

Route navigation uses location technologies to track people or vehicles and guide them along a predetermined route. Route navigation may include outdoor applications, like the consumer navigation applications we're familiar with, or indoor route navigation through buildings like malls, museums, or warehouses.

Route Navigation

Sustainability in IoT is about leveraging connected technology to reduce emissions and drive more energy-efficient operations. Sustainable strategies can benefit almost any vertical industry but are especially impactful in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and at the enterprise level, where economies of scale can result in exponential reductions in emissions and waste. IoT Sustainability strategies are becoming ever more important to the growth of Digital Transformation.

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Sustainability

ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. These three factors are used to evaluate a company's impact. Environmental factors include carbon footprints and use of renewable energy. Social factors include labor practices, human rights, and community involvement. Governance factors evaluate a company's leadership, management, and overall structure.

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