The first deployment will see RS Components (RS) combining LoRaWAN sensors with ThingPark X data connectors and IBM’s Watson IoT Platform and IBM Maximo Asset Management to enable predictive maintenance and process optimization in their Nuneaton warehouse. ThingPark X extends the ThingPark IoT Platform, allowing data from any device connected to a ThingPark-powered network to be aggregated, transformed, analyzed and exposed to applications by standard APIs or delivered onward to third party cloud platforms such as IBM Watson.
RS is one of the world’s largest electronics and industrial-components distributors, offering more than 500,000 products to more than a million customers. “We are partnering with IBM Watson IoT and Actility ThingPark to put in place a LPWAN-to-cloud network in our 70,000 sq. feet warehouse in Nuneaton,” said Paul Redmond, business relationship manager at RS. “This initiative has the potential to deliver hundreds of thousands of pounds of savings through the application of predictive maintenance to optimize performance and uptime, and big data to improve productivity, efficiency and energy sustainability.”
