Software development for Internet of Things

IoT infrastructure improves production and operations

With an IoT system on manufacturing, people can predict the moment of equipment’s exhaustion and replace it beforehand. Monitoring systems and sensors detect inefficiencies and defects when they just start to show up, so there is a window of opportunity to minimize their impact. Industries where a lot of different variables are involved in production or operations — such as temperature, pressure, etc. will benefit from sensors signaling something is off: that could be vital for the pharmaceutical supply chain, healthcare labs, transportation businesses, manufacturing, and retail.

IoT optimizes employees’ workflows and management processes

Inefficient management is costly for every organization. Let’s take bed management in hospitals. Free beds are significant if there is, for instance, a flu outbreak nearby. IoT devices notify whether patients will be released from the care. A people analytics engine forecasts the peak of an illness outbreak. Combined, these two help hospitals prepare staff and beds for the “season” preventively - for instance, send those in not-critical condition home to accept patients from ED. Smart notifications, connected to patients’ wearables, though, help nurses prioritize routing and provide care to those who need it. Inventory management also can be largely improved through product sensors — or shelves sensors.

Application of IoT decreases the risks and costs of production

As IoT systems detect and notify businesses about potential bottlenecks and breakdowns, businesses gain the ability to act on the catastrophe before it happens and mitigate its consequences. Therefore, companies that decide to adopt IoT on their floors / in their processes benefit from being able to know for sure and make better, more accurate business decisions, schedule upgrades and repairs where it’s needed.

IoT boosts customer engagement and advances promotion

Retailers are one of the first who figures out the immense value IoT and analytics can bring to their business, and most of them agree it’s the best data gathering method. In-store IoT infrastructure helps retailers understand how customers are moving through the shops and wireless connection to their phones helps them find the needed product. The same technology, by the way, works for airports and provides travelers with the extremely valuable opportunity of not being late.

IoT ensures secure and safe supply chains

There is also a point of fraud or anomaly detection in products moving across the supply chain: when sensors, for instance, know the package with meds was unpacked not on the scheduled time — or when it is obvious that food didn’t survive the heat. Anomaly events allow businesses to figure out bad staff and fix it, without it making its way to the customers.

IoT’s wearables and healthcare devices improve care outcomes

Wearables and other connected healthcare devices that monitor people’s life signs make physicians’ decisions more accurate and give them the tools to, again, act preventively on worrying symptoms. On the other side of the deal, people feel more in control when they can see how their state is embodied in numbers and how these numbers are changing when they, e.g. increase physical activities, choose a diet, or get better from the sickness.