Adaptive Wireless Solutions

Hollingsworth and Vose wanted to improve the efficiency of their compressed air system, lower the electricity expense component of manufacturing cost in their commodity industry, and conserve energy leading to lowered greenhouse gas emissions. Compressed air systems degrade over time and become leaky and inefficient. Hollingsworth and Vose wanted to increase the frequency of system inspections without paying the high cost of manual labor.

The customer’s manufacturing process takes raw aluminum billets and uses a cold rolling process to produce rolled aluminum goods. A throughput bottleneck was identified at the cooling station as the existing temperature measurement process required the crane operator to climb down from the crane regularly and perform direct measurements on the rolls.

The customer needed to monitor non-contact alignment and non-contact process temperature in different positions along a 100-meter production line. Space around the line is tight and operators and forklift trucks are passing by constantly. Installation of correctly routed cables from sensors back to the control station would have been expensive and would have taken too long and caused too much disruption to ongoing operations.

HMS Industrial Networks is the leading independent supplier of products for industrial communication. HMS develops and manufactures solutions under three brands: Anybus, IXXAT and eWON. HMS products enable industrial devices to connect to different industrial networks and also be monitored and controlled remotely. The company is headquartered in Halmstad, Sweden and has development centers in Germany and Belgium. Local sales and support are handled by branch offices in China, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, UK and USA, plus distributors in more than 50 countries. HMS employs over 450 people and is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. HMS manufactures and markets industrial communication products which connect industrial devices to different industrial networks. HMS products act as translators between robots, control systems, motors, sensors, etc. and the different industrial networks that exist on the market (fieldbuses and Industrial Ethernet). HMS also offers products for Remote Management - web-based control of field equipment such as Power Generators, Tanks, Telecom Base Stations, Buildings etc.

With a rich 24-year history of innovation in the wireless space we have been first to market with many technology solutions for global customers.Our innovative products and solutions already connect thousands of businesses to critical data and millions of people to information. Our customers Trust us to develop products and services that get them to market faster and can in turn, help save lives, reduce carbon emissions, and make neighborhoods safer.Sierra Wireless designs modems that enable PCs, notebook computers, and vehicles to communicate wirelessly. Its products are used for Internet access, e-mail, database access, vehicle dispatch, and a range of machine-to-machine applications. Its product lines include AirPrime (embedded wireless modules), AirLink (intelligent gateways), and AirVantage (machine-to-machine cloud products). The company sells directly and through resellers, primarily to customers in North America. Manufacturers also embed the company's wireless modules into their computing products.

Smart Sense is a Croatian IT company consisting of both tech magicians and business savants, on a mission of closing the gap between physical and cyber world with innovative state-of-the-art IoT solutions. Their ultimate goal is to enable a more delightful everyday life for our end users, so relax and enjoy the Smart sense complete home/life solutions. The most important thing to know about Smart Sense is that we are fueled by a passion for technology. That aforementioned passion is maintained by a variety of experts from different fields: software, hardware, and business alike. Our focus of interest is Internet of Things, the idea of techtopia where all the things around us are connected, communicating and working in perfect harmony. We are aware that this task is distant, expensive and not easily achievable. However, quitting is not our credo and shying away from a challenge is not our modus operandi. We are ready to abandon the adequate and search for phenomenal. For this purpose only, we write our own software, we create our own hardware and we tread bravely towards the interconnected reality and the Holy Grail of networking: The Internet of Everything.

Blue Maestro develop health and environmental monitoring and control devices utilising the latest in low energy wireless and smartphone technology. With a keen focus on design and an approach that challenges traditional rules on how products must look, feel and be interacted with they seek to create products that are not only incredibly powerful through smartphone and internet connectivity but are also aesthetically pleasing and feel special to use.