Katharina Schmid

Structured innovation without PowerPoint – Lego building block kit for IoT projects

With its smart subscription tool, AXULUS provides a standardized knowledge base enriched with IoT know-how, and the answer to how to get this knowledge on the road – or into a warehouse, as in the specific use case of this podcast episode. AXULUS is a Reply company and sees itself as an innovative problem solver and idea provider through scalable IoT applications. The one-and-a-half-year-old start-up is active across the entire industrial landscape, supporting mechanical engineering and pharmaceutical companies as well as logistics service providers and electronic manufacturing services. Together with its customers, AXULUS implements a wide variety of IoT use cases by providing them with step-by-step guidance and supporting the entire process. This podcast’s use case is about using an autonomous drone to inventory a warehouse. The “Thing” of the Internet of Things is the drone, a dynamic sensor that flies around and learns. It collects valuable data by scanning barcodes, taking photos and sending them via a long-range Bluetooth interface to a platform where inventory results are eventually visualized. The path to the solution works according to the building block scheme: I have a problem that I want to solve digitally – I access existing templates at AXULUS and configure them like LEGO building blocks individually according to my needs – the Solution Designers then edit and perfect my use case and initiate the installation workflow digitally. Florian Beil has been working in the field of Industrial IoT for many years and has always found that “it’s not that easy to integrate a new technology into an existing system”. Exactly this challenge is addressed with AXULUS. The primary goal is to implement IoT technology in a problem- and solution-based manner, scalable and with individual added value for the specific use case – and as tangibly and simply as possible for the user. Also in this podcast episode: Project work with PowerPoint and Excel adé, the most important KPIs and challenges in warehousing and which other advantages AXULUS offers.