Patrick Egloff

Business model in wholesale – added value through IoT for electrical, heating and sanitary installations

In this podcast episode, Zander, a B2B electrical, heating and plumbing wholesaler, explains the use of its codestryke IoT solution for customers and how they can save costs and profit in the long term by using data from purchased end devices. Nowadays, products and building technology are not only sold, but additionally networked to ensure energy efficiency and sustainability. The discussed use case is about energy meters, how they are connected, which pain points of the customers are alleviated and which additional benefits arise from their connectivity. How does the networking of energy meters and other products work? The overall solution from IoT service provider codestryke consists of a hardware component and a software component. The premise in the development of the IoT solution was, in addition to long-term scalable connectivity, simple commissioning in the style of a vacuum cleaning robot, as codestryke director Philipp Mayer makes the comparison. The result is a three-click commissioning process that takes just a few minutes and can be carried out without any IT knowledge. The application is also intuitive and simple: If, for example, the lighting system in a building has been converted to LED, a timestamp can be set in the so-called energy monitor with one click and from that point onwards it is possible to track how much electricity is saved from now on. Data from load profiles, load curves or energy consumption per square meter are used to visualize further savings potential. The whole thing is supported by Siemens MindSphere. What the hardware component of the solution looks like, how the data from the energy meters is tapped, as well as tips on developing and implementing IoT solutions, can be found in the 41st episode of the IIoT Use Case Podcast all about the “IoT-sification” of the wholesale business.