HELSINKI, Feb. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ABI Research has
published a research article on an innovative new IoT deployment in
the area of facility and workflow management. As part of its
FlowAbility service, Lindström Group, a leading Finnish
multinational B2B textile services provider has implemented an IoT
solution to improve customer experience and improve personnel
workflow.
According to ABI Research Location Technologies analyst
Sam McLaughlin - "The FlowAbility
Washroom solution will enable the Lindström Group to achieve its
strategic goal of improving customer experience, by implementing a
low-cost custom sensor design with a complementary mesh networking
solution to provide scalability."
Facility management is a vital component and service to any
business and its buildings, with personnel routinely ensuring areas
including washrooms are maintained to a high standard in hospitals,
schools and shopping malls. Cleaning staff frequently check whether
there are enough cotton towels in hand towel dispensers for
example, resulting in staff walking up to 10 kilometers per day. In
some facilities, dispensers become empty frequently, for example in
restaurants located within major airports serving thousands of
customers per day.
As part of its FlowAbility service, Lindström Group decided to
implement an IoT solution to improve customer experience and
improve personnel workflow. The concept behind Lindström Group's
FlowAbility Washrooms is the enablement of hand towel dispensers
with sensors to measure the distance between the dispenser and hand
towels. As the quantity of hand towels decreases, the distance
subsequently increases. After the distance increases beyond a
specified level, real-time notifications and data is simultaneously
sent to the Cloud and cleaning personnel. Cleaning personnel are
able to note which specific dispenser at the customers premise is
running out of towels and refill it.
Lindström chose Wirepas Mesh on the Haltian Thingsee IoT
platform to provide reliable wireless connectivity for Lindström
Group customers across their facilities. The solution offers
bi-directional communication and location information in
combination with Haltian's Thingsee platform.
The primary solution requirements was cost effectiveness, in
order to provide a scalable hygiene service for both small and
large customers in Finland and
their subsidiaries abroad. This is especially important considering
Lindström Group currently has over 100,000 hand towel dispensers in
Finland alone, equating to over 3
million roll changes per annum. Key performance indicators for such
a system are service volumes for both current and new customers,
and customer feedback of the new service.
Download the full report at:
https://wirepas.com/knowledge/
Meet the Wirepas team to find out how Wirepas Mesh is
uniquely able to power this and other innovative IoT use
cases:
- Bosch Connected World in Berlin, Feb
21-22, booth A12
- Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 26 February - 1 March, booth
3B10
- Embedded World in Nuremberg 27 February- 1 March, Booth 110 in
Hall 2.
- LogiMAT in Stuttgart, 13-15
March, Booth ES4
Further information:
Sebastian
Linko
Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Investor
Relations
+358(0)40-023-6607
sebastian.linko(at)wirepas.com
Wirepas in Brief
Wirepas Mesh enables wireless IoT networking at massive scale.
It is a de-centralized IoT network protocol that can be used to
connect, locate and identify lights, sensors, beacons, assets,
machines and meters in cities, buildings, industry, logistics and
energy - with unprecedented scale, density, flexibility and
reliability. It can be used on any radio hardware and on any
frequency band. Wirepas has its headquarters in Tampere, Finland and offices in Australia, France, Germany, South
Korea, the UK and the United
States.
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