2017
Digital Rail Summit 2017
The ‘Internet of Things’
What is it? How does it work?
Richard White
David Gate
Director, Strategic Consulting
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Head of IoT Consulting
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Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
About EAMS Group
 IBM Business Partner 2017 Global Award for outstanding
IBM Watson IOT and EAM solution development
 Specialist EAM Organisation
 Products and Services based on 10 years’ development across asset intensive industries
 EAMS Group Solutions and Products benchmarked as world leading
 Digital Asset Management - Visualisation, IOT and Analytics end to end Platforms across
entire asset lifecycle
 Development partnerships with world leading product vendors
 ~60 Expert specialised personnel experienced in EAM, Consultancy and Technology Services
 Unrivalled ROI generated with our clients
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Agenda
What is the Internet of Things?
What are the Benefits for Enterprise Asset & Safety
Management?
How do we maximise the value of IOT?
Digital Rail Summit 2017
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
What is the Internet of Things (IOT)
“Internet of Things” – coined by Kevin Ashton of P&G – 1999
“thing” – any object with embedded electronics & network connectivity
“internet of things” – a network of “things” communicating with each other,
typically with supporting capabilities to extract value (e.g. security, data storage,
signal processing/interpretation)
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
Why has IoT taken 18 years to reach us?
The Internet of Things is a technology tipping point, the combination of newer
technologies becoming ever cheaper and more readily available, such as:
Internet Connectivity
Sensor hardware
Cloud Computing
Along with
Big Data
Predictive Analytics
Cognitive Computing
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
What is the Internet of Things (IOT)
An IOT technology stack usually looks something like the following
Operational
Control
Scada
BMS
etc
Mobile
Workforce
Live Processing
& Actions
IOT
Enabled
sensors
EAM
Gateways & Network
Message
Broker
Time Series
Storage/Historian
Predictive &
Cognitive Toolsets
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
What is the Internet of Things (IOT)
An IOT technology stack usually look something like the following
Scada
BMS
etc
Operational
Control
Intelligent
Operations
Centre
Live Processing
& Actions
IOT
Enabled
sensors
Gateways & Network
Mobile
Workforce
EAM
Maximo
Message
Broker
Watson APIs
Time Series
Storage/Historian
Watson IOT Platform
Predictive &
Cognitive Toolsets
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
What is the Internet of Things (IOT)
An IOT technology stack usually look something like the following
Operational
Control
Scada
BMS
etc
Value Opportunity
and ROI
Live Processing
& Actions
IOT
Enabled
sensors
Gateways, Edge
Analytics & Network
Mobile
Workforce
EAM
Message
Broker
Current Spend and Trends
Time Series
Storage/Historian
Predictive &
Cognitive Toolsets
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
Typical Benefits
 Improve response time to incidents
 Tune historical preventative maintenance regimes with real time condition/performance
 Enable predictive
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
How do we use IoT in EAM?
Get the fundamentals of EAM in place first.
“Next generation” Asset Information Specifications
FMEA & associated metering points – context for IoT data
Asset Systems models – structure for impact & criticality analysis
Processes enforced by the system – guarantee data quality
Accurate Asset Register – provide the context for IoT data streams
Focused IoT deployment – Target Key Assets which fail often and/or have high
impact on service, cost or performance
Richard White and David Gate – EAMS Group
Digital Rail Summit 2017
The EAM IOT Journey
Basic IOT (Improved and Streamlined Reactive/Condition Based Maintenance)
 Automate Scada/BMS data and alarms directly into EAM – create actionable
work and/or update asset condition
 Retro fit IOT sensors to non-intelligent high priority assets
Advanced IOT (Predictive and Cognitive Maintenance)
 Feed sensor and EAM data into predictive and cognitive toolsets to predict
failures and move away from reactive and preventative maintenance
Plus harness all the operational benefits once the IOT Platform is in place