

IoT in industry: Deutsche Telekom connects Kaeser Kompressoren's technical service carrying cases
- Compressed air specialist digitizes its processes.
- 4,000 carrying cases equipped with SIM cards and sensors.
- Full transparency over location of cases.
Your case is missing. What do you do? An annoying enough situation for holiday-makers, but for compressor specialist Kaeser Kompressoren it can be particularly expensive. As a result, the manufacturer of compressed air systems solutions has now connected the first 400 of around 4,000 technical service carrying cases to the cloud with the support of
In the past, Kaeser often had difficulty keeping track of the location and status of its carrying cases. Technicians hook up the measuring equipment to machines for a period of at least ten days in order to gather a detailed picture of the customer's actual compressed air requirements and compressor utilization levels. "The result was that some carrying cases were difficult to pinpoint or had gone missing altogether," says Oliver Pschirrer, head of technical service at Kaeser Kompressoren. "The losses were very costly for us and the cases difficult to replace." Now, every carrying case sends information on its current location to the IoT platform operated by Deutsche Telekom subsidiary
Anette Bronder, director at
In future, Kaeser and
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