For many ERP systems, the important part of digital transformation will be integrating with IoT, connecting enterprise system and business solutions with devices and sensors in the field. I will not focus on benefits of this, I will just list a few obvious applications – IoT based real-time production, smart offices and warehouses, smart cities,… is all possible using IoT and existing AI capabilities. For real production systems, you would use one of many excellent end-to-end IoT solutions, that come with both sensors, hubs and APIs, like for example these guys, or to simplify your integration further, these guys . The latter ones have a number of cool videos showing different applications of IoT and one of them was inspiration for this blog.

For educational, creative and experimental purposes, or if you just like to tinker with such, a DIY kit for sensors will suffice. This post will show one of those examples. If you can’t be bothered to read through the whole process, just scroll down to the end, and watch the 30 sec. video of the end result. Continue reading “(MS Dynamics) NAV Of Things” →