Innovations: Drones and IoT

Everyone keeps “droning” on about moving your SAP application and infrastructure to the cloud… But at Kagool, we’ve been using innovations of the Azure Modern Data Platform to ensure our clients make better use of their data.

With Microsoft Azure, our IoT and mixed reality team have been working on the practical business applications of synchronising the data collected by drones. They can perform time-consuming, low-level tasks, making your business more efficient by driving process improvement.

A couple of business use cases for drones we’ve been asked to investigate include:

• Production line checks in the manufacturing industry
• Quality inspection in the gas industry 

Instead of these tasks eating up people’s valuable time, drones can make these checks for your business, and automatically send messages to people to check out any faults or discrepancies they find. 

Kagool is driving innovations in the mixed reality and Internet of Things (IoT) fields. Any system that involves machinery which is difficult to access can benefit from these technologies. 

Rather than sending in engineers for maintenance checks, our clients can set up sensors and cameras on the system, and create a digital twin to represent the machinery in real time. Now, engineers don’t have to travel to the site every time they need to check everything is running smoothly, or when they want to diagnose a problem. Instead, they can quickly see exactly what’s going on virtually, from wherever they are already. 

From wind farms to underground pipes to trainlines, virtual reality and IoT can make maintenance more efficient and cost-effective. And all you need to put this into place is integrate your SAP data into Microsoft Azure.