IoT podcast #1: current and future IoT trends, with the CEO of Wiboot

Hello everyone and welcome to this new Mobility Work podcast!

In this first episode of our new podcast series dedicated to IoT in industry, we look at the future of the industry, namely IoT and IIoT, by meeting Julien Morin, CEO and co-founder of Wiboot. He presents us with the main trends in these technologies that are increasingly used in industrial maintenance, often in combination with new generation CMMS applications such as Mobility Work.

Wiboot is a young company created in June 2020 by two seasoned professionals in the design of electronic cards, SaaS software and mobile applications. Its two founders have a long experience in the industry and in particular in corrective and preventive maintenance.

The development of IoT in industrial maintenance

Wiboot offers solutions, mainly to large French groups but also internationally, to putIoT (the Internet of Things) for the real-time monitoring of the operation of machines and equipment. Companies can thus adopt conditional and predictive maintenance plans that offer significant returns on investment in millions of euros, by avoiding numerous shutdowns in the production chain thanks to a much faster detection of failures.

In this podcast, the CEO of Wiboot presents us with the concrete applications of the use of IoT for industrial maintenance: recording occupancy time and machine use, automating meter reading, reducing intervention time, anticipating future breakdowns by monitoring the vibration of motors or certain components of the production chain. A lesser-known but very useful use of IoT is to validate the impact of new settings on machines by monitoring vibrations, temperature, or sound.

What are the trends for IoT?

In addition, Julien Morin gives us his vision of current trends around IoT. According to him, the perception of the added value provided by this technology will continue to develop among manufacturers as IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) solutions will be democratized and become more accessible, both technically and financially.

He is already noticing a trend to adopt these solutions for sensitive equipment and no longer only for critical equipment.

While Wiboot has so far mainly worked with large industrial groups that have already digitized their critical equipment well and are now seeking to do so with their sensitive equipment, Julien Morin notes a growing interest from medium-sized companies and even small and medium-sized businesses. They have similar needs but different expectations and constraints. They want to acquire data on their equipment at the best price and especially without hidden costs (training, structural modifications, etc.), and are therefore turning to turnkey solutions and systems that are easy to install and configure.

Making IoT and CMMS more accessible

Wiboot is also positioned as a major player in the democratization of industrial IoT, with an approach based on use, by offering simplified applications that are integrated into customer information systems. Their configuration and commissioning in “no code” thus require no particular technical skills, and the transparency of costs is total, with ancillary costs being taken into account from the outset.

So many points in common with Mobility Work, includingCMMS application breaks with the complexity of setting up and using traditional CMMS software.