The Bosch Connected World - #BCW - is one of the largest conferences on digital transformation. “The future lies in the net," said Volkmar Denner, Chairman of Bosch, at the start of BCW 2018, which attracted more than 4,000 visitors to Berlin. The event is focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and thus around 20 billion devices, which will be networked with each other and with the Internet in two years' time.
The 70 exhibitors - including numerous departments from the Bosch Group, young start-ups and IT companies such as Microsoft and CONTACT Software - showed what is already possible today and where the journey is heading. A significant part of Bosch's products and systems are designed to solve the problems of road traffic. The production facilities of the future will also be networked like the car and its surroundings. The vast amounts of data are stored, viewed and evaluated in a cloud.
Digital twin as pivot and linchpin
At our booth, we showed how CONTACT Elements for IoT can be used to implement processes for smart business models very quickly and effectively. The linchpin is the digital twin. It connects the real products in the field with their virtual master over the entire product lifecycle. A highlight of our presentation: The interactive visualization of the digital twin on the basis of its 3D model, in order to identify problem and spare parts or to present simulation results.
The central role of open source software
Partnerships and the use of open source software are a central component of Bosch's IoT strategy. The Group has been working very closely with the Eclipse Foundation for some time now. Several projects of the Eclipse IoT Working Group were a topic at the conference - among them the Production Performance Management Testbed, which CONTACT developed together with Bosch and other well-known partners. The sensor manufacturer Balluff presented the project, in which different modules from our Elements for IoT platform are used, together with other participating companies in two discussion panels. Eclipse and CONTACT also presented the testbed at an extra booth.
All in all, the BCW 2018 was a top-class, international IoT event from which we took good impulses and interesting new contacts with us. Those who were unable to attend this year's conference can take a look at some of the highlights on YouTube.
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