SAP Launches New IoT Solution: SAP Connected Goods

SAP has recently launched SAP Connected Goods, a new cloud-based IoT solution delivered on HANA Cloud Platform. It is designed to automate core processes by connecting with smart devices, for example vending machines, ensuring adequate stock levels, proper storage conditions, monitor performance, utilisation, and proper functioning.

According to 2015 IDC Worldwide Internet of Things Forecast, by 2020, there will be a projected 30 billion connected devices, appliances, machines, and other physical objects. Not just smartphones and tablets, but almost anything with a sensor on it – coffee makers, cars, cattle, machines in production plants, jet engines, oil drills, wearable devices, and more. Communicating over the Internet through embedded sensors, these objects are expected to help generate 403 trillion gigabytes of data per year by 2018.

SAP solutions for the IoT are built on the SAP HANA platform. HANA supports natively smart data streaming and access, dynamic tiering, smart data integration and quality, series data, multitenant database containers, graph engine modelling, L2 delta optimisations, and predictive analytics. SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT is extended with a rich set of services, for example services for the connected car, and includes remote device management, message management, and application enablement with a set of APIs. In SAP IoT portfolio there is also a number of solutions dedicated for specific use cases, like SAP IoT SIM management for SAP HANA (SIMM), connecting devices with SIM cards.

In addition to the features described above, the on premise version of IoT platform includes technology to connect to physical objects located at the edge of the network. These include:
• SAP SQL Anywhere solutions – allows to capture and store data locally on connected devices, and exchange data using highly scalable, session-based synchronization technology
• SAP Event Stream Processor – capturing machine data at the source with a standalone, complex event processing engine
• SAP IQ software – managing data volumes at the petabyte scale with a high-performance, columnar-structured analytical database
• Integration to Apache – direct access the Hadoop distributed file system and the MapReduce programming model with user-defined functions in SAP HANA.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network that connects people, data, processes, and physical objects. IoT deals with machines, devices, appliances and their services, middleware software that connects them, IoT-oriented data analytics, and business applications that can use this data.