- Collaboration helps enterprises exploit
the power of Industry 4.0
- Manufacturer e.l.m. leblanc boosts its
customer satisfaction with joint solution
Orange Business Services and Microsoft are collaborating to
deliver large-scale, end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) solutions
that boost the digital processes of companies in the manufacturing
sector. Enterprises can use the Orange modular IoT solution,
Datavenue, strengthened by Microsoft Azure IoT Suite, to transition
to Industry 4.0 and optimize the entire manufacturing value
chain.
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Through this collaboration, companies can take advantage of the
combined expertise of Orange and Microsoft regarding data
protection, as well as device and data management. This includes
the opportunity to leverage Orange Business Services’ many IoT
connectivity options, in particular LoRa. Use cases range from
supply chain and smart inventory management to digital operations,
such as predictive maintenance, employee safety and facility and
equipment management.
Joint solution helps e.l.m. leblanc anticipate and better
handle maintenance activities
For its long-term customer e.l.m. leblanc, Orange delivered a
customized IoT platform on Microsoft Azure, which provides a
tailored solution for remote monitoring, along with curative and
predictive maintenance. Subsidiary of the Bosch Group, e.l.m.
leblanc manufactures gas boilers and water-heaters since 1932. The
company is a major player in the French housing and industrial
markets for heating & cooling systems and hot water for
sanitary use.
“Innovation is part of e.l.m. leblanc’s DNA, continuously
providing our customers with new services and more comfort. We have
a vision of a connected world where every heating system optimizes
its energy performance to protect the environment. This ambition is
illustrated in the Optibox solution for our connected boilers.
e.l.m. leblanc has fully relied on Orange Business Services’
expertise to develop this solution. Using the Azure Cloud allows
for high-level scalability and efficient machine learning solutions
with reasonable costs,” said Philippe Laforge, chief executive of
e.l.m. leblanc.
The remote monitoring solution collects the boiler’s data and
alerts technicians of any malfunction. This allows for more
efficient maintenance intervention, with fine-tuned predictions on
the probable causes of failure based on real-time data analytics.
Preemptive alerts can also be raised by the platform through
predictive maintenance algorithms. Benefits include optimization of
intervention processes, and increased end-customer satisfaction,
thanks to innovative and responsive customer support.
Orange will demonstrate e.l.m. leblanc’s innovative predictive
maintenance platform at the Microsoft Experience in Paris on 3-4
October 2017 and IoT Solutions World Congress 2017 in Barcelona
from 3-5 October 2017.
Combined expertise delivers reliable, secure end-to-end IoT
projects
With Datavenue, Orange Business Services offers a
comprehensive set of solutions and services to securely manage IoT
projects and their integration with information systems,
providing:
- certified connected devices best suited
to the project’s use cases,
- connectivity solutions (cellular 3G and
4G, LoRa, LTE M…),
- a device and data management
platform,
- extensive expertise to manage the
project from conception to implementation: consulting, development,
data protection, integration, data analysis, maintenance, etc.
Datavenue boasts over 700 experts working on data and IoT
projects, 14 million connected devices managed by Orange, and the
capacity to handle over 160 million items of technical data per
minute.
With its Azure IoT Suite, Microsoft offers a powerful and
consistent software environment to facilitate setting up and
scaling large device and data management projects. In order to
accelerate the roll out of industrial projects, Azure IoT Suite
provides pre-packaged solutions and allows companies to swiftly get
familiar with the set-up and explore the most common IoT project
scenarios (e.g. remote monitoring, predictive maintenance,
connected factory).
The software environment provided by Microsoft will allow for
the use of advanced solutions such as Cortana Intelligence Suite
(advanced analytics and AI), Power BI (data visualization) and
Mobile Apps (Xamarin) to ensure a flawless mobile user
experience.
“This partnership between Orange and Microsoft is an important
step in our growth strategy targeting the IoT and data analytics
B2B market. By adding Azure IoT solutions to our Datavenue
portfolio, we provide our customers with powerful software with the
assurance that it will seamlessly integrate with Microsoft’s
business applications, an industry standard. This partnership is a
remarkable opportunity for us not just to expand our business, but
also to contribute more actively to the development of the IoT
market around the world,” said Beatrice Felder, executive vice
president, Customer Experience, IoT and Analytics, Orange Business
Services.
“Orange Business Services and Microsoft have been partners for
several years. We are excited to engage in this new collaboration
tackling the growing market of the Internet of Things. With a
partner such as Orange Business Services, we can offer a full
end-to-end solution, relying on Orange expertise in IoT
connectivity and particularly LoRa, and its proven know-how in
integrating IT projects surrounding connected sensors and devices,”
said Maziar Zolghadr, Microsoft EMEA Director of Strategic
Partnerships.
About Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services, the B2B branch of the Orange Group,
and its 21,000 employees, is focused on supporting the digital
transformation of multinational enterprises and French SMEs across
five continents. Orange Business Services is not only an
infrastructure operator, but also a technology integrator and a
value-added service provider. It offers companies digital solutions
that help foster collaboration within their teams (collaborative
workspaces and mobile workspaces), better serve their customers
(enriched customer relations and business innovation), and support
their projects (enriched connectivity, flexible IT and
cyberdefense). The integrated technologies that Orange Business
Services offer range from Software Defined Networks (SDN/NFV), Big
Data and IoT, to cloud computing, unified communications and
collaboration, as well as cybersecurity. Orange Business Services
customers include over 3,000 renowned multinational corporations at
an international level and over two million professionals,
companies and local communities in France.
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Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications
operators with annual sales of 40.9 billion euros in 2016 and 269
million customers worldwide at 30 June 2017. Orange is listed on
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