“We have sensors, we have software and we have services,” said Struth. “That from our perspective is somehow unique at Bosch.”
Services and software can be hosted centrally and distributed via the cloud, but sensors obviously need to be at the point where you want to collect sensory data. When those sensors are attached to machines in a factory or a vehicle, power requirements are not really an issue. But what about sensors with no freely available power source? What if you want to set up a network of temperature sensors throughout a building, for example, or a motion sensor in a remote corner of an industrial space?