The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming industries by generating vast amounts of data from connected devices and sensors. However, extracting meaningful insights from this data requires sophisticated tools capable of handling real-time streams, diverse data types, and large volumes. SAP Data Intelligence emerges as a powerful platform that enables organizations to integrate, process, and analyze IoT data seamlessly within their enterprise data landscape.
This article explores how SAP Data Intelligence facilitates the integration of IoT data to drive smarter, data-driven business processes.
IoT ecosystems produce data that is:
Traditional data processing platforms often struggle to ingest, manage, and analyze IoT data efficiently. Integration with enterprise systems and data governance add further complexity.
SAP Data Intelligence offers a unified platform that connects IoT data with enterprise data assets, enabling end-to-end orchestration from data ingestion to analytics:
SAP Data Intelligence supports seamless connection to popular IoT platforms and protocols, such as:
Using its visual pipeline modeler, SAP Data Intelligence enables the design of complex workflows that ingest IoT data, perform cleansing, filtering, aggregation, and transformation to prepare data for analysis.
The platform supports both streaming and batch processing, allowing organizations to handle time-sensitive event data and historical data efficiently.
SAP Data Intelligence allows embedding AI/ML models into pipelines for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and operational optimization based on IoT sensor data.
Metadata management and data governance ensure that IoT data remains trustworthy, compliant, and discoverable across the enterprise.
SAP Data Intelligence operates across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, accommodating the distributed nature of IoT infrastructures.
A manufacturing company leverages SAP Data Intelligence to collect sensor data from factory equipment via MQTT. The data pipeline filters and aggregates sensor readings in real time, triggering ML-based predictive maintenance alerts that reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance costs.
Integrating IoT data into enterprise data ecosystems is vital for unlocking the full potential of connected devices. SAP Data Intelligence provides a scalable, flexible, and secure platform to ingest, process, and analyze IoT data alongside business data, empowering organizations to transform operations and innovate with confidence.