Fujitsu RunMyProcess demonstrates how it is helping start-ups like HOP Ubiquitous (HOPU) to turn concepts into a digital business, quickly and with low total cost of ownership.
Providing a cloud platform for the rapid implementation and testing of innovations, both for Fujitsu and for its customers around the world, it is a key enabler to the company’s vision of a Human Centric Intelligent Society. Fujitsu RunMyProcess delivers the capabilities required to build connected digital systems spanning cloud, on-premise and mobile environments.
The Internet of Things (IoT) brings huge growth potential to the global economy. Important new standards are enabling things to communicate more effectively with each other.
Headquartered in Murcia in Spain, HOPU is a start-up specialising in wearable and sensor-based technologies. Through its contributions to and support for flagship standards – such as OMA, IPv6 and CoAP – it is a leading player in the definition of management, inter-operability and security standards for the emerging IoT and its wider connection to other web- and cloud-based services.
Using this expertise, HOPU is working to accelerate the emergence of new cross industry value models such as the emerging industrial Internet also called Industry 4.0.
Having won the Best Demonstration Award at the 4th International Conference on The Internet of Things recently, it showcases how cloud computing and the IoT can be brought together to enable new forms of social infrastructure
that react to people’s needs in real time. The company has demonstrated how lives can be saved by combining ubiquitous sensing via personal sensors and a human-centric ICT system.
In this case, the Fujitsu RunMyProcess platform was configured to the specialized needs of the scenario in just five days. Previously, getting such a solution up and running would have taken months, if not years.
The demonstration describes two scenarios. A traffic accident has happened in a busy city during rush hour. A cyclist is badly injured. He urgently needs emergency treatment. In today’s world, time delays are caused by the late arrival of the ambulance, traffic jams and no staff available at the hospital on arrival. Vital minutes, which can mean the difference between life and death, are lost.
In a hyper-connected world – using tiny and wireless smart objects from HOPU connected by the Fujitsu RunMyProcess platform to each other and the cloud – the cyclist’s experience would be different.
The motion sensor in his wearable device detects the impact. It provides his location and sends his changing heart rate to a human-centric ICT system, which raises the alarm. Before a passer-by can telephone for help, the control centre is already aware of the emergency and has dispatched an ambulance.
The paramedics arrive and stabilise the cyclist. The system recognises traffic is gridlocked around the nearest hospital and that the next nearest has a shortage of medical staff. The third hospital, however, is free from traffic and with staff available immediately. The system plots the best route through the traffic, estimating the cyclist will get access to emergency much faster, saving critical time and perhaps saving his life.
The Fujitsu RunMyProcess cloud platform removes the barriers to delivering innovative new approaches like these. Firstly, seamless mobility via device- and location-independent business applications unifies the digital experience.
This is especially important in scenarios where data is drawn from a large number of different component parts across the supply chain. In the scenario described there are four major components – emergency services, traffic operations, ambulance and hospital.
Secondly, end-to-end digitisation and integration via APIs and 2,500+ connections across the digital supply chain allow new components to be added sequentially. Furthermore, faster outcomes and increased reliability via the agile, model-based business platform delivers digitisation at speed. Accelerated innovation via collaborative business tools enables start-ups to embed a digital culture as a basis for future innovations and success.
