Core Team: Rudolf von Stokar, Country Manager Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Oliver Scheer, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft,

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1 Wirepas Innovation Project Intro Solution overview The solution simplifies displaying massive amount of sensor data collected for a parcel tracking service. Which parcel is at what time at what location? Which status have the parcels? All data collect with the help of Wirepas IoT technology. Key technologies used Power BI Embedded, Azure App Services Core Team: Rudolf von Stokar, Country Manager Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Oliver Scheer, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft, Customer profile Wirepas, Wirepas is focused on providing the most reliable, optimized and scalable device connectivity to its customers. With their help customers can digitalize their current business processes and innovate for new disruptive models. With Wirepas Connectivity there is no need for traditional repeaters, because every wireless device is a smart router of the network. The connected devices are the network easy as that. In nature, things are communicating making autonomous decisions based on the protocol that is optimized to fulfill the need as efficiently as possible nothing more, nothing less. This is also what Wirepas is all about. Wirepas has its headquarters in Tampere, Finland and offices in France, Germany, South Korea and the United States. Wirepas was established 2010 in Tampere, Finland. The company has its roots at Tampere University of Technology where a ten-year research project was conducted around the radio frequency mesh technology. Wirepas is a privately owned company. Its shareholders include founders, Inventure Investment Fund, management shareholders and private investors. Problem statement

2 The technology of Wirepas is collecting a wide variety of data by its connectivity service. Every wireless device build on Wirepas software technology, can collect and send a huge amount of data. This data is collected in several ways, in databases and files of the cusotmers. Visualizing this data is key to get an overview of current state of "things" tracked by the technology. The end user of our developed solution are the customer of Wirepas. They need an "interpretation" of the collected IoT data, to get overview and to make easier decisions. Solution, steps, and delivery Parts of the solutions are currently online here: 1. Acquiring the data The data collected by the Wirepas technology is collected in customer "storage". This can be files, databases, etc. A supporting customer gave us access to their data. This data has to be imported, and cleaned up. For the Proof-of-concept, we used Power BI directly. For the proof of concept, we imported the data from a csv file, which was exported from a customers database. In further versions we will connect directly to the database, with the Direct Query Feature, in the meantime, we use import. 2. Cleaning the data The data has a domain specific model. This has to be cleaned up, and converted to a human readable format. We did this by using Power Query. We gave sense to plain Ids, to enable readable values to the end consumer, like "1000" --> "Region South". 3. Designing the report using Power BI Desktop

3 After importing and cleaning the data of 1 million sensor data, we used Power BI to design dashboards which enables the customer to get overviews of all data, and enables him to drill down to one single parcel, and the parcel history. Some impressions of the dashboard.

4 4. Creating a Power BI Workspace

5 To create the Power BI Workspace in Azure, we used the powerbi-cli. Currently there is no UI available to create workspaces for Power BI in Azure, therefor we used the powerbi-cli Power BI CLI can be easly installed via npm: npm install powerbi-cli -g Creating a workspace is done by the following statement: powerbi create-workspace -c wirepasreports -k <key_to_powerbiembedded_in_azure> 5. Uploading PBIX-File To upload a Power BI Report to this Workspace you only need an additional command of powerbi-cli powerbi import -c wirepasreports -k <key_to_powerbiembedded_in_azure> -w <the_name_of_workspace> -f <the_filepath_to_the_thereport> -n Overview -o 6. Embed Power BI in Web App Power BI embedded enables developers to embedded reports in almost every kind of app. The easiest way is, embedding it into a nice website. To get a website, we used Azure Web App to host a simple Asp.Net MVC App based on a standard template for Power BI embedded ( Architecture diagram/s (required). Example below: One learning by Microsoft was the amount and type of data, which we structured and converted. Power Query is an awesome tool for ETL-Processes. Wirepas was positively suprised by the speed and friction free tooling, and uploading of Dashboards. Next Steps The running solution is the first project Azure Project using Power BI embedded. Wirepas is fascinated about Power BI embedded on Azure, and the easiness and speed of implementation.

6 We are already working on the next steps. Next steps are pushing the sensor data to Azure IoT Hub, and with the help of stream jobs to SQL Database and also for custom analyzing tools to blobstorage as well. Blobstorage is triggering Azure Functions to send messages to customers ("Your parcel has passed station xyz"). For Wirepas it was a proof for the Power of Microsoft Technologies, delivering IoT Data fast and easy to consumers. The first public presentation was at the Bosch Connected World. Conclusion For Wirepas it was a very smart and easy way to bring their IP to the cloud, in an easy and fast implementation. The whole project needed only 10 Hours of calls, consulting, and implementation. It is very easy to bring complex data to Power BI and convert it to easy data for faster descisions on the web. For the Bosch Connected World, it was an easy demonstration of complex data. Based on Azure and Power BI embedded. Opportunities going forward: After demonstrating the fast and easy process of creating and deploying dashboards to the Azure Cloud, the next steps are enabling real life data by connecting customers database directly to Power BI embedded, instead of importing data manual. The evaluation of the Azure IoT Hub is also on the roadmap, which could be used in different customer scenarios. Since the workshop and now, Wirepas already won several new customers, which are using Wirepas products and dashboards powered by Power BI embedded. CUSTOMER QUOTE We have used Power BI to reformat Millions of lines of sensor data for the usage in Azure. Handling Power BI was extremely easy, results are visible on the fly. Microsoft Azure immediately took this data for vistualization and we were able to analyze our data on anormalities right away. Rudolf von Stokar, Country Manager, Wirepas*