About the company

Thule was founded in 1942 by the Thulin family in Hillerstorp, southern Sweden. Today they have 2400 employees worldwide and are global market leaders in a number of product categories, such as roof racks, roof boxes, bike racks used on a car, camera bags, as well as multisport- and bicycle trailers. Their business concept is to offer high-quality products with smart features and a sustainable design that make it easy for people across the globe to live an active life.

Challenges:

  • Thule wanted to find a way to better understand its environmental footprint related to its manufacturing process, and gain insights into how its manufacturing process operates in terms of energy consumption

  • The challenge was to integrate this data into their current IIoT architecture in AWS, visualize it and make the data available in the Office 365 applications. Use Power BI for historical analysis, visualization of data, and creating reports in various programs.

 

Our Solutions:

  • By configuring Edge Gateways to communicate with AWS IoT Core through MQTT, it was possible to send collected data from the sensors to AWS IoT Core through edge technology

  • Through asset representations in AWS IoT SiteWise, the data is modeled to digital representations of physical units

  • Parallelly we host a Linux-based EC2 in AWS, where we’ve installed and run Grafana, an AWS SiteWise plugin that makes it possible to easily integrate data from specifically AWS IoT SiteWise.

  • From IoT Core the data is also transferred to AWS IoT Analytics where it’s collected in a cache and every 12th hour pushed into S3 Bucket for cheaper storage

  • The data in AWS S3 is crawled with the help of AWS Glue to create a structured SQL table and representation of the unstructured data

  • AWS Athena uses Glue to create SQL calls on the data placed in AWS S3 and the data is then available to Power BI through a connector between Athena and Microsoft

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