Mercedes-Benz and Nexmachina accelerate digital transformation in the shopfloor via Internet of Things

In Vitoria, Spain, the facility management of Mercedes-Benz España, S.A.U. worked together with the startup Nexmachina on a joint project on digital transformation. Nexmachina is a pure IoT startup, specializing in wireless technologies. Their focus lies on LORA WAN (Long Range Wide Area Network), designed to transmit small messages from machines, objects or processes in use. In their joint pilot project at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, they focused on the smart monitoring of hundreds of fluid meters scattered throughout the two assembly plants. With this project, they wanted to prove that IoT technology and LORA WAN in particular, provide an efficient and economical solution to digitize fluid meters and other assets in the plants.