Azure IoT and HoloLens Pilot: Sensor Readings in Mixed Reality at a Logistics Site

Context

A logistics enterprise stored goods that required different climate regimes in different parts of its facility. Humidity and temperature had to be watched zone by zone.

My role

I was project manager and product owner of the pilot, which ran at the real site.

What we built

• A HoloLens application. Built in Unity: walking through the facility, the user sees in the headset the humidity and temperature readings from sensors in different locations.
• An Azure back end. Azure IoT Hub, Azure Digital Twins, Azure Spatial Anchors and Blob and Table Storage.
• Split of work. The plant's representatives installed the sensors; our team integrated them into the system.

Result

The pilot was judged successful. It did not grow beyond the pilot for business reasons, not technical ones: the client considered HoloLens too expensive and fragile for everyday use, and had no budget for a follow-up pilot on other devices.