Gallery: SAP's tech of the future
With stands in five of CeBIT's 19 halls, SAP showed off a number of displays demonstrating how SAP tech could be applied to various projects in the future, including to support crisis response centers in the event of a major incident, as shown here.
Using the scenario of a severe storm approaching Germany, the display shows how emergency services could gather and use information to help prepare for the severe weather, and to take appropriate decisions to mitigate its effects, such as deciding where to send help first when the storm has passed.
The display uses techniques and information developed by the German federal government-funded Soknos security research program to help improve the way cities respond to such incidents. The display shows how SAP technology could be used to integrate a number of different data sources and process flows into an urban management platform that organizations can use to deal with emergency situations.
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Here, SAP tech integrates and presents information on the event. This can be used to help teams respond to any incidents quickly and appropriately, showing which areas have been hardest hit, which access routes remain open and the geographical scale of the affected areas.
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The demo included a shelf of the parts required to build a lorry engine accompanied by a screen showing a graphic of which shelves the components can be found on.
The order picker uses the screen to see which containers they need to take parts from, with the shelves turning from pale green to dark green when the part has been picked.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel tried out the headset when she visited CeBIT on the first day of the show.
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Weighing technology can also be incorporated into the system to allow it to work out how many components have been taken out of each container by seeing if the containers have got lighter by a weight corresponding to the weight of the item.??As well as making sure the order picker takes the right number of parts, the tech can also help monitor stock levels.
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Photo credit: Tim Ferguson/silicon.com
The sat-nav display above is directing a driver to the nearest charging point for their electric vehicle as they enter a town.
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Shown above is a card which can be used by drivers to pay for charging their cars, by swiping it over a reader on the charging point.
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Photo credit: Tim Ferguson/silicon.com
Dr Joachim Schaper, VP for SAP Research, told silicon.com that researchers are also looking at how electric cars could form part of a smart electricity grid. For example, if a car is plugged into the power grid at a time of high demand for energy, the electricity stored in the car could be fed back into the grid, before being replenished when demand goes down again.
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Photo credit: Tim Ferguson/silicon.com
By scanning a code over a reader at one of SAP's stands, users were able to call up more information about SAP software.??Photo credit: Tim Ferguson/silicon.com
Once scanned, the code brings up the information stored on it on an adjacent screen.
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Skullcandy staged a 'silent disco' in which a DJ plays music that can only be heard through headphones. Visitors to the Skullcandy display - complete with glitter ball - could pull down the headsets from above and listen to whatever the DJ was spinning.
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