S2P

How mo­bi­le de­vices can be in­te­gra­ted in­to ope­ra­tio­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses

Project S2P (System to Process): Universal infrastructure for the integration of context-sensitive systems into business processes

The S2P project was based on the SatNaviServ project at the FHDW and combined two IT trends in a new way. On the one hand, mobile and embedded systems are equipped with high computing power, a large number of sensors for measuring environmental variables and the ability to interact. In most cases, they are also networked with other systems and often allow software to be loaded dynamically. This remarkable performance has hardly been used to date. In particular, these devices have hardly been integrated into company processes. The focus was therefore on the question of how mobile and thus context-dependent systems such as cell phones, PDAs, but also agricultural or construction machinery can be integrated into business processes in a largely automated manner. With this idea, the FHDW was able to prevail in the PreSeed competition organized by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 in a high-class field and was awarded funding of 275,000 euros for a period of two years.

As a result of the project, mobile systems were enabled to identify and execute suitable processes based on environmental information. One example is a combine harvester that automatically recognizes and executes the appropriate operational processes on a farm depending on the location and weather. Manual intervention is no longer necessary. Another use case is the optimal, situation- and location-dependent integration of field staff into a company’s business and service processes.