Logistics IoT services development with a sensor toolkit in an experiential training environment

The more complex processes, the higher need for process transparency through high-quality real-time data. The steadily improvement of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies during the last years ensures this process transparency and the IoT vision of an interconnected world of objects is about to become reality. However, although these technologies allow real-time data collection, the potential of IoT technologies is not yet fully understood by all stakeholders. Furthermore, technology novices have difficulties participating in development processes and consequently prevent case-specific and relevant services from being described. This paper describes how an IoT toolkit can be used for collaborative service development. The toolkit incorporates the possibility of configuring IoT and `designing own algorithms´ without coding skills. This will allow IoT novices to understand sensor and actuator networks; consequently, needed sensors can be selected and individual algorithms can be defined based on individual associations.