DIGITAL HEALTH Erik Brenneis
DIGITAL HEALTH Erik Brenneis
TITLE : IOT DIRECTOR AT VODAFONE COMPANY : VODAFONE INDUSTRY : IOT LOCATION : UNITED KINGDOM
Monitoring the whereabouts of the doses , along with ancillary items such as syringes , is also crucial . Brenneis explains that in lowerincome countries , sometimes vaccines are delivered without sufficient equipment to safely use them . Vodafone has built a system to tackle this in South Africa and neighbouring countries called mVacciNation . The system " acquires data regarding the stock levels in various locations like hospitals or doctor ' s practices . Doctors or logistics workers can go into the storage rooms and use their phones to scan barcodes , and the phones then transmit this data to the mVacciNation platform , so it knows how many syringes are on display , how many vaccines there are , and how much other equipment there is ."
Brenneis spent the first part of his career working for large engineering companies in his native Germany . He began working in the IoT space in its very early days when it was called M2M (" machine to machine ").
After a move to the US , he became Head of Sales for Siemens Business , the division responsible for selling M2M communication devices .
Several years later , when Vodafone was looking for someone to develop their IoT business , they found Brenneis , and he joined the British multinational as Director of IoT in 2009 . " We built the business from scratch ", he says . " We created a software platform and went out to win as many customers as possible . Since Vodafone is by far the most international telecommunications operator globally , we were able to win customers around the world and become a market leader over the course of three or four years .
" Since then , we ' ve expanded that position and have become focused on specific market segments such as automotive , energy and healthcare . We ' ve grown from a team of six people to roughly 1400 today . It ' s been a really fun ride ."
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