"Connected Customisation" uses a multi-sensor system of LiDAR scanners and colour cameras to create a point cloud of the visitor, who can then view their coloured 3-D image from all sides on their mobile device. The visitors were also presented with a trade fair magazine personalised with a print of their own image.

"Cloud-based RFID Solution" demonstrates an astonishingly simple solution in which production resources are registered using RFID. This then facilitates powerful asset management in Neoception's – a Pepperl+Fuchs subsidiary – cloud system without the need for a PLC with corresponding programming.

The "Sensor Data in the Cloud" exhibit showed a production unit with IO-Link sensors and actuators that are integrated into Software AG's Cumulocity Cloud via a Dell gateway equipped with the corresponding Neoception software agent. The Cumulocity solution allows plant statuses to be centrally recorded and managed as well as compared across multiple plants.

Application scenarios involving sensors that work wirelessly in the Internet of Things were shown in "Internet of Sensors." These include, for example, fill levels of glass recycling containers in Smart Cities, the status of manual control valves for Smart Industry or facilities, as well as statuses of transport containers for Smart Logistics.

A willingness to take entrepreneurial risks, a pioneering spirit, and a firm belief in their own inventive powers – these were the assets that Walter Pepperl and Ludwig Fuchs started out with when they opened their Mannheim radio repair shop in 1945. Their invention of the proximity switch a few years later proved their strength. It was also the starting point in a successful history defined by close customer relationships as well as innovative automation technologies and procedures. Then as now, the focus is directed squarely on the individual requirements of each customer. Whether as a pioneer in electrical explosion protection, or as a leading innovator of highly efficient sensors – the close communication with customers is what allowed the company to become the leader in automation technology. The main objective is combining state-of-the-art technologies and comprehensive services to optimise customers´ processes and applications.