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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Enabling intelligent logistics automation: home-grown Industrial IoT platform at Austrian Post

Lukas Alber

Faced with processing 230 million parcels, Austrian Post bypassed vendor lock-in to build a custom IIoT platform. See how they bridged OT and IT using MQTT, Kafka, and Databricks.

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#1 about 5 min

Addressing high parcel volume and labor shortages

Increasing automation and transparency solves challenges with fluctuating logistics volumes and constrained labor pools.

#2 about 5 min

Evaluating machine scalability and strategic ownership

Managing diverse shop floor equipment requires vendor-agnostic systems to ensure scalability, interoperability, and operational control.

#3 about 2 min

Building a homegrown industrial IoT nervous system

A custom integration layer drives IT and OT convergence by connecting physical machines to centralized data systems.

#4 about 3 min

Designing the technical architecture for IoT integration

Unifying machine signals through an MQTT broker enables both real-time streaming via Kafka and batch analytics via Databricks.

#5 about 5 min

Automating guided vehicles with bidirectional data streaming

Integrating buffer zone cameras with fleet management software orchestrates automated transport routes across mixed-vendor vehicles.

#6 about 2 min

Scaling the IoT platform and future automation goals

Transitioning to a scalable cloud infrastructure unlocks complex machine-to-machine coordination and broader organizational deployment.

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Core objectives for automated vehicle management systems

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7:14 min

Moving freight logistics into the digital age

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9:13 min

Tackling functional complexity with localized vehicle electronic architectures

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