{"id":22202,"date":"2016-04-29T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=251262"},"modified":"2016-04-29T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:55:05","slug":"kimberly-clark-implements-iot-based-app-for-facilities-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/kimberly-clark-implements-iot-based-app-for-facilities-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly-Clark implements IoT-based app for facilities managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/04\/Internet-of-Things.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-248822 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/04\/Internet-of-Things-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iot isometric flowchart design banner\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Kimberly-Clark\u2019s professional business unit has announced the launch of a new Intelligent Restroom app that helps customer\u2019s better monitor and manage restrooms remotely.<\/p>\n<p>The app, which was built on IBM\u2019s IoT development platform, Bluemix, and hosted on the same company\u2019s cloud platform, combines IoT and cloud capabilities to allow facility manager\u2019s to receive data and alerts from various devices in restrooms, in an effort to improve efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe restroom and supplies management have always been important factors in facilities management, however, we now know they\u2019re critical to maintaining the business itself,\u201d said Bryan Semkuley, VP of Global Innovation at Kimberly-Clark Professional. \u201cWe wanted to help our clients reduce tenant churn, lower costs, and improve the customers\u2019 experience along the way. That\u2019s when we turned to innovations in cloud and IoT from IBM that can be operated from facilities managers\u2019 smartphones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team at Kimberly-Clark Professional claim initial tests of the app have helped customers reduce the amount of supplies used in the restroom by up to 20%, and the app is now available in North America, with plans to expand internationally over the course of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKimberly-Clark Professional products are used by one fourth of the world\u2019s population on a regular basis,\u201d said Rachel Reinitz, CTO for IBM\u2019s Bluemix Garage. \u201cIBM Cloud, from development platform through IoT, enabled them to develop and deploy the innovative Intelligent Restroom from the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly-Clark&rsquo;s professional business unit has announced the launch of a new Intelligent Restroom app that helps customer&rsquo;s better monitor and manage restrooms remotely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[799,4139,893,1909,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","category-ibm-bluemix","category-internet-of-things","category-iot","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22203,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202\/revisions\/22203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}