SUSTAINABILIT Y.

TRUST.
CREATIVIT Y.
Sony Network Communications Europe
INSPIRED TO BE BOLD
Sustainability, trust and creativity are the three
principles that will shape tomorrow’s world. They
inspire our daily decisions as well as our long-term
strategy. We all face climate change, economic
instability and compliance to improved regulations,
so let’s stand up for these principles together.

Through our proven network services, our

customers get the data insights they need to drive
these principles in their own businesses to make
more sustainable decisions, build trusted services
and solve problems creatively.

Sustainability Trust Creativity

Apply up-to-the-minute data to Meet the needs of an increasingly Reimagine the future of your
optimise resource use, eliminate complex and connected world business and solve problems
waste and fuel your sustainability using proven solutions that create creatively using data to unlock new
transformation. confidence in your business ways of thinking.
REL I A BL E DATA .
CONFIDEN T
DECISIONS .
The arrival of 5G has opened up new opportunities in
all industry segments. With the ability to gather and
visualise business data in real-time, you no longer have
to guess what’s going on in your daily operations.

Instead, you can make fully informed, data-driven

decisions that help you work more smoothly, reduce
waste and increase customer satisfaction.

At the same time, connected services make life simpler

for your end users, reducing the time and effort
required for them to perform essential everyday tasks.

Worth exploring? Read on… Sony’s solutions make

it easy for you and your
users to take advantage
of connectivity, starting
today
 OUR CONNECTED

INNOVATION SOLUTIONS DELIVER:

FOR YOU
Insights from data
Gain the understanding you need to
develop more competitive services, with
solutions that turn raw sensor data into
actionable insights. Put your sensor data to
Sony has been a pioneer in developing end-to-end work and create a collaborative ecosystem
secure, user-friendly connected devices for decades, of connected devices.
combining award-winning design with cutting
edge technology.
Scalability
If you want to start small and scale up,
Based on connected sensors, our latest network
our infrastructure is fully flexible and can
solutions provide streams of real-time data that are
be expanded as your business grows. We
transformed into insights about your business and support you with modular solutions that
your customers. can easily grow apace with your needs.

Trust
Thanks to Sony’s root-of-trust platform,
you have full and exclusive ownership of
the data generated and it’s always sent
end-to-end encrypted. This ensures privacy
for your end users and key competitive
advantages for your business.

Integration
Our solutions are designed to fit seamlessly
into your existing IT infrastructure. We use
open standards to make sure you get a
reliable solution that can be developed,
delivered, and commissioned with
minimum effort and complexity.
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BUSINE SS
01
Save time, money and resources
Accelerate business performance by using smart,
connected solutions that not only make your
employees’ work life easier and more productive,
but also help you optimise workflows and minimise
With smart, connected services, gain resource waste.
data insights that allow your business to
achieve more. Work smarter, use fewer
resources, create better services, identify
areas for improvement and more.

02
Increase customer satisfaction
Focus on offering what your customers really need
and want. Insights from user data will help you
understand what drives your customers behaviour,
so your products or services can be fine-tuned to
meet their needs.

03
Simplify life for users
Designed with Sony’s trademark simplicity and
elegance, our solutions are intuitive and easy to
use from day one. Business users enjoy clearly
presented data and analytics; end customers get
up and running with only minimal support.

04
Improve profitability
Access to data increases the profitability of your
business in two ways: it enables savings through
waste reduction and provides insights to improve
your existing offer or identify new revenue streams.
VA LUE FOR Act sustainably
This is rarely simple; rather about carefully weighing up
the facts. For example, when a critical machine part has to

SOCIE T Y be delivered within 24 hours to prevent a production stop,

the most sustainable thing to do is deliver it on time, even
if that means using airfreight. Acting sustainably is also
sometimes about what you don’t do. For example, when
Whether you’re looking to optimise office occupancy statistics highlight the underutilised
areas of your building, you might decide you don’t need
the use of office space, improve
to rent more space.
life quality for people with chronic
health conditions, minimise transport
emissions or ship food and medical Succeed long term
supplies safely, our network services Reliable data provides a solid a basis for your decisions,
support your ambitions… and add and a solid foundation upon which to build sustainable,
value to society at the same time. long-term success. Get a continuous flow of unfiltered
feedback which lets you adjust your products and services
to ensure that they are performing optimally.

Reduce waste
Real-time data makes it easy to spot the waste in your
operations – be it of people’s time and effort, or of
resources like transport fuel or space. By streamlining
workflows and cutting out waste, you can meet all the
‘triple bottom line’ criteria: profits, people and planet.
E V ERY THING
S TA RT S WIT H
V ISIBILIT Y
What you can see, you can improve. It’s a simple
and obvious idea. Yet so many businesses today
continue to operate in the dark, making decisions
based on guesswork or on information from
outdated tools and unreliable methods.

The good news is our connected services make

it not only possible but easy to gain full visibility
into your operations. They let you see and, with
the benefit of analytics, understand what’s going
on as events unfold.
mSAFET Y EXAMPLE OF USE CASES

mSafety is a solution for remote health and safety Remote, proactive care
monitoring that consists of connected wearables for a range of health
with global connectivity and a web interface. To put conditions
remote monitoring in reach for every business, there
are several ways to apply mSafety: choose from a
ready-made solution or create custom applications. Improve occupational
safety for hazardous jobs
and outdoor workers
The future of health and safety
An application on mSafety taps into the
power of digital biomarkers: objective data Decentralised clinical
about a person’s health and activity. With trials with a convenient
live insight into key digital biomarkers, a participant experience
service provider can help people stay safe
and healthy. And the possibilities don’t stop
there. Apply algorithms, communicate with
equipment, merge external data sources. All
this is possible with mSafety, and more.

An adaptable solution
If your service requires more features than
one of the ready-made solutions, it is easy
to expand or create new applications for
mSafety. Develop your applications in-
house using our SDK, or benefit from a
development consultancy from Sony. Once
in use, have unique, exclusive control of your
collected data and the service.
V ISILION Location
See where your cargo
Visilion is a solution for global and multimodal logistics or assets are around the
operations. It delivers real-time visibility of cargo or world, at any time.
assets through advanced trackers with a range of sensors,
a cloud service and a web platform. With Visilion, a
business can react to shipment disruptions instantly and Condition
optimise their logistics operations over time. View live changes in
temperature, humidity,
Cargo visibility shocks, tilts and light
exposure.
During global shipments with multiple modes
of transport, a lot can go wrong. A real-time
stream of data about the location and condition
of the cargo gives a business control. Intervene if Alerts
disruptions occur. Keep customers informed and Create alerts for a range
satisfied. Use long-term data to optimise shipping of deviations and
partners, routes and packaging. disruptions to intervene
instantly.
Asset utilisation
Logistics operations involve containers,
Analytics
equipment, machinery and vehicles. By tracking
these assets, a business can understand their In the Visilion platform,
usage and minimise their downtime. Visibility analyse your data with
of logistics assets in real time gives a business tools, e.g. reports and
the data they need to streamline their asset heat maps.
management.
NIMWAY CREATE A SMART OFFICE

Get real time occupancy data

Nimway is a complete smart-office solution
consisting of an intuitive web or phone app,
digital floor plans and room panels – all Navigate the office with wayfinding
enabled by Sony’s patented world-class
indoor positioning and sensor technologies.
Nimway gives you everything you need Book a room or desk on the fly
to navigate the complexities of a rapidly
changing office landscape. Find available rooms in real time

Nimway for a flexible workforce

Easily locate colleagues
Since office attendance is no longer mandatory in
many companies, the battle is on to ‘magnetise’
the office. Nimway’s smart office solution supports ‘Time-to-leave’ notifications for meetings
this ambition through features like office access,
desk-booking and find-a-colleague. This helps
employees get the most out of their time at the Report facility problems in the app
office and facilitates creative collaboration.

Nimway for facility managers

In today’s dynamic and frequently changing office
environment, access to reliable occupancy data and
space analytics is essential for facility managers.
Nimway analytics provides both real-time usage
data and information about longer term occupancy
trends. The insights derived from this data make
it possible to optimise the use of space, often
reducing rent and energy costs.
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Sony Network Communications Europe has
successfully scaled up several intelligent,
connected solutions for businesses across a
number of industries. By tapping into Sony’s
long heritage of innovation, these connected
solutions push the limits of what enterprise
technology can accomplish.

Looking ahead, we will continue to explore

new opportunities and business creation.
Sony Network Communications Europe
is committed to discovering new ways of
leveraging the power of connectivity to
inspire sustainability, trust and creativity in
business.
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