open source Archives - Kai Waehner

Augmented Reality AR VR and Apache Kafka with ARKit Unity Unreal Engine

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Augmented Reality Demo with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
23. February 2021

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) get traction across industries far beyond gaming – including retail, manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare. This blog post explores a retail demo that integrates a cutting-edge AR mobile shopping experience with the backend systems via the event streaming platform Apache Kafka.

Real-Time Locating : Tracking System (RTLS) with Apache Kafka and Event Streaming

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Real Time Locating System (RTLS) with Apache Kafka for Transportation and Logistics

ByKai Waehner
7. January 2021

Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) enables identifying and tracking the location of assets or people in real-time. This blog post explores the use cases for RTLS, the challenges of existing implementations, and an open, scalable RTLS architecture based on Apache Kafka.

Apache Kafka Hard vs Soft Real Time for Industrial IoT Robots and Connected Vehicles

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Apache Kafka is NOT Hard Real Time BUT Used Everywhere in Automotive and Industrial IoT

ByKai Waehner
4. January 2021

Apache Kafka is NOT hard real-time in Industrial IoT or vehicles (such as autonomous cars) but integrates the OT/IT world for near real-time data correlation and analytics in hybrid architectures across factories at the edge, multiple clouds, and over countries.

Supply Chain Optimization with Apache Kafka and SCM

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Apache Kafka for Supply Chain Management (SCM) Optimization

ByKai Waehner
15. December 2020

Supply Chain optimization leveraging Event Streaming with Apache Kafka. See real-world use cases and architectures from Walmart, BMW, Porsche, and other enterprises to improve the Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes. Automation, robustness, flexibility, real-time, decoupling, data integration, and hybrid deployments…