PTC ThingWorx has demonstrated its smart mountain bike, which utilizes a Raspberry Pi hooked up to sensors tracking wheel speed, suspension pressure, and angle of the steering wheel in order to produce a "digital twin" of the bicycle - an exact digital representation of the physical bike. Potential applications for this technology extend beyond the consumer knowing how fast he went on his ride, into the space of predicitve maintenance for example. PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann adds "The thing has a voice and it wants to be heard. The Internet of Things already has begun to let things speak. We want that same kind of capability with our bike."
PTC ThingWorx has demonstrated its smart mountain bike, which utilizes a Raspberry Pi hooked up to sensors tracking wheel speed, suspension pressure, and angle of the steering wheel in order to produce a "digital twin" of the bicycle - an exact digital representation of the physical bike. Potential applications for this technology extend beyond the consumer knowing how fast he went on his ride, into the space of predicitve maintenance for example. PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann adds "The thing has a voice and it wants to be heard. The Internet of Things already has begun to let things speak. The next step is to act on what they"re saying."