2011 SAP Demojam Ideas

These were my SAP TechEd (which includes Demojam) ideas for 2011:

  • iPad app which uses its indoor location and mapping, uses the camera and an augmented reality overlay to tag items inside a warehouse with live tags based on a picklist. As each item is marked as picked, the next line item shows up using a “radar” style map and informs the warehouse driver where they should navigate next. 
    • Develop it using multiple cheap wifi routers? using signal strength? and a mesh like network
    SAP ERP integration with a Segway for material handling. Show camera on front showing an augmented view of the warehouse with a 3D overlay.

How secure is your enterprise data?

A couple of months ago, we had an emergency meeting with our process control engineers concerned by the announcement of the “Stuxnet” virus, which targeted Siemens PLC’s. For those of you who don’t know what a PLC is, it’s essentially a PC used in industrial operations to control machinery on a production line, AC Systems, elevators and even used in amusement park rides, to name a few. Unlike a regular PC with a couple inputs (mouse/keyboard etc.) and outputs (display), generally PLC’s have hundreds of real-time input and output possibilities and often control physical objects like motors, actuators, hydraulics and solenoids. The target of the virus has not been confirmed, but after much speculation it was thought that it was targeting Irans nuclear power program. In a nut shell this virus has the ability to change process parameters and possibly cause major havoc. (Imagine overriding the temperature cut off controls in a reactor?).  read more

About Me

This was my first introduction post to the SAP Community back in 2010. It was a great relationship and I met a ton of wonderful folks in the enterprise space. In terms of opportunity it was probably the equivalent of Github in more recent times.

So, since it’s my first blog here on SDN I decided that I would share some of my background and where I come from, where I am, and, where I hope to be some day. 

Lets start at the beginning, I was born in a small town called East London, South Africa in 1980, attended a couple local schools and found my interest for computers digging through left over PC components at my fathers business. Since putting the components together did not quite represent Jonny from the movie “Short Circuit”, my interested turned to software programming at the tender age of 13, which happened accidentally. In my pursuit for i386 memory I purchased a copy of “Computer Shopper” magazine which included Visual Basic 3.0 – along with a few tutorials. From there it was a downward spiral. read more