# Why is the Integration of CMMS and IoT the Future?

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is attracting many eyeballs worldwide. Businesses are exploring numerous opportunities to implement IoT within their facilities successfully. You can integrate it with CMMS and enjoy a plethora of advantages. Let’s learn more about it.

What is IoT?

IoT is based on the theory of getting your daily devices connect to the internet, enabling them to communicate with each other and with other systems. It also helps in collecting and sharing data. IoT can revolutionize how we live and work, making our environments smarter, more efficient, and more responsive to our needs. This can include something as simple as an on-off switch, like light switches, thermostats, water meters, etc. IoT can form relationships between people-people, things-things, and people-things.

With the aid of modern industrial technology, you can enable your facility to make intelligent operating decisions as it can establish connectivity to all of its assets regardless of their make, model, or location. You can allow for more sensors and data points with a fully connected wireless infrastructure to offer a safer environment, cost savings, and increased monitoring and automation.

Impact of IoT

IoT will be a significant part of our everyday lives in the near future. Consider this example: You are rushing to a meeting and don’t know which route will take you the fastest. Your car will access the roads to determine the best route with the least possible traffic. It could even access your calendar/contacts and text the attendees in case you run late due to traffic or an unexpected delay. Apart from that, you can adjust the temperature of your office at the end of the day to five to ten degrees higher to save on energy costs.

In short, anything that can be connected will be connected to the internet and with each other. With the technology becoming more powerful and affordable, you will see an explosion of IoT devices in the market.

IoT and CMMS: How Does It Work

You can set a threshold in the maintenance management software system and monitor the data from the IoT devices in real-time. This helps in avoiding failures. Most [modern CMMS software systems](https://www.nexgenam.com/solutions-and-services/cmms/) can pull the data being streamed to the cloud and create notifications and alerts to address any issue, reducing and eliminating the need to perform older methods of preventive maintenance.

Old methods included weekly equipment inspections and checking if the gearbox needed an oil change, etc. It was expensive, inefficient, and time-consuming. Integrating IoT and asset management software allows you to look beyond simple data collection and gain insights to develop better maintenance routines.

How Can IoT Benefit Maintenance Management?

1. Saves Cost

One of the first benefits of integrating IoT with maintenance management is the cost-cutting it brings along. It helps perform interventions in machines and tools only when absolutely needed, which automatically cuts the costs required to get labor and parts for replacement.

2. Automates Scheduling for Maintenance

Based on the equipment's usage data and performance, the AI algorithms in IoT can help you maintain an automated schedule for equipment maintenance. This allows you to save your maintenance teams the hassle of remembering maintenance. Also, this makes sure the machines are updated; hence, this makes the equipment last longer.

3. Improves Asset Management

With the integration of IoT in maintenance management, the inclusion of AI can help your maintenance teams manage and keep track of the assets more effectively. This helps in minimizes the chances of stealing or losing any equipment.

The inclusion of IoT in CMMS has helped the maintenance teams to efficiently [maintenance management](https://www.techimply.com/blog/how-to-optimize-your-operational-efficiency-using-comprehensive-asset-management-software). It helps make the equipment maintenance process run smoothly and allows you to take more control of your operations. Streamlining the process lets you get real-time insights, improve your asset management process, and your save time and cost.

Author Bio: Lindsey Walker is the marketing manager for NEXGEN Asset Management. She excels at business development, project management and asset management. Her passion for writing allows her to share her knowledge on asset management, geographic information systems (GIS), software implementation, training curriculum development and similar topics.