--- title: 'Video aEYPbuwxJA4' source: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEYPbuwxJA4' video_id: 'aEYPbuwxJA4' date: 2026-07-02 duration_sec: 624 --- # Video aEYPbuwxJA4 > Source: [Video aEYPbuwxJA4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEYPbuwxJA4) ## Summary The presentation introduces Siemens MindSphere, an IoT operating system that connects machines to the digital world, enabling predictive maintenance and data-driven business value. The speaker emphasizes the first step: connecting physical assets to the cloud using hardware or software solutions. ### Key Points - **Smartphones as a metaphor for connectivity** [00:00] — Humans are nodes in a network via smartphones; machines should similarly be connected to become smarter and more predictable. - **MindSphere IoT operating system overview** [02:59] — Three layers: MindConnect (southbound) for data collection, MindSphere Cloud for hosting, and MindApps (northbound) for applications. - **MindServices for customer support** [04:38] — MindServices offers training, workshops, consulting, and plant security to guide customers through digitalization step by step. - **First step: connect real things to digital world** [05:50] — All advanced technologies (AI, ML) need data; connectivity is the foundation. Siemens provides hardware (nano box, IoT box) and software (MindConnect function block, MindConnect Leap C library). - **App development on MindSphere** [08:15] — After connectivity, customers can develop apps with front-end and back-end services using MindSphere Academy and consulting. ### Conclusion MindSphere enables digital transformation by connecting machines, transforming data into knowledge, and driving business success. The speaker invites the audience to join the MindSphere ecosystem. ## Transcript So, welcome ladies and gentlemen. It's one o'clock afternoon and it's lunchtime. I hope you enjoyed your lunch and I hope you enjoy also my presentation, the best presentation today, for the one of the best presentations today. So, ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure and the honor to present you this. What is this? iPhone! Hi, I'm not Steve Jobs. Why I have a present iPhone here. What is this in my hand? I have one, I'm sure you have one too. Why do you need this device? Sorry? Media? Communicating, communication, yes. I would say, with this smartphone in my hand, I am connected. This is exactly my connection to the Internet. With this in my hand, I, or you as human beings, we are just nodes in this huge network. I'm okay with that. It's okay for me because I'm kind of smarter or more intelligent with this smartphone. I have a lot of apps on my smartphone and I can do everything with my smartphone, with my connection to internet. And I'm kind of more predictable on the internet. At least when I buy something online, my behavior is pretty predictable for Google and Amazon. So, the same thing, we want to do the same thing with our machines, with our assets. The machines, they have been serving us so long and working so hard for us since the beginning of industrialization. But they are kind of lonely and offline We want to connect them We want to make them smarter make them more intelligent and make them more predictable we want to know the problem before the problem occurs and we want to sell the customer for that and service before they even know they need the product and service but how the answer is Siemens Mindfair, the Siemens IoT operating system. It's an open ecosystem and I think most of you are already familiar with this picture. So basically we have three layers in this Mindfair IoT operating system. We have the MindConnect layer, or sometimes we call it SouthBound, because it's on the south. And with the MindConnect element, we connect our machine, we connect our assets, and collect data and upload data to the MindFact Cloud in the middle. And here in the MindFact Cloud, we host the data. in the north in the north front we have the mind app we have the application once you have the data within mindfair you can you can do something meaningful with your data you can extract business value with your data so this is our mindfair IoT operating system so now your question might be I want to get started with Mind Fair. I want to connect my machine. I want to develop something on Mind Fair. But how? You feel uncertain because this is a new world for you. You feel uncertain. You feel complex. You feel ambiguous. Or you feel lonely. But you are not lonely because we have the man services for you what is man services that's me not only me man services is our entire service team we as my service team we provide you the service we provide you the training We provide you the workshop the consulting service and we work together with you and we start this journey to digitalization We start this journey to IoT solutions step by step But, what is the first step? The first step is to connect the real thing to the digital world. Today, you hear a lot of fancy words like artificial intelligence, like deep learning, like machine learning or smart data, but everything or all this new technology, all this new concept, they have something in common. They need data. They need huge amount of data. So, the first step is to connect the real thing to the digital world. And Siemens has the answer of the solution for that. This is the current available solution to connect your assets to ManShare. We have the hardware solution without odds. We have the nano box and the IoT box. And if you have a look around, you will see a lot of box here. These are our hardware solution to connect your machine and connect your assets to ManShare. If you go down there, you can see a lot of blue box with the text on it, connected with Mancare. And actually, they are using our hardware solution. They are using one of these box to connect their machine with Mancare and upload the data to Mancare. And in addition to this hardware solution, we have also the software solution, the MaxConnect It's a function block, it's a library. You can embed this library in the standard SIEMENS controller. And yeah, this is an advantage compared with human view, because you cannot embed a software into your human body, not yet. But you can embed a software into the controller, into the machine. And we have also another software solution, the MyConnect Leap. It's a C library, and that's my secret weapon, because it's the most powerful and the most flexible solution to connect your device. It a C library that means you can develop a C program calling this library connecting your program to Mindfair send data Manfair and you can embed this C program into your device as long as the device support C Okay so this is the first step to connect your real thing to connect your machines with the Manfair, and the next step, once you have have the data in Mindfair, you want to develop the app and you want to know how. First, how to connect the things with Mindfair. Second, how to develop the app, the application. How can I access the data on Mindfair? How can I develop a nice user interface, a nice front-end? And how can I develop a back-end service to analyze my data? So, and that's why we are here this is the overview of our services we have the mindfair attending the master attorney is our training team we provide all kinds of training from the connectivity to the development to the front front end development and back end development and we have the master consulting service So, it is exactly the same as our academy. We provide the consulting service from the connectivity to the app development. And we have also the plant security services to ensure the secure data communication and data transfer. And together, we are the mindfair enablement. We enable the customer. No, we work with the customer together we enable the digital transformation, we enable the industry 4.0. And that is our goal as MIND service. We are the service throughout the whole customer journey. Together with the customer we answer the question how to connect real things to the digital world and together with the customer we answer the question how to transform data into knowledge and knowledge into business success. So now it's your opportunity, ladies and gentlemen, join this flourishing Man's Fair ecosystem. Make it bigger, make it flourish and make the future happen here. And make Germany great again. Thank you.