BlueMetal, An Insight Company

CEO: Ken Lamneck

BlueMetal, an Insight Enterprises company, most recently utilized Microsoft's Azure IoT platform to improve vaccine management for medical manufacturer Weka Health, helping more people be protected against diseases.

The 2016 Microsoft IoT Partner of the Year worked with a variety of vendors to pull the whole solution together – including Weka Health to create sensor-equipped refrigerators, and with Microsoft, which provided the Azure IoT software and the Microsoft Surface devices for end users for viewing and analyzing data.

"Sensors in the fridge talked to our software running on Raspberry Pi, a very small computer installed in the fridge and running Microsoft Azure – and tells [Azure] the current location, temperature, or whether anyone added a vaccine to the machine," Scott Jamison, VP of services at BlueMetal, told CRN. "We compile these telemetrics and send them to the cloud, and you can monitor the fridges from one dashboard."