Opportunity Open Source Conference in Kanpur, India 2025
- Oliver Völckers
- Sep 8
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 9
Remote Presentation by Oliver Völckers at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, September 6, 2025
The Opportunity Open Source Conference (OOSC), is a premier event dedicated to foster innovation, collaboration, and learning in the open-source community. This gathering brings together developers, enthusiasts, industry experts, and academics to explore the latest trends, tools, and projects in open source.
Presentation by Oliver Völckers:
How we built a pump monitoring system for Deutsche Bahn with wireless sensors using Zephyr RTOS
In 2020, Deutsche Bahn's startup accelerator DB mindbox approached BeST Sensor GmbH with the task of developing a monitoring system to detect irregularities in waste water pumps for high-speed trains.
We developed a radically new sensor and signal processing system using RISC edge nodes based on Zephyr RTOS. Several challenges had to be overcome, such as a non-digital legacy infrastructure, harsh operating conditions, extreme quality requirements and a very limited budget. Despite these challenges, we were able to develop a wireless sensor system that permanently monitors the pumping process, automatically evaluates the quality of each process and wirelessly transmits the results to the customer. This system has now been in 24/7 operation for over three years.
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The event was supported by Canonical, sponsor of the Linux distribution Ubuntu.
