More than 15 years of experience in Pharmaceutical Engineering and Automation mainly focused on Turn-Key projects for Top Pharma Companies worldwide. With a Chemical Engineer background and an International MBA, my main tasks had been developed in Eastern Europe and South East Asia from engineering works to pharma sites construction & automation and validations. Leading […]
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Since Internet of Things technology started to gain mainstream traction, multiple platforms, solutions and strategies have been developed. At the moment there are more than 450 ‘platforms’ commercially available. Yet, realistically speaking, most of these have been designed for a very specific function on outdated technology and mostly down a vertical application path. Similarly, gateway […]
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Nico Steyn is a respected entrepreneur in technology in South Africa and with his team a leading innovator in the development of new technologies offered by the Internet of Things. Nico co-founded IoT.nxt in 2015 and serves as the company’s CEO. Prior to the establishment of IoT.nxt he was the Managing Director of a leading […]
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Over the past two decades, the global market for printed circuit boards has been shaped by the growth of and technological change in the electronics industry in general and, in particular, by end devices such as computers — from servers to desktops and notebooks — in addition to smartphones and tablets. According to estimates in […]
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MQTT, a light-weight IoT messaging protocol over TCP/IP, is designed for large-scale telemetry environments with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is limited. It operates as a producer-consumer paradigm, where many “Publishers” (for example, sensors) send out messages to a small set of “Subscribers” (for example, client applications), which […]
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Since the inception of the Internet of Things (IoT), a slew of connected products is emerging resulting in a drastic change in the way consumers interact with home appliances, cars, electronics, and other types of equipment. Particularly, IIoT Applications have significantly affected industrial implications and as such are being identified in the range of the […]
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IIoT or Industrial Internet of Things solutions, built on a cloud-based infrastructure, create opportunities for new business models and value delivery methods. While many IIoT solutions are usually sold as a “product”, many vendors are now beginning to offer IIoT “as-a-service”. Take the example of a sensor-based system that detects machine wear and proactively alerts […]
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Manufacturers are increasingly turning to automation to solve their materials handling challenges. But as many are realizing, not all self-driving industrial vehicle companies are alike. The various robotic solutions on the market have vastly different degrees of flexibility, scalability and infrastructure requirements. Before investing in automation, be sure to ask your automated guided vehicle (AGV) […]
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Given the hype about IIoT, the ARC Advisory Group asks if it is really time to focus on the edge. The promise of edge computing in industrial environments means getting the right device data in near real-time to drive better decisions, and maybe even control industrial processes. For this to work, it means that the […]
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I’ve been writing about OT cybersecurity for a while and, although a consistent part of the message is that the overall level of risk is high and rising, some positive developments should be acknowledged. In particular, the past couple of years has seen increasing awareness of the issues and growing attention from business leaders. This […]
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While wireless has been a part of networking for more than a decade, the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) will make significant changes in the way network architectures end up designed. Nowhere will those changes be more immediate or far-reaching than in the ways wireless systems are used in IIoT, so we need to follow IT/OT network […]
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