Antonio Lugara, Big Data, Analytics & Industrial IoT Pre-Sales Engineer
· Our Contributors

Antonio Lugara, Big Data, Analytics & Industrial IoT Pre-Sales Engineer

Antonio Lugara is a civil engineer with specialization on transportation and logistics. He took an additional master degree in management and finance. Since adolescence, he developed the passions for the Information Technology and the Transportation sector, passions that influenced his academic studies and his working career according to a cross-fertilization path between the two worlds, […]

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Options to monitor water and fluids with Industrial IoT sensor telemetry
· Connected Industry

Options to monitor water and fluids with Industrial IoT sensor telemetry

IIoT or Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) is everywhere. It’s across all industries, from high tech transport, to natural resources and governments. IIoT software and hardware is deployed for numerous, varying applications, and it’s critical to understand just what the customer needs. Especially since the customer can’t always articulate exactly what the remote monitoring and sensor […]

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The Overwhelming World of Smart Cities and Cyber-Kinetic Threats
· Smart Cities

The Overwhelming World of Smart Cities and Cyber-Kinetic Threats

For most people around the world, cities are central to our lives and security. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and that percentage is expected to grow dramatically over the coming decades. Along with this influx into cities, though, come many challenges. Increases in energy consumption strain remaining resources. Increasing […]

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Scrum – an Agile Approach to Digital Transformation
· Digital Disruption

Scrum – an Agile Approach to Digital Transformation

In 500BC the Chinese general and military strategist Sun Tzu taught his commanders that quickness is the essence of war, and agility the hinge of battle. Sun Tzu’s wisdom 0f 2500 years ago is uniquely appropriate to us today as the fourth Industrial Revolution continues to unfold.  Above all, digital transformation is a culture change. […]

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Augmented Reality in the Transportation and Logistics Sector: Part 5
· Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality in the Transportation and Logistics Sector: Part 5

In this fifth and final part of our five-part Augmented Reality for Transportation and Logistics series, we’ll look at the kinds of interaction technologies that can help make an AR implementation successful. We’ll also explore the importance of getting and using the data you get from your AR solution to iterate and improve on the […]

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The new rise of time-series databases
· Connected Industry

The new rise of time-series databases

Time-series data storage and management has long been an interesting—if quiet—market category. It’s been a multibillion-dollar business for years and a mainstay in process-manufacturing plants since the 1980s. But recently, the category has been getting another look from investors and companies large and small. Why? For starters, time-series data volumes are huge: way back in 2010 […]

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Solid State Batteries – The Smartest Link for Industry 4.0
· Connected Industry

Solid State Batteries – The Smartest Link for Industry 4.0

With Industry 4.0, the manufacturing world is embracing the very significant efficiencies and cost benefits to be gained through sensing, collecting and analysing data through many disparate sensors out in the field.  The advantages are clear: adopting IoT brings about a more connected ecosystem with data gathered every second of the day or night by […]

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Denis Pasero, Manager
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Denis Pasero, Manager

Denis Pasero joined Ilika Technologies in 2008, as a scientist specializing in battery technology, to manage commercial lithium ion projects. He became part of the Ilika team to apply his strong academic knowledge to commercial applications and saw the potential to be part of the development and success story of an enterprising smaller company with […]

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Michael Risse, Vice President
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Michael Risse, Vice President

Michael Risse’s focus is big data technologies and analytics: he has worked as a consultant, advisor, speaker, and is a founding partner at Seeq Corporation. Seeq’s products and services transform Industrial Process Data (IPD), the time series data generated by production assets and related context from business systems, into actionable intelligence. The result is faster […]

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Azure IoT vs AWS IoT – Read Before Building your Industrial IoT Platform
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Azure IoT vs AWS IoT – Read Before Building your Industrial IoT Platform

We have been building industrial IoT systems since 2009. Back then, we worked with our customers to build almost every component needed at the edge and in the cloud. Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) weren’t yet offering much more than compute, storage, and networking services – not that it mattered much as most […]

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The Ultimate Guide to Smart Manufacturing
· Connected Industry

The Ultimate Guide to Smart Manufacturing

Cisco Live just wrapped last week, and we had a lot of great conversations with customers who are looking to evolve their manufacturing operations and achieve an “ultimate state.” Many of these conversations revolved around how to improve their factory network and reduce downtime, taking advantage of wireless in a plant and becoming more secure, […]

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Industrial Internet Consortium: Edge Computing in IIoT
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Industrial Internet Consortium: Edge Computing in IIoT

The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™) announced the publication of the IIC Introduction to Edge Computing in IIoT white paper. The paper provides practical guidance on edge computing, architectures and the building blocks necessary for edge computing implementations. The IIC is also planning to release an Edge Computing Technical Report that will contain in-depth technical information in the coming months. “Many companies are […]

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