[New IIC white paper] Data Protection Best Practices
· Cybersecurity

[New IIC white paper] Data Protection Best Practices

Protecting sensitive data created, stored and consumed by sensor-driven Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology and applications is one of the foundations of trustworthy IIoT systems. Broadly speaking, data protection measures resist internal and external disturbances and attacks on critical data and IIoT systems at large. These measures are applied over the entire lifecycle of […]

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A Digital Success Plan for IIoT 
· Connected Industry

A Digital Success Plan for IIoT 

It’s a rare industrial organization today unable to point to one or a dozen initiatives inside their enterprise with the moniker of  IIoT, Industry 4.0, smart product, or some other label under the general category of digital transformation. Yet according to McKinsey, 70% of these projects fail to deliver business value. Why? Most teams consist […]

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What Is a Smart City Platform?
· Smart Cities

What Is a Smart City Platform?

Cities are getting smarter. From the many small municipalities that have recently installed smart meters to measure electric power consumption, to the handful of large metropolises that have adopted a far-reaching and broad array of systems and technologies for all key functions, the world of smart cities is a huge challenge to navigate and understand. […]

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Gabrielle Epuran, Student Chief Editor
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Gabrielle Epuran, Student Chief Editor

Gabrielle Epuran is a senior at Magnificat High School and has been given the opportunity to act as Student Chief Editor at IIoT-World for her dedication to writing. She has self-published a novel, Crepuscular, and is working on publishing her latest book, Nighttown. As a member of the selection committee for the Cleveland International Film Festival, she […]

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IoT – The Future DNA of the Automobile Industry
· Connected Industry

IoT – The Future DNA of the Automobile Industry

The Internet of Things empowers digital transformations in tremendous ways and has already established a significant impact on different sectors, including retail, healthcare, construction, agriculture, and tech companies. IoT in the automobile industry plays a phenomenal role, in that it paves the way to a more sophisticated platform with impeccable inbuilt features. IoT in Various […]

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[Research] Securing Smart Factories in the Era of Industry 4.0
· Cybersecurity

[Research] Securing Smart Factories in the Era of Industry 4.0

Adopting Industry 4.0 means not only interconnecting IT and OT networks to build smart factories; it also means having shared responsibilities between IT administrators and OT engineers. These include accounting for assets such as equipment, underlying platforms, and protocols or services in use; assessing them for their criticality in the overall operations; and applying the […]

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Main Challenges of Implementing IoT Security Standards
· Cybersecurity

Main Challenges of Implementing IoT Security Standards

IoT, as we know it today, allows us to make our lives easier — but it is not 100% secure. It can be hard to understand why it’s so difficult to come up with a comprehensive cybersecurity standard for IoT. After all, if we can create this technology, we should be able to keep it […]

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· Connected Industry

IIC Launches the IIoT Maturity Assessment Explorer

The Industrial Internet Consortium ® (IIC™) today announced the IIoT Maturity Assessment, a web-based tool included in the IIC Resource Hub™ that enables users to better understand their enterprise IIoT maturity. The IIoT Maturity Assessment helps organizations become best-practice adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage […]

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Are Your Current Maintenance Practices Draining Profits?
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Are Your Current Maintenance Practices Draining Profits?

How Maintenance Excellence can reduce downtime, overall maintenance costs and worker stress while boosting plant efficiencyIn recent blog posts I’ve explored how Asset Performance can affect your plant’s economic return. With Asset Reliability as the first step in your action plan, the next thing to consider is Maintenance Excellence. To help explain the concept I […]

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Smart Cities are Made Smart by Planning and Strategy
· Smart Cities

Smart Cities are Made Smart by Planning and Strategy

Cities around the world are making huge investments in technology that will help them provide better services, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and operate in a way that leverages the power of IoT, artificial intelligence and 5G technologies. Put together, these investments are part of the story in delivering on the vision of “Smart Cities” – […]

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Jean Cabanes, Managing Director
· Our Contributors

Jean Cabanes, Managing Director

Jean is leading Accenture’s Industrial segment for Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Based in Paris, he is the Global Client Account Lead for Michelin and Schneider Electric. As a thought leader, Jean focuses on innovation and the creation of new business models from design through execution of large global transformational programs for Accenture’s clients, leveraging […]

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Cyril Perducat, EVP IoT and Digital Offers
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Cyril Perducat, EVP IoT and Digital Offers

Cyril is the global leader of IoT and Digital Offers responsible for Schneider Electric’s IoT Strategy and Execution. Cyril is focused on delivering new digitally enabled, connected offers that help customers be more efficient and sustainable. Previously, he was the Chief Technology and Chief Strategy Officer for the Industry Business. Cyril joined Schneider Electric in […]

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