There is a ton of noise about AI for industry today. A quick search on Google for “Artificial Intelligence” returned 82M results and almost 4M news stories. Bloomberg reported in June that mentions of AI in earnings transcripts has risen from less than 60 in 2016 to over 250 in just Q1 of this year! […]
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Todd Hay is the Chief Operating Office for Ople, Inc. Todd has spent over 25 years delivering high-impact platforms and products across enterprise and consumer products. A geek with a MBA, Todd has been witness to a number of the technology revolutions – from Desktop computing in the ’90s with Lotus and IBM, Web-Services at […]
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Technology and business professionals are assaulted with new buzzwords daily. Figuring out what they mean in day-to-day work is more challenging. Nowhere is this more confusing as in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, where the term “digital transformation” is often linked to IoT initiatives. What’s real and what’s not? How far away is digital […]
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The industrial Internet is about connecting machines with people and services. It is about harnessing big data, analyzing that data and turning it into actionable information. It is about optimizing the plant and production process and about making equipment and service smarter. And, it is about improving collaboration to enhance the expertise of the people […]
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Marco Sanguineti is the Global Technology Manager for ABB’s Power Generation & Water business unit since 2015. Marco has a Master’s degree in Electronic and ICT Engineering. He joined ABB in 1987 and since then has held several positions in R&D and Product Management for distributed control systems.
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In 1990, John Romkey connected the first ‘thing’ to the internet, a Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster. The seemingly odd experiment intended to prove the internet could be used to physically control an object, and it was successful. He used the internet to make toast. This fun hack was the first instance of what would eventually become […]
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Nick is a Marketing Director at Unearth Technologies in Seattle, WA. He uses his background in academic research and technology to predict construction trends and analyze how contractors can best leverage them for their business.
Read more →The terms Predictive Maintenance and IoT have been intertwined and used significantly over the last several years has caused the true meaning of prediction in this context to be difficult to ascertain. These variations or differences in what a Predictive Maintenance program is and how it is actually construed has caused Manufacturers and distributors to […]
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Today, many cities are toying with the idea of becoming a “smart city” or a city that actively does everything from monitoring traffic patterns to predicting when a street light will go out to analyzing any digital information its collecting. However, while these are nice to know items that can make life easier for inhabitants, […]
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Hello IIoT World readers, and thanks for engaging with my column. Over the course of the next few months, I plan to write on a number of topics that are, individually, highly relevant to the IIoT Security realm. Perhaps more importantly, many of these topics can be viewed as being all inter-related in a way that […]
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Before you can begin to improve your network, you need to have visibility into your network. In this post, Frank Williams, CEO of Statseeker, explains why network visibility is important, how it can help your business save money, the best practices for building a network and why industrial companies need to apply smarter and more connected […]
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One certainty is that manufacturing processes continue to get better at producing data-primarily due to rapid cost reductions and improvements in data collection, communication, and storage technologies. The challenge, however, is that the ability to exploit this data for meaningful operational benefits is not keeping pace. There is real potential to use manufacturing data to […]
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