Kelly Frey, VP
· Our Contributors

Kelly Frey, VP

Kelly Frey, Vice President, product marketing brings more than 20 years of experience to Telogis, a Verizon Company as a senior executive and entrepreneur focused on transportation, supply chain optimization and fleet compliance solutions. Kelly was CEO and Co-founder of BigRoad and was previously responsible for directing the sales and business development for Turnpike Global […]

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· Connected Industry

Converged Networks – a Peek into the Future

What will it take? Will Operational Technology (OT) disappear as we know it today – morphed into the Informational Technology (IT) space where both areas are driven by the same disruptive technology of the IoE (Internet-of-Everything)? A transformation of the industrial network is in full swing. Sometimes referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things, […]

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David W. Viel, CEO
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David W. Viel, CEO

David W. Viel, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO of Cognoscenti Systems, LLC.  He has extensive experience in research and development of mission critical systems in a wide variety of fields including military control systems, space, modeling and simulation, computer languages, telecommunications, and distributed systems.  He also has led a number of teams in the […]

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If AI has the power to transform all industries, why hasn’t it?
· Artificial Intelligence

If AI has the power to transform all industries, why hasn’t it?

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, COO
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Todd Hay, COO

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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Decoding Digital Transformation with IoT
· Digital Disruption

Decoding Digital Transformation with IoT

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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Five main qualities of Industrial IoT in the digital power plants
· Connected Industry

Five main qualities of Industrial IoT in the digital power plants

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, Global Technology Manager
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Marco Sanguineti, Global Technology Manager

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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IoT Innovation in Construction Industry
· Connected Industry

IoT Innovation in Construction Industry

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 Hertzman, Marketing Director
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Nick Hertzman, Marketing Director

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.

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· Predictive Analytics

Choose the Right Level of Predictive Maintenance

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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Hidden revenue streams for smart cities
· Smart Cities

Hidden revenue streams for smart cities

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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