Gene Carter, Director of Product Management
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Gene Carter, Director of Product Management

Gene is OnBoard Security‘s VP of Products and is responsible for Product Management and Marketing of all products, including Aerolink®, TSS and NTRU. Gene was the Director of Products at Security Innovation’s SI-Embedded Division. Before joining Security Innovation in 2013, Gene has spent the past 20 years in embedded and automotive product management roles for NXP Semiconductors, […]

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Case Study: How video could save warehouses 46 million dollars per year
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Case Study: How video could save warehouses 46 million dollars per year

Challenge: Tracking and Controlling Warehouse Inventory To keep daily operations running smoothly at large plants, manufacturers typically employ a staff of maintenance workers who are solely responsible for repairing and replacing on-site equipment. This plant equipment is stored within warehouse facilities so components can be quickly retrieved when a maintenance issue arises. However, keeping track […]

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Five benefits of network virtualization
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Five benefits of network virtualization

New challenges and technologies such as virtualization are disrupting networks everywhere, with many businesses struggling to remain agile. What is network virtualization? Network virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software based administrative entity. Virtual networks are no longer something to consider in the future. […]

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The cost of one minute downtime in manufacturing
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The cost of one minute downtime in manufacturing

Unplanned work stoppages cost global industries millions of dollars in lost revenue. Downtime can be caused for multiple reasons. Examples can be weather delays in airline companies or cyber crime which lead to infrastructure breakdowns. Susceptibility to failure persists, particularly as it relates to factories. According to some research information, more than 90% of machines […]

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IIoT Impact on Asset Performance Management
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IIoT Impact on Asset Performance Management

The impact of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on the market for asset reliability software and services cannot be understated. In fact, leading suppliers are using asset performance management (APM) as the entry point to IIoT. The link between APM and IIoT has spurred a flurry of supplier consolidation and strategic alliances as suppliers […]

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Robert Hubbard, Director OEM Development at BlackRidge Technology
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Robert Hubbard, Director OEM Development at BlackRidge Technology

Rob joined BlackRidge in 2017 to drive network security partnerships and solutions. He was previously with CarbonHelix where he drove their SIEM as a service business with IBM. Rob is a networking and security industry veteran with experience building products, solutions and alliances for Cisco and Juniper Networks. Robert offers a broad and realistic industry perspective […]

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The Indubitable Role of Entrepreneurship in Smart Infrastructure
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The Indubitable Role of Entrepreneurship in Smart Infrastructure

The world is currently experiencing a fourth industrial revolution due to the rapid development of technologies and digital abundance such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing, etc. Gaining more from existing assets is incredibly vital. It awfully will be more cost-effective to add to the overall value of mature infrastructure through digital enhancements than […]

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Industrial Espionage is a major threat to the Manufacturing Sector
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Industrial Espionage is a major threat to the Manufacturing Sector

Industrial espionage is nothing new. Theft of trade secrets and corporate intellectual property (IP) such as proprietary manufacturing processes, formulas, recipes, and product designs has been happening for decades. And you probably already know this if you work in industries such as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. What is industrial espionage? Industrial espionage is sometimes credited […]

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Smart Cities – From Vertical Farming to Vertiports
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Smart Cities – From Vertical Farming to Vertiports

Cities are bursting at their seams and to manage the urban sprawl the strategy has been simple – Go vertical! Tall buildings, elevated transportation, vertical farming, and now vertiports! All indications even at the recently concluded Uber Elevate Summit, point to one certainty– the platform disruption is getting ready for lift-off! Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) […]

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Protecting IIoT with a New Approach to Cyber Defense
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Protecting IIoT with a New Approach to Cyber Defense

Measure, monitor and monetize has long been a mantra for any industry or corporation that wants to be successful with its products or services. This capability is finally ubiquitous thanks to technology being powerful enough and cost effective enough to measure and track everything, from a smart football to complex Industrial systems. The Internet of Things […]

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Changing a Lightbulb with a Hammer: Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning
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Changing a Lightbulb with a Hammer: Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning

Machine Learning (ML) isn’t so mystical after all. Machine Learning is a new term that re-packages well-established statistical techniques that have been around for decades. Machine Learning reacts to new information by learning. The “learning” happens by observing the past—sometimes the very recent past. Machine Learning can deliver on the promise of self-adjusting algorithms that […]

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Who owns the Machine Generated Data in IoT – Men or Machine?
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Who owns the Machine Generated Data in IoT – Men or Machine?

The data which is acquired by sensors is essentially Machine Generated Data (MGD). This post will dwell on the subject of data ownership of MGD as follows: Sensors (Data Acquisition and Communication) Machine Generated Data The Lifecycle of the MGD and the Ownership Paradigm Who should be the owner of the MGD? In the IoT […]

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