Creating a Scalable MQTT Environment

Creating a Scalable MQTT Environment

MQTT, a light-weight IoT messaging protocol over TCP/IP, is designed for large-scale telemetry environments with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is limited.  It operates as a producer-consumer paradigm, where…

IIoT is grabbing headlines for all the right reasons

IIoT is grabbing headlines for all the right reasons

Since the inception of the Internet of Things (IoT), a slew of connected products is emerging resulting in a drastic change in the way consumers interact with home appliances, cars, electronics, and other types of equipment.…

Wireless Reshaping IT/OT Network Best Practices

Wireless Reshaping IT/OT Network Best Practices

While wireless has been a part of networking for more than a decade, the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) will make significant changes in the way network architectures end up designed. Nowhere will those changes be more immediate…

Monetization of Data in Manufacturing Industry

Monetization of Data in Manufacturing Industry

The declining cost and size of sensors and communication technologies boosts the “Internet of Things” (IoT) by leaps and bounds. In 2017 Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT) forecast, Bain predicts that by…

Industry 4.0 demands new solutions for manufacturing

Industry 4.0 demands new solutions for manufacturing

Life is changing fast for manufacturing companies. Not only is the business of designing, making, shipping, distributing and selling finished goods becoming ever more global and competitive, but technology is ensuring that it is evolving at…

IIoT Startups vs Incumbent Giant Industrial Vendors

IIoT Startups vs Incumbent Giant Industrial Vendors

It’s an amazing time to be involved in manufacturing. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is providing opportunities to transform businesses quicker than ever before and, potentially, at a fraction of the cost. This is exactly…

5 Steps on Your Journey Toward Industry 4.0

5 Steps on Your Journey Toward Industry 4.0

Introducing new technology can be disruptive: upending the status quo is always challenging for businesses and their employees. For manufacturers, though, the idea of the smart factory of the future is quickly becoming a reality, and…

Benefits of using wireless industrial IoT sensors

Benefits of using wireless industrial IoT sensors

Industrial IoT has developed closely alongside consumer IoT goods and now is here to change the industrial applications as we know. One of the biggest breakthroughs in the last few years for IIoT have been wireless,…

“To Edge or not the Edge”

“To Edge or not the Edge”

The emergence of Edge Computing in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has become a cost prohibitive, expensive trend. Overall interest in Edge Computing has risen in the IIoT space because of confusion between the exact…