7 ways industries benefit from OT and IT Convergence
Just like the smartphone disrupted several markets by converging several different consumer devices into a single one, the same disruption is happening with infrastructure in the IT and OT industries – they are converging into one single system, in a single place: the…
We need more Edisons than Einsteins - How Edison’s Techniques Can Accelerate New Industrial Revolution With IoT
In this new world of Industrial IoT, your Edisons will help you succeed. Inspiration “We only had about 1000 failures to invent the light bulb”. Thomas Edison’s incremental problem-solving approach through experimentation made his inventions meaningful to…
How Smart Factories Benefit From Digital Twins
Today, the term Digital Twin is ubiquitous. Four years ago, I had my first personal contact with this concept. I attended the VDI conference “Big Data in Manufacturing”, where a General Electric’s (GE) manager presented the…
Trustworthiness methods in Industrial System Design
Trustworthiness in the context of an industrial system is a relatively new term intended to provide a better understanding of the meaning of trust in such a system and how this trust can be approached by…
24 interesting Startups focused on Industry 4.0 to watch out at the Web Summit
ALPHA 2018 has sold out. ALPHA is a program run by Web Summit organizers and aims to spotlight the early stage startups engineering the future, connecting them to the world’s most influential companies at Web Summit.…
Combine Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics and Azure IoT Edge
Based on customer requests we have implemented support for running Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics on Azure IoT Edge. Now you can innovate much faster and without the cost, risk and developer dependencies that come with writing…
Navigating the big pivot from IoT to AI-driven analytics
If you’ve worked in industry for any length of time, you’ve experienced wave after wave of digital technologies washing over the plant floor, from robots to tablets. The next decade will see a new technological wave…
The Transformation of the Tech Sector’s Second Most Famous Fruit Will Spark your Interest
I remember vividly the feel of that little side-wheel spinning rapidly in response to my overly exercised thumb’s pressure. Scrolling frantically through the myriad of emails and messages on my BlackBerry 7100 was a daily ritual. …
Refinery of the Future type of projects: benefits and opportunities
This month two members of IIoT World have been invited by HPE to visit their IoT Innovation Lab in Houston and two separate sites where IIoT implementation is already a reality, leveraging the benefits of the…
IoT Gateway Software For Connecting Industrial Equipment
IoT gateway software is the unsung hero of industrial IoT. Your IoT gateway bridges the worlds of OT and IT, where the physical becomes digital. Your industrial equipment speaks through varied industrial protocols, and your gateway…