Edge Computing – Insights from the Factory Floor

Edge Computing – Insights from the Factory Floor

The industrial IoT (IIoT) is a relatively new concept for many industrial companies and manufacturers, but FogHorn Systems has been leading the development and implementation of IIoT with a pioneering approach to edge computing and analytics…

Process Monitoring in the Automotive Industry

Process Monitoring in the Automotive Industry

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become inescapable in reports related to IT. Each individual device on the IoT is identified by an individual Internet address, can access through the Internet and can interact with connected…

IIoT’s Immense Entrepreneurial Opportunities

IIoT’s Immense Entrepreneurial Opportunities

The optimistic temperament of successful entrepreneurship is what has tremendously shaped and revolutionized our world today. Our present world as it still unfolds is the direct results of the incredible vision, the extremely indefatigable beliefs and…

Managing Industrial IoT Edge Devices

Managing Industrial IoT Edge Devices

If you ask end users about factors that impede the Industrial IoT the #1 factor is usually cybersecurity and the second is manageability. Drill down on what they mean by “manageability” and this expands to “remote…

Why All System Integrators Must Fully Embrace IIoT Now

Why All System Integrators Must Fully Embrace IIoT Now

“Companies whose investment processes demand quantification of market sizes and financial returns before they can enter a market get paralyzed or make serious mistakes when faced with disruptive technologies” Clayton M Christensen – The Innovator’s Dilemma. The excerpt above…

Five areas Internet of Things can improve air travel

Five areas Internet of Things can improve air travel

In an era where customer service can make or break an airport’s reputation, the Internet of Things provides a strategy for success. Flight delays alone will cost commercial aviation an anticipated $20 billion by 2020, and aviation…

Defining the term “IIoT Network Edge”

Defining the term “IIoT Network Edge”

Last week’s release of the Industrial Internet Consortium’s Industrial Internet Vocabulary Technical Report V2.0 coincided with renewed discussion on ARC’s Industrial Internet of Things LinkedIn page concerning the definition of the IIoT network edge. After a dutiful search of the…

The High Potency of Low Power in the IoT Ecosystem

The High Potency of Low Power in the IoT Ecosystem

The network characteristics of IoT ecosystems based on wireless technologies are quite different from those for traditional wired or wireless networks because the number of devices participating in communication is very large. Also, traffic per IoT…

Transition to Industry 4.0 in Three Steps

Transition to Industry 4.0 in Three Steps

Whether you’ve embraced the notion of digital manufacturing or you’re wondering where to even begin, there are things you can do right now to move a little closer to the future and make that all-important transition…