Benefits of the blockchain technology in manufacturing
Blockchain technology attempts to address the problems described in the previous section through a common data architecture that allows non-trusting parties to share information in a more secure manner. Blockchains…
Collaborations in CubeSat Technology Could Signify a Faster Route to Mobile Infrastructure in IoT
Analysis of the IoT market often results in observers drawing a strong correlation between its trends, and rising popularity among techies and engineers, with a gravitational pull akin to last…
Legal Issues in Smart Manufacturing
Two lawyers walk into a smart manufacturing conference. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? Well, no, actually, it was the reality last month when lawyers Matt Pollins,…
Blockchain: The Missing Link Between Security and the IoT?
The internet of things (IoT) has been associated with major cyberattacks, often involving the abuse of vulnerable connected devices, such as surveillance cameras, to facilitate malicious activities. Of course, concerns…
Auto industry partnerships seize the day at CES 2018
You would have been forgiven for thinking that this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2018) was actually an auto show. There were electric cars, semi-autonomous cars, cars with built-in Amazon…
Eminence at the Edge
Since Internet of Things technology started to gain mainstream traction, multiple platforms, solutions and strategies have been developed. At the moment there are more than 450 ‘platforms’ commercially available. Yet,…
The state of Automotive, Industrial & Medical Electronics Manufacturing
Over the past two decades, the global market for printed circuit boards has been shaped by the growth of and technological change in the electronics industry in general and, in…
Your Cloud Ready Monitoring Solution
The percentage of businesses moving from a traditional physical infrastructure model to a cloud deployment model is increasing year, upon year. While public deployments are rising steadily, private deployments are skyrocketing, and…
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…
Thoughts on the on-going global cyber attacks as they affect ICSs
For many years, there have been warnings about the cyber vulnerability of multiple infrastructures world-wide. Yet, those warnings are still not being adequately addressed. In 2004, the Idaho National Laboratory…
Onalytica’s Top IIoT Twitter influencers at Hannover Messe 2017 Show
Making the benefits of digitalization tangible – that was the declared objective of HANNOVER MESSE 2017. After five action-packed days at the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology, the…
SCADA for Remote Utilities Monitoring: 4 Layers to Grasp
The term supervisory control and data acquisition systems – also known as SCADA – is quite a mouthful. In reality SCADA is a well-established, if not complex, means for monitoring…