Articles tagged as IIoT

Accelerating IIoT Initiatives Through an Ecosystem Approach
· Smart Manufacturing

Accelerating IIoT Initiatives Through an Ecosystem Approach

IIoT initiatives can be major projects involving millions in custom development and integrations, years of work, and collaboration across all levels and departments of an organization. However, the result of such an approach is often a large, bulky, difficult-to-implement IoT “initiative” with no actionable use cases to speak of. Aside from the typically high failure rate of these IIoT projects, an unprecedented pandemic only exacerbated the problem. The question this begs asking: Why invest in digital transformation initiatives at the corporate level when you still don’t have usable data from the factory floor?

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Enabling a New Era of Industrial IoT with Free-Use Wireless Spectrum
· Connected Industry

Enabling a New Era of Industrial IoT with Free-Use Wireless Spectrum

Flexibility, ingrained security and centralized management are the touchstone of successful network deployments in just about any setting, especially as devices and services proliferate whether it be over wired or wireless infrastructure. What Free-Use Wireless Spectrum Delivers A lot has been coming together for 2021. The advent of 5G over CBRS  “free-to-use spectrum,” edge cloud […]

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Digital Transformation Case Studies – Part 2
· Industrial IoT

Digital Transformation Case Studies – Part 2

Note: Part 1 of Digital Transformation Case Studies can be found here. Case Study #3: Tastitalia connects a different kind of industrial machine to the Internet of Things   Tastitalia, an Italian company that creates customized solutions for human-machine interfaces, managed to control production costs and quality levels of their processes in an extremely precise and continuous […]

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The Fallacy of an IoT Silver Bullet
· Connected Industry

The Fallacy of an IoT Silver Bullet

Does the Internet of Things (IoT) provide a Silver Bullet for a Smart Industrial Environment?……Spoiler Alert: No, it doesn’t. Introduction The promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is wide-ranging and, in essence, seemingly endless. Whether you’re interested in creating a smarter industrial facility, reaping the benefits of operational efficiencies, or curbing energy-related costs, the […]

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Picking a path: build versus buy
· Connected Industry

Picking a path: build versus buy

Every organization in our digital world has to determine whether it is better to buy commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software or build software that directly meets their needs. For over 20 years, the argument has strongly favored buy. Historically, COTS has had several advantages: faster time-tomarket, lower engineering costs, lower risk and immediate deployment for use. […]

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Building a Remote Monitoring Service to Boost Revenue
· Industrial IoT

Building a Remote Monitoring Service to Boost Revenue

If you’re an OEM and pursuing the Internet of Things (IoT), one of your biggest opportunities is to offer an IoT service that extends the value of the equipment you sell. A remote monitoring service gives your customers instant visibility into the performance and health of their equipment, and simultaneously provides you with a new […]

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More Interoperability in the IIoT
· Connected Industry

More Interoperability in the IIoT

Why the manufacturing industry needs communication standardsThe digital transformation has been underway on factory floors for some time now. As digital technologies emerges as a key factor for remaining competitive, the need for change gains focus. The sheer complexity of many existing systems makes data transparency and networking difficult and highlights why the production industry […]

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Industry 4.0 and Open Innovation
· Connected Industry

Industry 4.0 and Open Innovation

One buzzwords nowadays is “4th Industrial Revolution”. Let’s ask ourselves: What are we talking about when we say “4th Industrial Revolution”? For sure, we are talking about a huge potential of innovation in Industry 4.0. Numerous studies have attempted to quantify the opportunities, and all talk about BIG numbers, in terms of number of connected devices, […]

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Deploying Analytics On The Shop Floor: How And Where To Start
· Analytics

Deploying Analytics On The Shop Floor: How And Where To Start

Industrial Digital Transformation is happening, but the reality is that most companies are handling data on paper. To think about analytics on the shop floor, one of the first things to be done is to automate not only the process, but the data collection and transformation. This is a key step to think about Artificial Intelligence or other terms like Digital Twins and that […]

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Benefits of Industrial Equipment Monitoring
· Connected Industry

Benefits of Industrial Equipment Monitoring

OEMS have the power to create new revenue streams and extend new services to customers by using IoT to monitor their equipment. Insights can lead to better parts and products, and provide an advantage over competitive offerings. The Losant Enterprise IoT Platform has already helped a number of OEMs implement cloud machine monitoring solutions, and […]

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Cybersecurity for Shared Cloud Environments
· Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity for Shared Cloud Environments

In its recent Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) research note, Gartner identified memory exploit protection as an essential component of any organization’s CWP strategy (Gartner, Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2020):  “Exploit Prevention/Memory Protection–application control solutions are fallible and must be combined with exploit prevention and memory protection capabilities…”—Gartner CWPP 2020 Cybersecurity Considerations for the Cloud Cloud deployments […]

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