The Smart Columbus project started with the mission to accelerate human progress through open mobility. Essential to developing a smart city was not only data collection and state of the art technology, but also the ability…
Why IoTs have created a security crisis and strained the communications infrastructure along the way. Quick Hit Points: Mobile phone markets are completely saturated, yet the IoT market, in its infancy, still outnumbers mobile phones 2:1…
When it comes to managing risk in an industrial business, many consider damage through natural disasters and fire or explosions to be of great concern, because they can cost a company dearly. But there are common…
A strong school of thought pertaining to the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) revolution is that it’ll happen at the edge and not in the cloud. But what kind of servers and storage technology really supports…
By its nature, IoT is open and interoperable. In fact, that’s the very spirit of IoT – and the reason why so many fast-growing companies are driving innovation within an open digital ecosystem. As any startup knows, you may launch with a…
Network Effects are Powerful Since the early days of TCP/IP, connectivity-driven convergence has created waves of multi-billion dollar markets, seemingly out of thin air. All of the successes thus far have had one thing in common:…
Engineers do amazing things every day. Their efforts radically transform our collective future. Imagine describing industrial operations today to someone living just one hundred years ago. Modern manufacturing facilities and energy production systems are downright miracles.…
Manufacturers are under increasing pressure to optimize profits and efficiencies while simultaneously reducing costs – a daunting challenge. However, the emergence of digitalization and its associated technologies is making this feat possible for the manufacturing industry.…
For those concerned about cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, there is nothing more terrifying than the prospect of a successful cyber-attack on a dam or powerplant. The after effects of such an attack could have potentially catastrophic…
I had the honor of speaking on IoT security policy at the annual CyberNextDC conference organized by the Cybersecurity Coalition. As the number of connected devices grows and these devices are increasingly used to perpetrate “botnets”,…
Connected devices and the subsequent birth of the Internet of Things (IoT) have provided businesses a veritable treasure trove of data to mine, understand, and reapply to their own processes. And thus, the Industrial Internet of…
Industry 4.0 is rapidly transforming how businesses across the globe are operating in an ever increasingly commercially competitive landscape. According to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Market Size & Forecast Report, the global market is…