Time-series data storage and management has long been an interesting—if quiet—market category. It’s been a multibillion-dollar business for years and a mainstay in process-manufacturing plants since the 1980s. But recently, the category has been getting another look from investors and companies large and small. Why? For starters, time-series data volumes are huge: way back in 2010 […]
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With Industry 4.0, the manufacturing world is embracing the very significant efficiencies and cost benefits to be gained through sensing, collecting and analysing data through many disparate sensors out in the field. The advantages are clear: adopting IoT brings about a more connected ecosystem with data gathered every second of the day or night by […]
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We have been building industrial IoT systems since 2009. Back then, we worked with our customers to build almost every component needed at the edge and in the cloud. Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) weren’t yet offering much more than compute, storage, and networking services – not that it mattered much as most […]
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Cisco Live just wrapped last week, and we had a lot of great conversations with customers who are looking to evolve their manufacturing operations and achieve an “ultimate state.” Many of these conversations revolved around how to improve their factory network and reduce downtime, taking advantage of wireless in a plant and becoming more secure, […]
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The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™) announced the publication of the IIC Introduction to Edge Computing in IIoT white paper. The paper provides practical guidance on edge computing, architectures and the building blocks necessary for edge computing implementations. The IIC is also planning to release an Edge Computing Technical Report that will contain in-depth technical information in the coming months. “Many companies are […]
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This is the fourth installment of a five-part series covering the impact of Augmented Reality on the transportation and logistics industry. In the previous parts of this series, we looked at the critical business issues facing many parts of the Transportation and Logistics sector, challenges in specific areas of the sector (such as the trucking industry) and […]
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Where is the real money in IIoT? Industrial IoT (IIoT) is a huge business opportunity. According to IndustryARC research (June 2016), the IIoT market is estimated to reach $123.89 Billion by 2021 at a high CAGR. According to Accenture, the impact of IIoT on global GDP will be $14.3 Trillion by 2030. Up to 60% […]
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Several years ago, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) era launched with a big bang. Much talk was generated regarding how the industry would be forever changed. Although the speculation was somewhat overhyped, most of the industry had a sense that a new and different way of conducting business was about to emerge. However, most businesses were […]
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This year Cisco had a significant presence at Hannover Messe 2018. Customers and potential customers had the chance to walk through five booth zones, all of them being related to the Industry 4.0/smart manufacturing. The five zones were focused on the following: Connected factory network Time-sensitive networking Industrial cybersecurity Data Management Operational Excellence A big […]
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IIoT World’s co-founder, Lucian Fogoros, will be moderating a panel discussion “Predictive Analytics & Industrial IoT for Manufacturing” during the LiveWorx in Boston June 20th, 2018. The panel discussion will include four other senior executives representing promising startups such as: Augury, Clearblade, Machine Metrics, RRAMAC. The panelists will cover the benefits for manufacturers including best practices […]
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It’s a little known fact that nearly every Toyota Camry (75%), Tacoma (96%), Tundra (85%) and Sequoia (100%) on the road in the U.S., Canada and Mexico contains a transmission that was built in North Carolina. AW North Carolina, Inc. (AWNC) is a part of Aisin Group, the #1 manufacturer of automatic transmissions and transmission components […]
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Over the past 10 years we’ve watched cloud computing come of age as more and more companies send their data to the cloud for processing, storage, and management rather than keeping that data on a local server or Edge gateway. The benefits of cloud computing are vast, however there is another key development on the […]
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