Alarm Integration in Critical Video Monitoring Systems
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Alarm Integration in Critical Video Monitoring Systems

When selecting a video solutions partner to provide a system for your critical process, security, or safety monitoring application, it is important to consider that the ultimate solution is much more than a collection of cameras. In addition to cameras, most comprehensive monitoring systems include video management software that provides a flexible platform for the […]

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Rearview Business Intelligence misleads strategy for most of today’s enterprises
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Rearview Business Intelligence misleads strategy for most of today’s enterprises

Businesses are quickly joining the big data revolution. The outcome is a collection of massive efforts to collect and condition enterprise data that represents the last month, the previous quarter, or past years. Then, they crunch the big data into a digestible view that makes some predictions about the future. We now know this practice […]

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A Guide for selecting the right microcontroller for your IoT project
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A Guide for selecting the right microcontroller for your IoT project

What is a microcontroller in IoT? Microcontrollers are tiny, self-contained computers hosted on a microchip. They enable connectivity and control in all the things which could be connected to the internet. Microcontrollers are designed to perform specific functions, and they can be integrated into almost anything ranging from industrial equipment, warehouse inventory items, wearables devices, […]

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Smart Water Management using IoT Internet of Things Technologies
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Smart Water Management using IoT Internet of Things Technologies

Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region, which is, according to the “United Nations Development Programme,” caused mainly by poor management of those resources, affecting around 1.2 billion people around the world. The Internet of Things as a technology holds great potential […]

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IIC: Industrial IoT Reference Architecture
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IIC: Industrial IoT Reference Architecture

One can find many ROI opportunities when looking at IoT to solve problems and bring value in an industrial context. Process improvement, asset tracking, and preventative maintenance are the three major pillars that drive ROI opportunities. The constant churning wheel of New Industrial IoT Platforms from vendors new and old can be staggering for those […]

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There is no single “killer app” for anything, particularly for IIoT
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There is no single “killer app” for anything, particularly for IIoT

As a Product Manager, we can’t keep chasing the next big thing all the time. It’s true we need to understand where technology is going, but we need to be more pragmatic and realize there is no single “killer app” for anything. Particularly for IIoT. Is predictive maintenance the killer app for IIoT? Predictive maintenance […]

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Three Ways SDN Helps to Solve Industrial IoT’s Undiscovered Security Problems
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Three Ways SDN Helps to Solve Industrial IoT’s Undiscovered Security Problems

Even before the major denial-of-service attack that took down power in the Ukraine in December 2015, industrial systems experts had been growing more restive about the mounting insecurities of these mission critical systems. That attack brought significant awareness to this issue. In the  18 months since then we’ve seen other similar examples of what happens […]

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Virtualization of Your Network: five most serious challenges
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Virtualization of Your Network: five most serious challenges

Gartner Research defined network virtualization as the process of combining hardware and software network resources and functionality into a single virtual network. This offers access to routing features and data streams that can provide newer, service-aware, resilient solutions and also, many challenges; newer security services that are native within network elements; support for subscriber-aware policy […]

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The Complexities of Scaling IoT Projects
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The Complexities of Scaling IoT Projects

Analyst firm IDC predicts that by 2019, 45 percent of IoT-created data will be stored, processed, analyzed and acted upon close to, or at the edge of, the network. The challenge is that many companies want to take advantage of the value IoT offers to improve and scale their business, but they do not know […]

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Ten ways IoT differs from IIoT
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Ten ways IoT differs from IIoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables disruptive transformation across multiple market segments, from consumer, enterprise, agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities to government and cities. Industrial IoT (IIoT), a subset of the larger IoT, focuses on the specialized requirements of industrial applications, such as manufacturing, oil and gas, and utilities. Although IoT and IIoT share common technologies […]

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Advanced Predictive Analytics versus Traditional Historical Forecasting
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Advanced Predictive Analytics versus Traditional Historical Forecasting

Traditional forecasting, using historical observations estimate future business metrics such as inventory requirements, asset performance, budgets and revenue. Compared to predictive analytics, this practice fails to deliver the precision and agility required of leading enterprises and effective IoT asset management programs meeting difficult challenges. The reason for this shortfall is simple: the past does not […]

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