With a compound annual growth rate of around 28% for the next seven years, every year will be a big one for Industrial IoT. Inevitably as more companies adopt IIoT, the technology will evolve and mature. Evolution is built into the idea if Industrial IoT. Devices themselves are expected to be able to add functionality […]
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The UK is a global leader in manufacturing. With an industrial heritage second to none the sector currently has an employer base that spans almost 90 000 organizations and there is a major drive to implement leading edge technologies as part of the global megatrend that is Industry 4.0. As recognized by the UK Government, […]
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Cyberattacks against financial companies such as JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup and vendors such as Target, eBay, and Home Depot have received so much media attention these past years. Unknown to many, smart manufacturing companies are also not immune to cyberattacks. According to Deloitte, smart manufacturers are now being targeted not just by random hackers and […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A lot of big companies are creating “Innovation Labs” to generate IIoT platforms. We talk to them every day. Yet we see precious few successful IIoT systems ever delivered by these centralized teams. It’s not a problem of smarts or hard work. These are strong, motivated developers. But the Internet of Things is different, even […]
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