Cisco Kinetic for Manufacturing – one of the discussed subjects at Hannover Messe 2018
· Connected Industry

Cisco Kinetic for Manufacturing – one of the discussed subjects at Hannover Messe 2018

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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Machine Learning is the New Jake
· Predictive Analytics

Machine Learning is the New Jake

Everyone in, and serving, manufacturing businesses has encountered terms such as Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, and Smart Factory. Small compute footprints, low-cost, high-availability communication systems, high-capacity–low-cost memory, rapidly evolving sensor technology, and new time-series data structures supporting real-time analytics are all conspiring to empower industrial operators to transform their businesses from “tribal knowledge systems” to […]

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IIoT Benefits: What value does IIoT offer industrial companies?
· Connected Industry

IIoT Benefits: What value does IIoT offer industrial companies?

Industry 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is inexorably gathering strength. Industry 4.0 introduces the digitalization of processes, the Internet of Things, the installation of widespread sensors in the physical environment and the ability to rapidly enhance production economics through real-time performance-data analysis. IIoT Benefits for New Technology The new generation of digitalized, automated technology now available is enabling manufacturers around […]

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Challenges in training algorithms for autonomous cars
· Artificial Intelligence & ML

Challenges in training algorithms for autonomous cars

In my earlier article, we talked about the usage of machine learning algorithms in autonomous cars. Obviously, the process of training algorithms for autonomous cars, learning and implementation of machine learning is not without a huge set of challenges. Challenges in autonomous vehicle training: In this article we will talk about the challenges in training data […]

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Virtualization of Your Network: five most serious challenges
· Connected Industry

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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Strategies for Improving Smart City Logistics
· Smart Cities

Strategies for Improving Smart City Logistics

What is City Logistics? Efficient, timely and accurate delivery is a necessity to retailers and logistics providers survival in an Amazon Prime world. Smart Cities goals of livability and sustainability means they want less trucks, congestion and pollution. For all stakeholders to achieve their goals, the only answer is to work together. If cities, retailers, […]

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Benefits of using wireless industrial IoT sensors
· Connected Industry

Benefits of using wireless industrial IoT sensors

Industrial IoT has developed closely alongside consumer IoT goods and now is here to change the industrial applications as we know. One of the biggest breakthroughs in the last few years for IIoT have been wireless, low power wide area networks (LPWAN) that have fostered the development of wireless industrial sensors and IoT applications overall. […]

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“To Edge or not the Edge”
· Connected Industry

“To Edge or not the Edge”

The emergence of Edge Computing in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has become a cost prohibitive, expensive trend. Overall interest in Edge Computing has risen in the IIoT space because of confusion between the exact needs of IIoT vs. Industry 4.0. For simple definitional clarity, Industry 4.0 technology is destined for the industrial factory; […]

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Save the date: November 9, 2017 Integr8™ Industry 4.0 Event in Detroit, Mi
· Connected Industry

Save the date: November 9, 2017 Integr8™ Industry 4.0 Event in Detroit, Mi

Automation Alley will host a conference about Industry 4.0 on November 9th, 2017. The Integr8™ event is a global Industry 4.0 conference focused on the eight technologies that are disrupting the manufacturing industry with over 500 tech, manufacturing leaders, business executives expected to attend the first Industry 4.0 conference of its kind. IIoT World’s co-founder, […]

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If AI has the power to transform all industries, why hasn’t it?
· Artificial Intelligence

If AI has the power to transform all industries, why hasn’t it?

There is a ton of noise about AI for industry today. A quick search on Google for “Artificial Intelligence” returned 82M results and almost 4M news stories. Bloomberg reported in June that mentions of AI in earnings transcripts has risen from less than 60 in 2016 to over 250 in just Q1 of this year! […]

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Why Don’t More Cars Update Their Software Automatically?
· Connected Industry

Why Don’t More Cars Update Their Software Automatically?

Tesla is the only major automaker that offers over the air (OTA) updates of both car software and firmware. This allows Tesla to add new features like new voice commands, driver profiles or blind spot warnings that weren’t available when the car was purchased. It also allows them to fix bugs that were either causing […]

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The Indubitable Role of Entrepreneurship in Smart Infrastructure
· Digital Disruption

The Indubitable Role of Entrepreneurship in Smart Infrastructure

The world is currently experiencing a fourth industrial revolution due to the rapid development of technologies and digital abundance such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing, etc. Gaining more from existing assets is incredibly vital. It awfully will be more cost-effective to add to the overall value of mature infrastructure through digital enhancements than […]

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