New: IoT Signals Report by Microsoft
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New: IoT Signals Report by Microsoft

We’re living amid an invisible revolution driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). This revolution goes far beyond the smart speakers and thermostats in homes and includes billions of connected devices and sensors that are transforming every industry on the planet, from manufacturing to energy distribution, from smart cities to smart agriculture, from smart buildings […]

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Focus! …and Take IIoT Action
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Focus! …and Take IIoT Action

Your focus may be within your four walls – but the real value is shifting the Industrial IoT attention to your supply chain. While the latest edge computing consolidates, contextualizes and filters end-point sensor data near the point of creation, it also provides a pathway for this data to be packaged and delivered. Where it’s […]

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A Digital Success Plan for IIoT 
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A Digital Success Plan for IIoT 

It’s a rare industrial organization today unable to point to one or a dozen initiatives inside their enterprise with the moniker of  IIoT, Industry 4.0, smart product, or some other label under the general category of digital transformation. Yet according to McKinsey, 70% of these projects fail to deliver business value. Why? Most teams consist […]

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The key role of AR in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 2
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The key role of AR in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 2

This post is the second of a 3-part series. Check back in next week for the conclusion of this series. In the first part of this series – The key role of Augmented Reality in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 1 – we looked at the fundamental ideas behind what has been called “Industry 4.0” – […]

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Smart Cities are Made Smart by Planning and Strategy
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Smart Cities are Made Smart by Planning and Strategy

Cities around the world are making huge investments in technology that will help them provide better services, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and operate in a way that leverages the power of IoT, artificial intelligence and 5G technologies. Put together, these investments are part of the story in delivering on the vision of “Smart Cities” – […]

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The key role of Augmented Reality in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 1
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The key role of Augmented Reality in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 1

We are in the midst of a massive change in manufacturing – and how well companies embrace and adapt to it is crucial to their future. Over the last several years, industrial companies have been undertaking a number of initiatives to move themselves to a goal of what has been called “Industry 4.0” or “Factory […]

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Why It’s Hard to Make Your IIoT Solution Happen
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Why It’s Hard to Make Your IIoT Solution Happen

If you’re like me, you might feel as if the industrial internet of things (IIoT) should be more of a thing by now. That’s not to say it isn’t panning out. IIoT applications are on the rise, and recent estimates anticipate as much as $14 trillion in additions “to global domestic product by 2030” thanks […]

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Three key ways to ensure that implementing IIoT goes off smoothly
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Three key ways to ensure that implementing IIoT goes off smoothly

There are three key ways to ensure that implementing IIoT—and in particular IoT integration on the factory floor—in your manufacturing environment goes off without too much difficulty: Make sure that you are not getting stuck with the 20/60/20 rule of change management. This is where 20% of your workforce is firmly on board with your plans, […]

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Edge or Cloud? The Six Factors That Determine Where to Put Workloads
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Edge or Cloud? The Six Factors That Determine Where to Put Workloads

It’s predictable as continental drift: the center of gravity in computing moves every few decades from the center and the edge and back again thanks to changing demands and technological advances. From 1948 to the 70s, centralized mainframes ruled because that’s all there was. Then Intel invested 4004 in 1971 which brought processing power to […]

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