Accelerating Industrial DataOps to optimize Data Management and IoT Scalability – a catalog of case studies
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Accelerating Industrial DataOps to optimize Data Management and IoT Scalability – a catalog of case studies

IIoT practices are having an impact, but Developers struggle to scale successful AI/ML projects. WHY? Data management is many times the culprit. Industrial OT and Business IT are not the same. For example: Business data is delivered in batches or transaction records complete with metadata descriptors but lacking synchronous time stamps for correlation. Industrial OT […]

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Four pillars of the industrial IoT
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Four pillars of the industrial IoT

The fourth industrial revolution is making manufacturing faster, smarter and leaner. Known as Industry 4.0, this wave sweeping across factory floors takes automation to the next level. Using the Industrial Internet of Things, manufacturers can connect the physical world with the digital and take complete control over systems as never before. Manufacturers can harness data […]

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A database built for life on the edge is the smart solution
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A database built for life on the edge is the smart solution

With each passing day, the Internet of Things is becoming more and more prevalent – at the office, in the laboratory, on the production line, etc. IoT technology is not only improving the way things are done now, it is opening the doors to new advancements in areas such as real-time decision making and predictive […]

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Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: Part 1
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Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: Part 1

In this two-part series, we look into various cybersecurity threats that affected industrial control systems endpoints. We also discuss several insights and recommendations to mitigate such threats. The ever-changing technological landscape has made it possible for the business process on the IT side of an enterprise to be interconnected with the physical process on the […]

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IoT vs. IIoT
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IoT vs. IIoT

The IoT world is a big world that everybody is talking about. IoT products nowadays come in different forms — some are labelled as IoT, but in fact they represent only a small portion of what an IoT product really entails. A fully fledged IoT project not only requires programming and hardware expertise but also […]

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The virtualization in the factory
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The virtualization in the factory

Virtualization, which in recent years has taken increasingly important steps, has become the model of integration and management of systems with the most promising evolution. Virtualization also means rationalizing the use of a network, of a data storage resource, of software. What is Virtualization? The concept of virtualization describes a technology that is abstracted from […]

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Blockchain for the industry
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Blockchain for the industry

A technology with great potential, which can optimize processes and solve problems, but which, without giving in to easy enthusiasm, must be carefully contextualized, under penalty of premature rejection. The Blockchain theme has been proposed several times in recent years and companies have different opinions on the evolution of this “disruptive” technology, especially regarding the […]

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Manufacturing: How are AI applications at the edge evolving
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Manufacturing: How are AI applications at the edge evolving

AI application at the edge is growing rapidly with 80% of enterprise IoT projects projected to incorporate AI by 2022. According to GSMA Intelligence, it’s also estimated that the AI in the Internet of Things (IoT) market will grow at a 27% CAGR through to 2026. In this CxO series, Lucian Fogoros sits down with […]

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Distributed Edge Computing: New Kid in Town
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Distributed Edge Computing: New Kid in Town

Medium-sized companies are being increasingly challenged to figure out how their product portfolios or operations can become smarter with the help of the IoT technology. A growing number of connected devices produce trillions of gigabytes of data per day (at the edge). They are facing bandwidth infrastructure limitations, growing costs for data transfer and cloud, […]

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Digital Twins: what are they and how they can help you
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Digital Twins: what are they and how they can help you

The concept of digital twins has been around since the 1970s, but more recently we’ve started to see rapid adoption of the technology in a number of scenarios. With organizations in energy, transport, manufacturing, medicine and others creating digital twins to help understand how specific processes, instruments, even people will react to changing situations. What […]

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3D Digital Twins, IoT, and the Future of Decarbonization
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3D Digital Twins, IoT, and the Future of Decarbonization

The Department of Energy reports that businesses, federal, state, and local governments own, operate, and use 93 billion square feet of U.S. real estate and account for 18 percent of U.S. primary energy use—more than all of Canada’s energy consumption. As a result, governments and private institutions are targeting commercial buildings, enacting legislation, and creating […]

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Heavy machines need heavy-duty maintenance schedules
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Heavy machines need heavy-duty maintenance schedules

It’s time to plan around unplanned downtime. From mine sites in Siberia to sugarcane plantations in central Uganda, worksites rely on heavy machines to be the workhorses that drive productivity. For the most part, the machines work well. But there’s a lot of vehicle downtime, specifically for maintenance. Maintenance is necessary for heavy machinery. It […]

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