Impact to large-scale implementations: Smart factories and smart cities
· Cybersecurity

Impact to large-scale implementations: Smart factories and smart cities

In this article we discuss how insecure deployments and the lack of well-defined security in M2M technology can be abused to turn into unforeseen problems in critical and large-scale environments like smart factories and cities.M2M technology forms the core of IIoT systems for maintaining smart factories and building smart cities. As more of these connected […]

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4 Things Asset Tracking Won’t Do (and a few it will)
· Connected Industry

4 Things Asset Tracking Won’t Do (and a few it will)

Asset tracking is a big topic, with more than a little relevance to the Industrial Internet of Things. Although it can do quite a bit for your business, it won’t solve every problem. Also, even the best implementation of the best system might need some clever integration to reach its highest value, and even that […]

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The Cyber Risk to a Critical Part of Our Economy and Supply Chain: Commercial Trucking
· Cybersecurity

The Cyber Risk to a Critical Part of Our Economy and Supply Chain: Commercial Trucking

12 million trucks, or about 5% of vehicles on U.S. roads, are aggregated into fleets for government or commercial use. About 42% of these are connected with telematics Fleet Management System (FMS) for efficiency and compliance with government Electronic Logging Data (ELD) requirements. Typical FMS data captured includes miles driven, time of day, Global Positioning System […]

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Three key ways to ensure that implementing IIoT goes off smoothly
· Connected Industry

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
· Connected Industry

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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AI – Putting the “Smart” in Smart Lighting Solutions
· Smart Cities

AI – Putting the “Smart” in Smart Lighting Solutions

In the realm of IoT, smart lighting seems so last year – people tend to think that the only feature of a smart light is the ability to remotely turn on and off the light, which is something that people just expect now in a smart device.  However, remotely controlling a light is just the beginning of possibilities […]

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Siemens Board Level Perspectives on IIoT & Blockchain
· Connected Industry

Siemens Board Level Perspectives on IIoT & Blockchain

Recently, Lucian Fogoros, Co-founder and Managing Director of IIoT World, interviewed Klaus Helmrich, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Digital Industries. Some of the questions we asked were crowdsourced. Lucian Fogoros: Industry 4.0 is today mostly about customization of products – how does Siemens see customization opportunities in Industry 4.0 without a […]

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Finding Security in an IIoT Driven World
· Cybersecurity

Finding Security in an IIoT Driven World

It wasn’t that long ago that IIoT sounded out of reach. Who would have imagined we could control our home’s thermostat or turn on the sprinklers from anywhere in the world? The truth is, while it may seem we are living in a highly connected world, this is just the tip of the iceberg. In […]

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