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IIoT Top News: The Future of Utilities

February 5, 2016

As utility companies continue to track usage, consumers are growing equally cognizant of individual energy use as well, especially with the growth of private alternative

Utilities: Where Data Flows Like Water at the Speed of Light

February 1, 2016

(Image courtesy Flickr Creative Commons) More than a decade ago, the choices were few to address the needs of data gathering and recording. Water and wastewater utilities,

Remote Wi-Fi: Enabling Wireless Video Transport

January 28, 2016

(Image courtesy Flickr Creative Commons) The topic is not new, but it is increasingly common in conversations with customers and potential users of wireless networks for M2M

Solving The Challenges of Remote Wi-Fi in the Industrial Internet of Things

January 26, 2016

Most of us can relate to the frustration of when the Wi-Fi is down, or running slowly, or if we travel away from an established

IIoT Top News: Wireless and Wi-Fi

January 22, 2016

Gone are the days of limited connectivity—at least that’s the plan this year. According to Wireless Design Magazine, The Broadband Alliance has announced plans to hosts

Can You Hear Me Now? Remote Wi-Fi in the Connected World

January 20, 2016

(Image courtesy of Tony Webster, via Flickr Creative Commons) One of the more fascinating aspects of our eternal march toward ‘the future’ is the occasional,

IIoT Top News: CES 2016 & the Fate of IoT

January 15, 2016

All eyes appeared to be on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 in Las Vegas since last week, as more than 3,600 companies unveiled the IoT and

Earth-Shaking: Resiliency & Smart Infrastructure Lead Seismic Monitoring Efforts

January 13, 2016

Seismic monitoring tends to pop up in the news only during disaster situations, or, more recently, in conjunction with North Korea’s possible detonation of a hydrogen

IIoT Top News: 2015 News Round-Up

January 8, 2016

Let’s take a moment and appreciate the excitement 2015 brought for the IIoT: As we look back at the top articles from the year, we

IIoT Top News: IIoT Predictions and Innovations for 2015-2016

December 28, 2015

As we inch our way closer to the New Year, we would like to take a moment and appreciate some of the technological advancements of

Guest Post: IHS Predicts IIoT Cybersecurity Will Increasingly Be Implemented in Hardware

December 21, 2015

By Sam Lucero, Sr. Principal Analyst, M2M & IoT at IHS Technology IIoT & Cybersecurity As IIoT systems create ever more critical dependencies in plant, energy infrastructure,

IIoT Bold Prediction Series Part 5: Discrete RF Manufacturers Obsolete in Three Years

December 18, 2015

What a week it has been for the connected world! As we grow closer to the end of 2015, there are plenty of movers and

IIoT Bold Prediction Series Part 4: New Networking Protocol Changes IoT Connectivity

December 17, 2015

Before we move on to the next prediction in our IIoT Predictions series, let’s take a quick look back at the first three: A major

IIoT Bold Prediction Series Part 3: Predictive Analytics Alters Fundamental IT/OT Practices

December 16, 2015

So far, our series of IIoT Bold Predictions for 2016 has focused on the concepts of IIoT security and government’s regulatory role in the development of IoT and IIoT

IIoT Bold Prediction Series Part 2: Government Regulations Coming

December 15, 2015

Yesterday, we kicked the 2016 IIoT Bold Prediction Series off with a bang! As a nice follow-up, and second iteration of the series, Tim Mester, Principal

Announcing the 2016 IIoT Bold Prediction Series!

December 14, 2015

The year 2015 is soon coming to an end as the year 2016 looks to be ushering in exciting new ways in which the Internet

IT Security Dynamics and the Industrial IoT

December 8, 2015

The quest to understand production and operational factors, distribute this information to business systems and people within an organization, and directly improve business processes and

IIoT Top News: Manufacturing Today and Tomorrow

December 4, 2015

The age of manufacturing is moving past the dusty, oversized, broken-down warehouse located on the edge of town and into industrial 4.0. This new technological

Today’s IIoT Security Challenges

November 30, 2015

For decades, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have played a significant role in industrial operations. Industries like oil and gas, electric power/smart grid,

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