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Arlen Nipper
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OpinionHow IIoT Enables AI and Big Data
Leveraging open standards like MQTT Sparkplug facilitates data modeling and self-discovery, establishing a source of truth at the edge. -
FeatureMQTT and Sparkplug 3.0: The Future of Industrial OT-IT Integration
Technologists should understand why MQTT, why Sparkplug and how they work together to enable OT-IT integration. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023: IIoT & Industry 4.0. -
OpinionMQTT and Sparkplug 3.0: The Future of Industrial OT-IT Integration
Twenty-five years ago when I sat down with Andy Sanford Clark and invented MQTT, I couldn’t have imagined it would become the future of Industrial OT-IT integration, Arlen Nipper writes. -
FeatureSolving Communication Roadblocks with Immutable Data Records
Today with the power of MQTT, records of data can be published, on event, as an immutable data record which automatically builds and populates a table within a database. An immutable data record is a set of values that has a security checksum wrapped around it for protection and validation. -
OpinionIndustrial Digital Transformation Made Easy with MQTT
By Arlen Nipper This article will look at the problems with proprietary manufacturing protocols and discuss how the open-standard MQTT can enable Digital Transformation.