Articles & News on IIoT

How IoT-Enabled Condition Monitoring Technology Keeps Produce Safe

  • by Guy Yehiav
  • January 3, 2024
  • Feature

Condition monitoring technology represents the future of food safety. It’s a critical tool today that will continue driving pathways for improvement tomorrow.

AI to Lead the Way in Combating Manufacturing Challenges

  • by Aaron Merkin & Ankush Malhotra
  • December 26, 2023
  • Feature

In 2024, we’ll see more condition monitoring complimented by AI assistive systems deployed across the plant, and this should help SME’s with lower entry levels to this technology.

Soft Solutions for Hard Problems: What’s Coming in 2024

  • by Nick Leonard
  • December 22, 2023
  • Feature

The lessons we learned in 2023 will carry the automation market forward into 2024, with an emphasis on digitalization continuing and driving the need for data interoperability, specialized labor in IT and the expanded adoption of automation across other verticals.

Patti Engineering's Partnership with Arduino Enables Cost-Effective Digitalization

  • December 21, 2023
  • News

This collaboration is set to drive innovation, reduce costs and accelerate project timelines for commercial solutions in various sectors, including manufacturing and logistics.

Understanding Standards-based Safety System Design

  • by Linda Caron
  • December 14, 2023
  • Feature

Regardless of the products selected for a safety circuit, the machine designer is responsible for ensuring compliance with the standards. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023: IIoT & Industry 4.0.

Sensor Technology for Machine Health Monitoring

  • by Matthew Negaard
  • December 13, 2023
  • Feature

A comparison of piezoelectric and MEMS technology for early detection of bearing faults. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023: IIoT & Industry 4.0.

How Primary Lithium Batteries Can Achieve Ultra Long Life

  • by Sol Jacobs
  • December 12, 2023
  • Feature

To avoid costly replacement, the ideal battery will last as long as the device. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023: IIoT & Industry 4.0.

MQTT and Sparkplug 3.0: The Future of Industrial OT-IT Integration

  • by Arlen Nipper
  • December 11, 2023
  • Feature

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.

How the Wiegand Effect Helps Create Energy-Harvesting IIoT Devices

  • by Tobias Best
  • December 8, 2023
  • Feature

Research promises a new generation of self-contained, zero-maintenance, wireless sensors designed to operate as nodes on emerging IIoT networks. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023: IIoT & Industry 4.0.

The Evolution of Edge Computing: Transforming Industries with Real-Time Insights

  • by Rudy de Anda
  • December 5, 2023
  • Feature

Edge computing is empowering AI embedded applications and IoT to accelerate time to value for digital transformation initiatives. By 2023, according to IDC, more than half of new enterprise IT infrastructure will be at the edge.

Universal Robots Expands Partnership with MathWorks by Joining Connections Program

  • April 9, 2024
  • News

Universal Robots has strengthened its partnership with MathWorks by joining the Mathworks Connections Program.

The Integration of the IIoT and AI in Smart Factories

  • by Roshen Gajanan Borkar
  • April 8, 2024
  • Feature

The Smart Factory, characterized by several exciting technologies, is at the center of the revolution brought by the integration of the IIoT and AI.

Universal Automation: Enabling Systems Integrators with a Paradigm Shift in Industrial Automation

  • by Fabrice Jadot
  • April 3, 2024
  • Feature

For system integrators, the adoption of universal automation brings unprecedented engineering efficiency, process scalability and automation agility to OT systems.

HANNOVER MESSE: Premiere for the Embedded Park

  • March 28, 2024
  • News

The latest technologies and developments on the subject Embedded will be presented, ranging from edge computing, embedded vision, software solutions, components and modules to electronic displays.

Nozomi Networks Extends Partnership with Yokogawa to Deliver OT and IoT Security Services Worldwide

  • March 28, 2024
  • News

Nozomi Networks OT and IoT visibility and threat detection capabilities now part of Yokogawa’s Cybersecurity Managed Services offered to customers in 60 countries worldwide.

What Do IIoT Solutions Look Like?

  • by Roy Kok
  • March 27, 2024
  • Feature

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) presents a wealth of opportunities for manufacturing companies to improve their operations and competitiveness.

IIoT Gateway and Digitalization Trends

  • by Oliver Wang
  • March 26, 2024
  • Feature

Users want direct control of data and digitalization platforms, and greater compute power at the edge. This feature originally appeared in the March edition of AUTOMATION 2024: IIoT and Digital Transformation.

The DDS Foundation Announces 20th Anniversary of the DDS Specification

  • March 25, 2024
  • News

The DDS Foundation announced the 20th anniversary of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Specification.

The Eclipse Foundation Unveils 2023 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey Insights

  • March 25, 2024
  • News

The 5th annual survey report reveals key trends, challenges and strategies, including an increased enterprise reliance on open-source technologies to accelerate IoT and edge computing adoption.

IIoT and Digital Transformation in 2024: A Q1 Automation.com Roundup

  • by Melissa Landon
  • March 20, 2024
  • Feature

Check out the list of IIoT and digital transformation-themed features, news pieces and product postings that were posted on Automation.com in Q1 of 2024.