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.