(Featured image source: Bosch)

Supply chain traceability is as important as ever

The digital supply chain market is being disrupted rapidly. On November 14, 2022, Microsoft introduced its Supply Chain Platform enabling organizations such as Daimler to improve product traceability. Two weeks later, Amazon announced AWS Supply Chain as a response to [...]

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Preventive maintenance to minimize repairs

Annually, NYC office workers waste 16.6 years waiting for elevators. Additional 5.9 years are spent stuck in an elevator shaft. While buildings are getting higher, the problem escalates. It is also accompanied by other issues, such as increased energy consumption, especially during peak hours.

These problems are [...]

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Addressing the issues in IoT

The number of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing at an exponential rate, reported to have reached more than 8 billion in 2017. Moreover, the figure is expected to increase up to 20 billion by 2020. The implications are already evident [...]

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On-premises asset performance management

Asset Performance Management (APM) plays a vital role in the world of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). APM builds on the concept of digital twins and adds advanced analytics to view the health of assets (machine and equipment) in real time—minimizing unplanned downtimes, monitoring changing risk conditions, [...]

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Aviation adopts IoT and blockchain

Recently, we’ve posted a story about the potential of combining the blockchain technology and IoT into an IoT-driven blockchain. This combination is being recognized as a winning adoption by the aviation industry. In that story, we highlighted the industries and scenarios that could benefit from the [...]

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Transformation with blockchain

In almost any industry, an organization’s bottom line is affected by the efficiency of its supply chain. The supply chain’s effectiveness, in turn, is then influenced by factors both predictable and unpredictable. Thus, an organization’s ability to manage and react to these events have a direct effect on [...]

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The lack of real-time monitoring in IIoT

John Speck

Operational Technology (OT) comprises the hardware and software systems that monitor and control physical equipment. It includes devices, sensors, and software that identify and detect a change in physical devices, processes, and events within an enterprise IT infrastructure.

Correlating data from Operational [...]

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Mobile ubiquity

The growth of data within enterprise IT is doubling about every three years. Looking at the big picture, we can see that the zettabyte (one million petabytes) being carried by the Internet in 2016 will increase a magnitude to one thousand zettabytes (called a yottabyte) around the year 2040. [...]

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What is a digital twin?

Research into the pairing of digital and physical objects into something called a digital twin was introduced by NASA and the U.S. Air Force. The concept was first conceived by Michael Grieves of the University of Michigan in 2002.

They define a digital twin as “an integrated [...]

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Machine learning marches its way into a more and more broader pool of industries. The capabilities of TensorFlow are applied to an array of tasks from predicting wildfires to generating content.

At the recent meetup in San Francisco, the attendees learnt what pitfalls may come up when developing a rendering image [...]

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