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Every business, in manufacturing and otherwise, is coming face to face to the reality of present day interconnected capabilities. The Industrial Internet of Things is often described as the next logical step of the industrial world: after hardware automation comes smart, data-driven, connected way of doing things. The possibilities are astounding and, for many businesses, daunting to achieve, fearful as they are of investing time and money in systems and practices they don’t really understand. Fortunately, first steps are relatively easy to make: Sensors are becoming extremely cheap, making the hardware investment very feasible. “Digital twins” are an example of intuitive, data-driven interfaces for predictive enterprise management. We’re also lowering barriers by becoming more sophisticated: Edge computing lightens the network’s costs compared to trying to eat the cake whole.
PS: Check out what Authentise is doing with IIOT – connecting printers to drive automation and insight for additive manufacturing .
Research proposes 3D printed sensors to work as warnings in extreme environmental conditions
A research team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, has published a paper proposing 3D printed disposable and wireless sensors for monitoring large areas. The proof-of-concept study shows the potential of 3D printing as a low-cost method of making fully integrated wireless sensors, which can be utilized in extreme environmental conditions such as forest fires and industrial leaks.
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Seeing double–digital twins & the future of IIoT
Digital twin technology has been trending in the news for quite a while, yet it should be no surprise that it’s in the Industrial Internet of Things where the concept of a virtual representation of a physical product or system will be the most valuable. The digital twin paradigm enables manufacturers to do two things–operate factories efficiently and gain timely insights into the performance of the products manufactured in these factories.
Read more about “Digital Twins” on Smart Industry.
Three reasons why edge architectures are critical for IIoT
[IIoT] data is only valuable if it can be accessed and acted upon quickly, efficiently and safely. Effectively accessing data can be especially challenging when you have “things” — such as sensors, devices, flow computers and more — that live on remote areas of the network. […] The data from these remote sites has the potential to generate valuable business, but is often too far away, too expensive or too insecure to transmit for time-critical operations. Edge computing devices can solve the challenge of making this data available in real time.
Read more at IoT Agenda.
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