Protecting Employees From Covid Infection
As things are beginning to open again, I’m hearing of some more solutions for protecting employees from Covid infection. Recently I interviewed the Early on during the pandemic, I interviewed several executives who had solutions for preventing the spread of the...
GigaOm Report Highlights Data Management Tools Role Meeting Unstructured Data Challenges
You have been bombarded with analyst predictions about the gigantic quantities of data generated by the Industrial Internet of Things. Most of this is beyond the capacity and/or utility of traditional historians. Perhaps even SQL databases. This news discusses a...
AWS Announces Availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision
I have to admit amusement when IT companies discover industrial technologies and approach them from what they know—huge databases, analytics, teams of data scientists, and the like. This vision system announcement could have described how I approached selling and...
DoD 5G Deployment for Industrial Application
Apple made such a large splash with its iPhone 12 announcement hyping the coming of 5G that many people bought one and started evaluating 5G—only to be disappointed that the delta between hype and reality was huge. In this world of marketing hype we’ve lived through...
Automate Forward Keynote Speakers, Agenda Announced
This announcement for Automate Forward, the conference and trade show of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), popped into my inbox this morning. The conference part of pandemic-era events draws many excellent speakers. The technology has greatly improved...
Communication Service Providers Fail To Support 5G Needs for SMEs
By not investing enough time and resource into the SME market, CSPs are discounting an estimated $433 billion worth of 5G revenue, a significant missed opportunity for B2B 5G growth in 2021 and beyond In further small-to-medium-sized (SME) business news, here is a...
BlackBerry Bolsters Embedded Software Portfolio
I have accumulated some embedded systems news. I didn’t virtually attend the Embedded Systems Conference this year. There were a few relevant announcements. I had to overcome a severe memory lapse when I saw BlackBerry in the news, until I was reminded of the QNX...
AI plus IIoT Yields Plant Information and Visualization
Companies are sprinkling their press releases and Websites with Artificial Intelligence (AI) like sugar on your cornflakes. Now we even have Artificial Intelligence of Internet of Things—AioT. One of my favorite series of questions these days runs something like: what...
MES for Small to Medium Manufacturers
Anna reached out from Poland to comment on my Website informing me of a new MES product specifically targeted to small-to-medium-sized companies called Prodio. Eventually we set up an interview with company founder and leader Marek Mrowiec. The product is simple to...
Aruba Expands Roster of Easy-to-Deploy Workplace Safety Solutions
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, announced an expanded set of integrated, easy-to-deploy Edge and IoT solutions designed to enable organizations to bring employees back to physical workplaces safely. I am beginning to compile a number of solutions to...
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