Category: IoT

How to Avoid Twelve Common Industrial Ethernet Mistakes

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Whether you’re a process or plant engineer, a technician, or an electrician, if you work in an Industrial Ethernet environment, you’ve got to be an expert in a wide array of areas. When the line is down, the priority is a quick fix to get it back up and running. Sometimes these “temporary” quick fixes are put into place and forgotten until the next time the line goes down, and then you are left to fix the “fix.” Learn the twelve common Industrial Ethernet mistakes, so you can avoid them going forward.

The 3 doors of a tech-ready building

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The  stakeholders in a commercial office building space can be broken down into: 1) the building owner, 2) the cabling installer servicing a tenant in the building, and 3) the owner of the contracting firm that employs the installer. Each of the three parties can face challenges when a tenant within the building space needs even a minor cabling job completed because to tenants, connectivity is now seen as a more important amenity than parking.

Innovators wanted to develop augmented reality interfaces for first responders

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The CHARIoT Challenge, sponsored by NIST, will award over $1 million in prizes for solutions that can emulate and transmit scenario-accurate data streams for augmented reality devices that will help public-safety personnel communicate and respond more efficiently. IoT devices streaming from smart buildings, city sensors and personnel monitors could provide first responders with real-time situational awareness.
 

TIA initiates work on new Single Pair Multi-Drop (SPMD) copper cabling, component spec

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TIA’s TR-42.7 Engineering Committee on Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems (568) has issued a call for interest for document ANSI/TIA-568.6, initially titled, “Single Pair Multi-Drop (SPMD) cabling and component specifications.” The standard will address the need to support applications that use a bus topology with multiple branches connecting communication devices.

Vodafone Launch IoT Smart Surveillance Systems

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Vodafone has launched Smart Vision, a suite of IoT smart surveillance solutions designed to enhance security and drive efficiencies for business and public sector applications.The solutions operate over Vodafone’s IoT network and are 5G ready and are suited to a range of sectors including security, construction, manufacturing, utilities, retail and the public sector.

Smart Buildings – Entering a New Decade –

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Smart buildings present a set of unique challenges that building managers also have to keep in mind when implementing a solution. Here are a few specific ways connected IoT solutions will continue to drive the growth of smart buildings: creating energy-efficient management solutions; predictive maintenance; and leveraging real-time insights.

4 Things IoT is Changing for the Better

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IoT has limitless potential when it comes to its widespread impacts on various industries around the world, and we can’t wait to see what’s in store for the future. These four industries are further proof of how the increasing adoption of IoT technology will have a positive impact in the very near future: banking, design & manufacturing, healthcare, and the rise of smart cities.

5G revenue shift from humans to machines emphasizes need for adaptive service assurance

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5G is changing the main source of revenue for communications service providers (CSPs). With 4G, most revenue came from cellphone subscriptions. But connected devices—many tied to Industry 4.0 applications like remote patient monitoring and synchronized production-line robots—are expected to drive 95% of new revenues in the 5G era (Ericsson, 2017). This will ramp up quickly; GSMA predicts there will be five times more connected devices than humans by 2025 (2019 stat).