As enterprise buildings and campuses grow more intelligent (think IoT, building automation and network convergence), facility and network managers are deploying massive numbers of new devices, sensors, controllers, and other devices. The challenge is adapting the data and power cabling infrastructure to keep it efficient, capable and flexible.
From the factory to the field: AgTech comes of age
With the world’s population on track to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, farmers will need to grow twice the amount of food they do today to avoid scarcity issues and social disruption. Agriculture technology or “AgTech” will play a pivotal role in alleviating the building pressure on farmers to produce more by providing improved control and real-time data insights of farming operations for more efficient management of crops, resources, and livestock.
A product of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), AgTech refers to the use of connected technology in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture. It empowers farmers to operate “smarter,” leading to higher revenues, lower costs, and increased margins. Like the IIoT, AgTech seeks to do more with less in leveraging a cross-section of networked devices to uncover ways to boost productivity without burdening already overtaxed natural resources.
Scaling enterprise IoT solutions using edge computing and the cloud
Enterprises are increasingly complementing their cloud-based IoT solutions with edge computing to accelerate the pace of data analysis and make better decisions, faster.
White Paper: Solving Edge Computing Infrastructure Challenges
Edge computing installations have become increasingly business critical. Deploying and operating IT at the edge of the network comes with unique challenges. Solving them requires a departure from the traditional means of selecting, configuring, assembling, operating, and maintaining these systems.
This paper describes a new emerging model that involves an integrated ecosystem of cooperative partners, vendors, and end users. This ecosystem and the integrated micro data center solution it produces, help mitigate the unique challenges of edge applications. Download this white paper to help mitigate edge challenges.
Edge Computing: Edge Computing: key trends and focus areas for the CIOs, CIO News, ET CIO
Edge Computing: The growth of IoT and the empowerment of real-time analysis in edge devices are helping to create a new era of technological efficiency, cost control, and security. That’s a great value proposition for businesses that want to stay competitive and lead their markets.
Researchers create an algorithm that maximizes IoT sensor inference accuracy using edge computing
We are in a fascinating era where even low-resource devices, such as Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, can use deep learning algorithms to tackle complex problems such as image classification or natural language processing (the branch of artificial intelligence that deals with giving computers the ability to understand spoken and written language in the same way as humans).
Why smart building networks also need resiliency
Without the right plan, integrating smart technologies into a new or existing building can be a major challenge. At its core, a building’s consolidated IT/OT network serves as the foundation on which all smart technologies are layered. Because of this, resiliency must be designed and managed from the network up.
Standards for intelligent building communications systems emphasize performance and flexibility
While several aspects of smart building operation may be regarded like the Wild West, with rules and standards undefined, multiple generations of standards already exist for the communications cabling systems serving these properties.
Single Pair Ethernet on its way into the smart building
SPE offers the security that many purpose-built systems lack, and is optimized to reduce labor and materials costs in a network’s physical layer.
Single Pair Ethernet: The Evolution of Automation Device Communications
This presentation, from the Fall 2022 BICSI Conference, discusses why SPE technology is important to Building Automation Systems, provides an overview of standards and applications, and an update on SPE development.
