By Stan Schneider, CEO, Real-Time Innovations Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Stools. Anyone remember this? For most, that is probably gibberish. But not for me. This mnemonic helps me remember the taxonomy of life: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. The breadth and depth and variety of life... Read more →
09/02/2015
A Taxonomy for the IIoT
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08/25/2015
Introducing the Asset Efficiency Testbed
By Dr. Richard Soley, Executive Director, Industrial Internet Consortium On a recent trip home from a business meeting in Washington DC, I experienced the (all-too-frequent) frustration of having my flight delayed. After boarding the flight and sitting at the gate for almost an hour, the pilot announced that we would... Read more →
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07/27/2015
The Promise of the Industrial Internet of Things
By Gregory Conary, Senior Vice President of Strategy for the Industry Business, Schneider Electric On Schneider Electric's blog, I have written about our Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) strategy, where we stand on the topic and how we are ensuring the value of what we are doing in this space... Read more →
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07/21/2015
Introducing the Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Testbed
This post originally appeared on IBM's Smarter Planet blog Jamie Smith, Director of Product Marketing, Embedded Systems, National Instruments Sky Matthews, Chief Technology Officer, Internet of Things, IBM Organizations in the industrial sector - energy, water utilities, oil & gas, manufacturing, mining and transportation - have a lot of pre-existing... Read more →
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07/14/2015
The 7 Principles of the Internet of Things (IoT)
By Dr. Tom Bradicich, VP of Server Engineering at Hewlett-Packard Recently I was honored to deliver the keynote speech at the Industrial Internet Consortium’s Energy Summit, hosted on the HP campus in Houston, where delegates from a number of companies gathered to explore how the Industrial Internet is transforming various... Read more →
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06/24/2015
Industrial Automation is Ready for the Internet of Things
By Todd Snide, Group Senior Expert, Schneider Electric The Internet of Things is coming and in some industries is already here but is in its infancy. Industrial Automation is ahead of most other industries in the readiness for the Internet of Things (IoT) and more specifically for the Industrial Internet... Read more →
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06/17/2015
The Industrial Internet Reference Architecture: A Milestone on the Path to IoT Interoperability
By the co-chairs of the Industrial Internet Consortium Technology Working Group Dr. Shi-Wan Lin is a Principal Engineer with the Strategy and Technology Office under the Internet of Things Group at Intel Bradford Miller is a Senior Scientist at GE Global Research The first release of the Industrial Internet Reference... Read more →
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05/05/2015
The Bottom Line for Enterprise IoT – Business Value from Ubiquitous Data
By Steve Jennis, SVP, PrismTech Analysts and forecasters are predicting extremely high market growth rates for the IoT and often they are referencing enterprise/industrial applications rather than consumer products. But how can these predicted growth levels be justified when for many years islands-of-automation and domain-specific integrated systems have already provided... Read more →
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04/28/2015
#IIC24 – The Industrial Internet’s Impact on the Workforce
By Julie Pike, Sr PR Specialist, Industrial Internet Consortium In honor of Internet of Things Day on Thursday, April 9th, the Industrial Internet Consortium hosted a 24-hour global TweetChat. During the chat, we covered many aspects of creating and deploying Industrial Internet solutions: from innovation and industry standards to impact... Read more →
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04/21/2015
Interoperability in the Disconnected World of Connected Things
By Eric Openshaw, Vice Chairman and U.S. Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Leader, Deloitte LLP I think we can all agree that the real value of all the data captured by Internet of Things devices and sensors hinges on being able to connect it with other data across disparate systems... Read more →
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04/17/2015
Security for the Industrial Internet – Where Are We Going?
By Jason Garbis, Director of Product Marketing, RSA, The Security Division of EMC I recently attended the quarterly face-to-face meeting of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) - a rapidly growing organization dedicated to identifying, assembling, and promoting best practices for the industrial internet. This organization, which just celebrated its 1-year... Read more →
04/14/2015
Why are System Integrators So Hyped About the IoT?
By Steve Jennis, SVP, PrismTech Global scale, with legacy sub-systems, cloud services, connected edge-devices, Fog Computing concepts, OT/IT alignment, Enterprise/Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems present a new challenge in terms of interoperability, end-to-end performance and security. Who will deliver them? Of course if everything were plug-and-play out-of-the-box we wouldn't have such... Read more →
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03/26/2015
Standing at the Doorway to the Next Industrial Revolution
By William Ruh, Vice President, GE When the Industrial Internet Consortium was launched last year, our goal was bringing together organizations to accelerate the growth of a new ecosystem for connecting smart machines, advanced analytics and people at work. It’s an understatement to say that I’m delighted by the progress... Read more →
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03/19/2015
Industrial Internet and the Emergence of the Outcome Economy
By Dadong Wan, Accenture Technology Labs Fellow, Accenture One of the key findings from the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) […]... Read more →
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03/05/2015
IoT Standards: The Cart Before the Horse?
By Eric Openshaw, Vice Chairman and U.S. Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Leader, Deloitte LLP My Deloitte colleagues and I recently hosted 20 Internet of Things executives and thought leaders, including Dr. Richard Soley, executive director of the Industrial Internet Consortium, at our second Internet of Things Workshop in San... Read more →
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03/02/2015
How Will the Enterprise/Industrial IoT (IIoT) Add Value Over Traditional OT and IT Systems?
By Steve Jennis, SVP, PrismTech Higher-level insights, cross-domain integration and global-scale data access via the IIoT can enhance tactical OT and IT systems to provide new revenue opportunities, lower costs and additional environmental benefits. Corporate IT systems have increasingly embraced the web, the cloud and mobility over the past decade... Read more →
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