What Is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)? The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) refers to the integration of connected devices, sensors, and advanced analytics in industrial environments to ...

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The Internet of Things is just around the corner, and somehow or another, all these bits of intelligent dust and juice bag squeezers will have to talk to one another. One of the better ways to get IoT ...

Simple graphic illustrating MQTT's publish/subscribe method that allows for applications to be decoupled from devices. Beyond OPC UA’s solid stance as the most widely recognized and used protocol ...

This first installment in a four-part series on key industrial network technologies explains how an ultra lightweight data transfer protocol became a widely used data gathering tool for Internet of ...

HiveMQ CTO weighs in on why MQTT is picking up steam for enterprise IoT deployments in factory automation, logistics, and pharmaceutical workflows. Key drivers include a unified namespace and tested ...

So you’ve built a central server and filled your house with WiFi-connected nodes all speaking to each other using the MQTT protocol. In short, you’ve got the machine-to-machine side of things entirely ...

The world is instrumented with sensors, and we’re just now realizing what we can do with this information and how we can apply analytics to help people make the right decisions for their business. The ...

A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author ...

Although industrial control systems have switched from analog to digital many decades ago, the problem of having multiple proprietary protocols preventing these systems from properly integrating with ...