The IoT M2M Council — which claims to be the largest trade group serving the IoT community — will stage a full two-day conference for industrial users, online. The, free, Industrial IoT Online Summit will be held 10:00 to 16:00 hours Eastern Daylight Time (US) on 22 and 23 April 2020, but registered participants will […]
Heavy industries struggling to realise full potential of IoT
Software AG has surveyed 125 North American manufacturers primarily in the heavy industry and automotive sectors and says it shows they are unable to scale their industrial IoT investments across their enterprises. As a result, it says they are losing millions of dollars in potential profits, and falling behind competitors that have invested in enabling […]
IIC aims to accelerate industrial IoT adoption
The US-based Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has launched the IIC Accelerator Program, a set of initiatives designed to stimulate industrial IoT adoption and help IT and OT users solve business problems. IIC says the initiatives will appeal to end users of IoT technology who want to discuss challenges with their peers, get advice from IIC […]
Gartner finds industrial IoT platform market leaderless
Gartner has issued its Magic Quadrant for industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms. It puts PTC with its Thingworx platform and Software AG’s Cumulocity ahead of the pack in the ‘visionaries’ quadrant, followed by Hitachi’s Lumada platform, but none of offerings assessed made it into the leaders or the challengers quadrants. Gartner defines an in IIoT platform […]
IIC offers tool to assess industrial IoT maturity
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has released a web-based tool to enable users to better understand their enterprise IIoT maturity. It says its IIoT Maturity Assessment helps organisations become best-practice adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage and governance of IIoT within their organisations. The co-chair of […]
IDC estimates IoT data at 80 zettabytes by 2025
IDC has issued a new forecast for IoT saying it estimates there will be 41.6b IoT devices connected to the Internet by 2025 generating 79.4 zettabytes (1021 bytes) of data — the bulk of it from video surveillance applications — representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.7 percent from 2018. IDC says industrial […]
ioTium, the SDN for IIoT company, opens Australian office
US based startup ioTium, which describes itself as “the first commercially deployed software-defined converged infrastructure company for the Industrial Internet of Things,” has opened an office in Australia, appointing Lee Burrows as APAC director. Prior to joining ioTium, Gold Coast based Burrows spent 16 years with Siemens Electric, most recently as sales director for the […]
Siemens teams with Aruba to merge OT and IT
Siemens and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s networking subsidiary Aruba have formed a strategic partnership promising to bridge the worlds of operational technology and information technology – one of the biggest challenges facing industrial IoT and industry 4.0. The two companies says their complementary product portfolios will enable them to “support customers with highly reliable, secure and […]
Nokia’s challenge: change the world with IIoT
Nokia has launched its sixth annual Nokia Open Innovation Challenge (NOIC), an annual global competition that “seeks innovative technologies, products and solutions that can change the world.” This year the focus is on industrial automation and the industrial Internet of Things. The competition is administered by Nokia Bell Labs in partnership with venture capital firm […]
Global supply chain revenues to be boosted by IIoT
Global mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has released a study IIoT on Land and at Sea that, it says, suggests organisations across the global supply chain, expect industrial IoT to increase their annual revenues by 10 percent within five years. “There will be significantly increased automation and operational efficiency through the use of real time data and […]
