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Adapting Ethernet to Accelerate Industry 4.0

On May 19, 2023 in All, Automation, General, Industrial, IoT, Robotics, Sensors by Steven Keeping

Industry 4.0 promises to revolutionize the factory through smart technology. Yet it can be expensive to install, scale, and maintain. A new form of Industrial Ethernet, using single twisted pair cables, promises to cut costs and ease installation while also promising interoperability across design, procurement, and manufacture.

New Tech Tuesdays: Single Pair Ethernet: The Future of Industrial Automation

On April 25, 2023 in All, Automation, Automotive, Connectors, General, Industrial, IoT, Lighting, Low Power, New Tech Tuesdays, Sensors by Rudy Ramos

SPE is a new technology that is rapidly gaining popularity as a cost-effective, reliable, and high-speed alternative to standard Ethernet for industrial automation and automotive applications using only one pair of twisted copper wires to transmit data, power, and control signals.

How the IIoT Enables the Smart Factory

On August 4, 2022 in All, Automation, General, Industrial, IoT, Robotics by Adam Kimmel

Surprisingly, it is not technology or even web-based services leading to the adoption of connected technology. It’s industrial manufacturing. Let’s look at the characteristics, benefits, and challenges of the smart factory.

Tagged With: automation, iiot, industrial, manufacturing, smart factories

Gateway Implementations with RISC-V

On March 4, 2022 in All, Computing, Dev Tools, EIT 2022, General, Industrial, IoT by Alex Pluemer

The Industrial Internet of Things and its use cases that implement gateways and routers expands every day. The Terasic T-Core FPGA MAX 10 Development Board can be a catalyst for that expansion.

Tagged With: connectivity, data, gateway, gateways, iiot, implementations, networking, processing, protocols, risc-v, routers

How Single Pair Ethernet Is Becoming the DNA of IIoT

On September 11, 2020 in All, Computing, Industrial, IoT by Verena Neuhaus

Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is quickly becoming a mega-trend in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Here, we explore SPE, its advantages, how it is transforming industrial data transmission, and how SPE supports the future of industrial network technology.

PLCnext Technology…Open to the Future

On August 13, 2020 in All, Computing, IoT, Open Source by Yuri Chamarelli

PLCnext, a customizable open-control platform, enables engineers to run previously incompatible programming languages simultaneously. Learn how PLCnext gives an unprecedented amount of flexibility that organizations can harness to meet the challenges of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) revolution.

The Future of IIoT Connectivity

On August 5, 2020 in All, General, IoT, Wireless by Marcel Consée

With Industry 4.0 being deployed in almost all production environments and the unique challenges of Industry 5.0 looming on the horizon, industrial applications demand high-speed ruggedized connectors. Learn how the ix Industrial™ connectors support next-generation Industrial Ethernet communication designs.

Tankfull: An IoT Experimentation Platform

On January 29, 2020 in All, IoT by Mike Parks

Learn how the Tankfull IIoT Demonstration Platform leverages the electronic hardware and IoT cloud software that support real-world remote monitoring and control of industrial equipment across the globe to provide analytics and visualizations to plant operators.

Tagged With: Digi, Digi Connect Sensor+, IIoT, IoT, Medium One, Tankfull

Speeding Machine Vision Development and Deployment

On July 24, 2019 in All, Dev Tools, Industrial, IoT by Robert Huntley

Machine vision is a fundamental part of many industrial manufacturing and process automation implementations. FPGAs are ideally suited to the task of image and video processing, and the Microsemi/Microchip PolarFire FPGA Video and Imaging Kit is an ideal platform on which to base your next design.

News from the Industrial Internet Consortium / OpenFog

On April 19, 2019 in All, Computing, Industrial, IoT by Charles Byers

The OpenFog Consortium recently joined forces with the Industrial Internet Consortium, producing a powerhouse of edge-fog thought and architecture. This blog describes the motivations for joining forces, markets and applications served, and thoughts about the future of edge-fog computing in IoT networks.

Tagged With: Distributed systems, Edge computing, Fog computing, IIC, IIoT, Industrial Internet, IoT, OpenFog

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