IIoT | Mission Critical Magazine

Cobots Are Changing Manufacturing Forever

The market is expected to grow by 175% over the next decade

March 8, 2022

At one time, traditional workers were afraid robotic applications would take over the workplace, and, perhaps, the world.

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5G Network Slicing Will Reduce TCO in the Hyper-Connected Era

Breaking down the cost barrier

Laurent Marchand

December 10, 2021

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Tremendous infrastructure investments are needed to support the growing device and infrastructure edge demand.

Industrial Internet Consortium Technical Report Defines Framework For Distributed Edge Computing

Moving from the cloud to the edge increases performance, trustworthiness, and efficiency

October 26, 2020

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The technical report includes a structural and functional framework for distributing computing in the edge, definitions of key architectural concepts employed in distributed edge computing, essential capabilities of an edge system's elements, security and management functions, and essential interfaces for these elements.

White Papers | Implementation Aspect: IIoT and Blockchain

October 1, 2020

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Blockchain is an emerging distributed ledger technology, usually used to support tamper-proof recording of events and transactions, such as the management of digital currencies like Bitcoin.

Containerization Approaches for the IIoT

New application gateways enable low-power edge intelligence

Tim Winter

April 30, 2020

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Containerization approaches bring advantages to the operation and maintenance of systems across physical compute resources. In the enterprise IT world, containers are leveraged to decouple computational workloads from the computing substrate on which they run.

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White Paper | Software Trustworthiness Best Practices

April 15, 2020

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This paper provides a high-level overview of software trustworthiness for developers, owner-operators, and decision-makers in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. We address various aspects of creating, acquiring and protecting software. We provide practical and actionable best practices for recognizing, addressing, managing, and mitigating risks and their sources, whether developed in-house or acquired.

System Controller — Wago

March 11, 2020

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This industrial IoT (IIoT)-ready controller features two Ethernet ports and two PROFINET ports, and it is programmable with Wago’s e!COCKPIT software (CODESYS 3.5).