Future industrial IoT solutions will rely on an ecosystem of industrial intelligence to marry sensor data and insight with actionable improvement and optimization of operations. Sensors in industrial robotics are streamlining manufacturing and logistics industries through greater automation.

Industrial Wireless enables secure and reliable wireless connections for industrial applications. Depending on requirements, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 are continuing to provide excellent solutions. Industrial 5G is also making an impact by enabling smarter, responsive, and more efficient factory operations.

Artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing and industrial cybersecurity are just some of the technology megatrends that are driving the latest innovations in Industrial Ethernet solutions. Read how industry experts view the newest trends, unique capabilities and the latest solutions for smart manufacturing.

An overview of wireless standards assesses the suitability of BLE, SmartMesh (6LoWPAN over IEEE 802.15.4e), and Thread/Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) for use in industrial harsh RF environments. SmartMesh has superior reliability and low power operation compared to BLE and Thread/Zigbee.

Concurrent Connections do not solve all the problems of systems that require high availability, but they are an important building block of such systems. Concurrent Connections provides a standardized communication protocol that helps enable high availability systems.

Data science is still a young field, but it is being incorporated into systems more each day. The goal is to maximize value by enabling data scientists as many capabilities as possible, and not frustrating them with limited capabilities.

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), since its standardization in 2016, has been moving forward to revolutionize industrial communication by providing deterministic data transmission, precise time synchronization, and traffic prioritization, which are critical for real-time industrial applications.

The process industry is facing the challenging task of increasing the efficiency of its systems, reducing production costs and ensuring the safety of people and the environment. This is leading to innovative approaches when developing new field devices and upgrading existing ones in the process industry.

Like many networking techniques, VLANs have made their way to industrial facilities. In this article, we’ll examine the many advantages VLANs bring to industrial environments. In this environment, VLANs emerge as a key tool by meeting the dual needs of network administrators for traffic management and security.

Preventing power surges is the leading cause of serial device server failures. Industrial automation systems can be complicated enough as it is without an additional requirement to deploy, maintain, and support yet another device just to provide serial line surge protection.