Industry: Industrial & Manufacturing

by Andy Slote - Feb 01 2023

Companies often use “Overall Equipment Effectiveness” (OEE) as a factory metric to measure how effectively a manufacturing process runs.

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

IIoT is typically about IoT technologies that are applied in industrial environments. It is differentiated from consumer or commercial IoT applications in the sense that IIoT tends to be more…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

It would almost always be over a secure, encrypted connection. It would be very strange for it to not be. We can do anything from as simple as a static,…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

This answer differs based on how secure something needs to be. One of the facts in the security world is the more secure something is, the more of a pain…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

IoT – like any technology – is not necessarily inherently secure. But when you design a solution, you design it with security in mind. And that means using best practices,…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

There are a few different areas to protect: Access Control/Authentication – who or what has access to that data. Depending on the specific requirements of a particular solution, that might…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

This is a term that you will see spring up here and there, but it is the combination of AI (which is really Machine Learning) and IoT. It’s kind of…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

Blockchain is not directly related to IoT. It’s a technology that – in some applications – can be used as part of an IoT solution. There are a number of…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

Declarative means you are not writing “functional” or “procedural” code to do something. Instead, you are declaring what you want to happen. The main example of a declarative approach within…

by ObjectSpectrum - Jul 13 2021

Camera as a Sensor is when you use video input from a camera (which could be visible spectrum or it could be outside the visible spectrum, such as an infrared…