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Applying Overall Equipment Effectiveness to Manufacturing

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

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Beauty in Science, Technology, and IoT

Firstly, a little early but Merry Christmas to all. It’s a beautiful time of year for me talk about beauty in the context of simplicity, elegance, symmetry, and information. Recently…

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How is IoT different from telemetry or M2M (machine-to-machine)?

See “what is IoT?” But in a sentence, it is different because it is the beneficiary of the proliferation of mobile devices, etc. and it has driven the price down…

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IoT Device Design Skill Sets

When starting a company or introducing a new product in the Internet of Things space, beginning with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is advisable. When the offering includes hardware, consider…

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Low-Code Platforms

There is much recent attention to low-code software platforms. A deficit of programmers is a catalyst for some of these ventures in addition to potential benefits of lower solution development…

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Machine Learning vs Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning (ML) and particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), get a lot of bad press which seems to be inspired by TV series and movies.

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Office Indoor Air Quality

We usually assume the air quality in an office environment is at least acceptable. Still, with many indoor spaces, there is often no monitoring for unacceptable conditions or the presence…

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People Tracking

One of the many applications where the Internet of Things delivers significant value is “people tracking,” which primarily refers to monitoring a physical persona rather than a digital one in…

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Security Concepts

Stories about security breaches involving Internet of Things implementations hit the news periodically, usually when the impact is significant enough to attract media attention or when the reason for the…

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Sensing

Sensors may be “at the heart” of the Internet of Things fundamentally. But, in practice, they are usually detecting events or changes in the physical environment in remote locations (“the…

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Should I use AI or ML in my solution?

Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science which focuses on the use of data and algorithms to imitate the way that humans learn, gradually improving…

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The Digital Twin

Welcome to the New Year of 2023. Could this be the year where a number of strands come together? IoT, Networks, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence to shape…

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The Public Perception of IoT

This blog post came about as the result of a question to my wife. To be fair to her, she has never had any involvement in IT, so the answer…

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Time-Series Data

All discussions about IoT data include the highly-important type known as “Time-Series,” which is, as the name implies, successive readings paired with their corresponding points in time. Potentially generating a…

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What are “things” in the Internet of Things?

It’s typically a piece of equipment or object that you are trying to remotely monitor. It could be an HVAC system or it could be a field full of corn…

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What are the advantages of no-code development environments?

There is some confusion around what people mean when they use the term “no-code” (and also “low-code”). The idea, theoretically, behind no-code is that you do not need to be…

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What exactly is an IoT Platform?

In the tech world, the word “platform” is everywhere. It’s so common; in fact, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to see consistency in use and context. The dictionary definitions of the…

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What is “cloudless IoT?”

It is an IoT solution that either does not connect to a cloud service of any kind or does not need a cloud service in order to function. So, typically…

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What is “device management”?

Device management is the ability to add a device to whatever kind of network or connectivity that device is using to communicate. That process is usually called provisioning. You are…

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What is “edge computing” and when is it needed?

Think about the “edge” as being the physical location of wherever the IoT solution is happening remotely. So, it’s not where the user is. It’s where the remote thing is….