Tag: IIoT
IIoT and the rise of the cobots
Spending on robotics among industrial companies will continue to climb over the next decade – but smaller, less costly and highly adaptable collaborative robots...
ABB innovation challenge sees six start-ups win funding
Swiss-Swedish power and automation company ABB and IdeaHub, an innovation platform, have identified six start-ups for funding via an 'innovation challenge'.
The two companies kicked...
IIoT held back by long project lead times, claims Asavie
When it comes to IIoT projects, the journey from prototype to production environment can be a long slog, new survey claims.
Over half of IT...
Machine vision: a bird’s-eye view of the smart factory
In a contributed article for Internet of Business, Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director at EU Automation, a supplier of obsolete industrial parts, discusses the role of...
Bosch makes historic investment in IoT with new wafer fab
German engineering company Bosch has placed a big bet on the future value of the IoT, with a €1 billion investment to build a...
Discovery Ag and NNNCo create rural IoT network for Australia’s farmers
Australian agritech business Discovery Ag and connectivity specialist the National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) are forming a new joint venture to develop and roll...
PTC offers free trial of ThingWorx Studio for augmented reality
PTC is offering companies a free trial of ThingWorx Studio, an augmented reality (AR) authoring and publishing toolset for industrial IoT (IIoT) environments.
ThingWorx Studio, which is...
What is the Subsea Internet of Things (SIoT)?
The IoT relies upon a data pipe – the Internet – for the connection and transmission of information. While a degree of the IoT's connectivity may...
Start-up of the month: Converge – automating industrial monitoring
Internet of Business chats with Raphael Scheps, CEO and co-founder of Converge, a London-based start-up that wants to help industrial organizations say goodbye to manual monitoring.
What does...
IIoT ambitions give rise to thriving start-up scene, says CB Insights
Smart, connected devices make plenty of headlines in the consumer world, but the IoT is also transforming heavy industry – and, in the process, fostering a thriving start-up...
Trend Micro finds 83,000 industrial robots are ‘exposed’
Industrial robotic systems are vulnerable to cyber-attacks, with 83,000 units exposed to the public-facing internet, of which thousands are not protected with authentication, according...
Schneider Electric, Accenture develop Digital Services Factory
Industrial automation company Schneider Electric and management consultancy Accenture have announced the completion of a 'virtual factory'.
Dubbed the Digital Services Factory, this new capability...