Sensors, data and control: How the cannabis industry got high (tech) with IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCannabis growers, like other agriculturalists, are turning to internet-of-things (IoT) technologies, essentially comprising sensor devices and data analytics, to bring new efficiencies to their operations, and improve yields and profits. …
Exhaust pipes, SCADA systems and sausages: Five smart manufacturing use cases
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMomentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five more use cases from leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, check out the major new report …
Beer, cars and robots: Five smart manufacturing use cases
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMomentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five use cases from five leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, look out for the report and …
How Intel is using IIoT edge computing to reduce factory downtime by 300%
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSemiconductor maker Intel has applied predictive maintenance to monitor the health of its fan filter units (FFUs) in its semiconductor production facilities through deployment of industrial IoT (IIoT) sensors and edge …
How IoT sensors are helping predict failures and faults on German roads
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBy the Köln Ost junction on the A3 motorway in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, a group of engineers has mocked-up a 25,000 square-metre roadway network with a mash-up …
How IoT sensors are helping protect and conserve beluga whales in Alaska
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIn 2017, a natural gas leak was detected six kilometres off the coast of Nikiski in Alaska. The leak impinged on a critical habitat for endangered beluga whales. The Alaskan …
Motor cars and gas turbines: Two ‘predictive downtime’ use cases from Hitachi
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAs we have seen already, through separate discussion of Hitachi’s approach to ‘predictive quality’ and ‘dynamic scheduling’, the digital transformation of industry is multi-faceted. There is a third way, apart …
How LoRaWAN threaded IoT sensors are helping with flooding in Buenos Aires
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOn January 16, 2017, the Arroyo del Medio river, north of Buenos Aires in Argentina, broke its banks, forcing three quarters of the village of La Emilia to evacuate their …
How Deutsche Telekom’s internet-of-hives is helping German honeybees
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailTelecoms operator Deutsche Telekom has connected two beehives in the grounds of its headquarters in Bonn, in Germany, to its narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network, as it seeks to use digital technologies …
Planes, computers and books: Three ‘dynamic scheduling’ use cases from Hitachi
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThere are three strands to industrial transformation, reckons Hitachi Vantara, the digital change unit of Japanese hardware and software maker Hitachi. The point is to eliminate, or at least manage …
