
Should utilities be like Amazon and Netflix? The intelligent edge, and where it’s going (Reader Forum)
Why can’t utilities be more like Netflix or Amazon? It’s a question you see posed in a growing number of articles and analyst reports, arguing that utilities should be more …

Maya HTT teams up with OSIsoft to bring building OS to airports and hospitals
Technology that was designed for optimising data centres is being applied to power distribution in airports and hospitals. Canadian infrastructure management firm Maya Heat Transfer Technologies (HTT) has repackaged its …

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change
This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 3): Use case modelling
This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 2): An alternative truth
This article is the second instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …

Abu-Dhabi district cooling firm Tabreed chooses OSIsoft for digital transformation
Abu Dhabi-based district cooling giant Tabreed has integrated California based OSIsoft’s big-data analytics system across its network of 74 district cooling plants to monitor, analyse, and improve performance and reliability. …

Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos
The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. …

OSIsoft brings PI System to AWS with ‘quick start’ and ‘integration’ tools
OSIsoft’s PI System is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company has launched a suite of products to enable industrial players to more easily run and manage its …

Caterpillar and OSIsoft debut AI platform to reduce costs for shipping industry
The marine division of US machinery and equipment maker Caterpillar has integrated OSIsoft’s data management system into its industrial artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help shipping companies reduce fuel and …

Investor confidence rises as venture capital funds start to flow into IIoT market
Investor confidence in the burgeoning industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market is up, reckon industry commentators. A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the sector’s growth in …