Understanding IoT for the Factory Floor
Data “tags” are essential to any industrial process on the factory floor. They rarely leave the factory floor, but when they do, a great deal can be learned from them for operational queries such as: “What was the state of the system when the tank started leaking?”...
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5 Simple Questions to Determine if Your Company is Ready for IoT
YOU may be ready to implement IoT (Internet of Things) in your organization – but perhaps you have to sell it internally or need to justify the investment. There are 5 simple questions to determine if your company is ready for IoT. If you answer “yes” to any or all,...
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Caravela at IFAT in Munich Germany
Greetings from the other side of the world! The Caravela team is in Europe, where a meeting of the minds has been taking place in Munich, Germany at IFAT, the world’s leading trade fair for people who care about water – like us. As IoT specialists, we see a huge...
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IoT: Driving the Next Industrial Revolution
The Internet of Things (IoT) has tremendous potential to create real economic value for your business. A McKinsey Global Institute report found that proper linking of the physical and digital worlds could generate up to $11.1 trillion a year in economic value by 2025!...
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IoT for Manufacturing: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
Manufacturers have made a huge investment in embedded Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). PLCs are small computers that monitor inputs and outputs, making logic-based decisions for automated processes and/or machines, particularly valuable in manufacturing...
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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are small computers that monitor inputs and outputs, making logic-based decisions for automated processes and/or machines, particularly in manufacturing environments. PLCs are robust, reliable – and if implemented correctly – are...
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IoT Database Architecture
Why making the right strategic decisions when setting up your IoT database architecture will pay dividends in the future. Choosing the right back-end infrastructure architecture by making important initial strategic decisions will save a lot of headaches and money...
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Industrial IoT: Getting Started – IoT Architecture
Building the right IoT architecture by making some strategic decisions up front will save a lot of headaches and money down the road. Begin the process by asking yourselves a few questions to decide what types of data you need to collect to achieve your objectives....
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Industrial IoT: Getting Started – Strategic Business Planning
Assuming that the leadership of your organization has decided that connecting your product to the Internet (the Internet of Things) is a big part of its future, it’s important to make some strategic decisions very early in the process. Making them in the right order...
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Leveraging IoT for Competitive Advantage
Opponents and proponents of the Internet of Things differ vigorously as to whether its ultimate impact will be positive or negative. Both sides wholeheartedly agree on one thing, though: That the world will be enormously changed by the IoT phenomenon. Our population...
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IoT PoC for PLC Streaming Application
Caravela has an IoT Proof of Concept underway for streaming data from a traditional PLC application. We designed a 1U form factor appliance featuring Electric IMP and Intel platforms with a variety of inputs and outputs, including 4G connectivity. Our customer can...
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