Internet of Things

Digital transformation is reshaping the way how people, products, assets, data, and operations are connected to create an outcome for the customers and switch digital data into the customer experience. Digital technologies create new business opportunities across the globe and enable the evolution of enterprise, products and processes for valuable capabilities. The article describes the Internet of Things concept and shows how to use cloud infrastructure to take advantage of the digital transformation in business.

Internet of Things systems have one huge advantage – they can collect lots of data. Temperature, items produced, amount of remaining liquids, humidity, machine uptime, damaged products, vehicle routes, electricity used. Based on this, we can get even more value by calculating KPIs to indicate how close to perfect our system is. Going manually through an endless stream of numbers changing every couple of hours is impossible and inefficient. The simple solution is to visualize the data by using a carefully selected chart type, that will exponentially increase its value. In this article, I want to show you the benefits of good data visualization and explain how it can be applied in your solution.

Scalability in web applications has become crucial in the past years. An ever-growing number of devices and clients, connected to the Internet, makes it difficult to handle the traffic by a single server. Scalability is a characteristic of a system that tells if expanding the resources of a server(s) will make it run faster (or handle more load).

Modern web applications that serve data and content to millions of users run in clustered environments. Dealing with a huge amount of connections at the same time requires many resources. That resources are CPU time and RAM. Each and every connection produces an additional load on the server. Having just one server would require a vast amount of resources and we already know that Moore’s Law is no longer valid. That said we need multiple servers ready to respond to users’ requests. Web applications use HTTP(S) protocol which works in the request-response communication method. Upon user’s request, the server will prepare the response and send it back. Every response needs to be processed by the server and that’s the key factor in provisioning resources for the server – requests may be different, starting from simple static data like CSS or images to more demanding like requesting data from database, filtering or calculating certain data.

The ThingWorx IoT Hub Connector is the bridge that connects the ThingWorx platform to the Azure cloud (more specifically to Azure IoT Hub). It provides secure (certificate-based) communication, thanks to which we can use the enormous possibilities of cloud computing. It is also a very extensive, but generic solution.

Synergy, this is how you can define this natural combination of technologies that will significantly affect the appearance of the future of production. Recently, in addition to the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining more and more popularity. The connection of these two technological trends heralds a real revolution in industry 4.0.

This year’s Liveworx, due to the global situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, has exceptionally been held only online. On the very first day it was announced that a new version of ThingWorx – the most popular platform maximizing the potential of the industrial Internet of Things – will be released for commercial use. According to the announcements of Joe Biron, CTO responsible for IoT technology at PTC, it is supposed to be faster, cheaper and more effective.

The evolution of artificial intelligence, as well as machine learning has gained momentum in the last few years. The constant drive to increase the computing power of computers has given the opportunity to use algorithms and mathematical apparatus created in the second half of the 20th century on an unprecedented scale. With the imminent arrival of a commercial quantum computer, we can slowly become afraid of scenes from the movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator. However, without going too far into the future, and focusing on the present, I decided to check the possibilities offered by the technology available today and whether it can be used to predict the spread of COVID-19 disease.

The Internet of Things is being used more and more, and even global giants are already using the optimization or information gathering solutions. All this to improve existing processes, acquire, process and report more data, or even introduce new services for their clients, thereby increasing sales revenue. How is the Internet of Things changing the reality of the aviation industry?

Nobody would be surprised by a statement that the Automotive industry is innovative in its nature. Cars are machines that historically revolutionized many areas of industry themselves, and today we can’t help but notice that the industry has not slowed down even for a moment and has always been focused on technological growth that serves both the business and its customers.

It might seem that the Internet of Things is dedicated only to industry. However, transport and logistics are closely connected to it, and they can also take advantage of the ongoing revolution. In the end, every industry uses transport services or logistic processes to some extent.

Industry 4.0 and its foundation, the Internet of Things (IoT – especially in industrial version: IIoT), in the last years have dominated the way of thinking of advanced management concerning manufacturing business resources.