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.
PTC is phasing out its Axeda platform. Although they look similar at first sight, Axeda and ThingWorx differ very much in capabilities.
While ago, PTC announced a new release of ThingWorx Platform (8.4). Among other exciting features, this release has OOTB support for integration with InfluxDB.