Automation & Operational Excellence

In smart manufacturing, a scalable edge platform and the ability to quickly implement business-relevant use cases are crucial for success. With Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft offers two revolutionary technologies that provide real-time insights into production. Learn how these solutions unlock the potential of use cases such as predictive maintenance, process optimization and generative AI, transforming them from concepts into real value drivers.

Many users of Google's IoT Core are currently looking for a successor to this service which will expire in August 2023. This blog post shows how Stackable's data platform can be used to create a highly scalable open-source alternative to Google's IoT Core.

Microsoft describes its IoT Operations as a “Range of modular, scalable, and highly available services” that run on Azure Arc-enabled edge Kubernetes clusters. It includes native integration of other MS services like Event Hub or Fabric, whereby the latter’s been generally available since November 2023. Our blog summarizes the new Azure service’s features and deployment.

If your company is ever to master the challenges of the Internet of Things, the one thing you must know is your IoT maturity level. Does your company have a large number of connected devices and valuable hidden data? Have you already successfully implemented IoT data analytics to create value from your processes? Do you have sufficient expertise in data storage and the management of high-performance cloud databases? All of these questions influence how you should best approach the Internet of Things.

We recently explained how you can read out machine data with an edge device, visualize it in Azure, and prepare it for further processing. This post looks at the same question – only in AWS.

Digital transformationin the Interet of Thing (IoT) pose a major challeng to many companies. The IoT apdoption framework supports transformation through a structured and technologicaly independent approach.