As renewable energy from sources including wind, solar and hydro becomes a reality rather than just an alternative for most of us in the future, we can only hope that IoT and related technologies will become the tools of choice in driving change towards more sustainable energy future.

This Connectivity Showcase presents the viewpoints of eight industry experts. With Factory Automation Connectivity Solutions, manufacturers are collecting data in real-time to monitor, track, and optimize production processes, and improve safety, reduce downtime and increase production speed and efficiency.

IoT remote monitoring is achieved using a data logger that provides a powerful tool and enables applications to become more intelligent and versatile. It can easily function as a data acquisition device to query PLCs and transmit information through NB-IOT/Cat-M1, lowering the cost of equipment construction and maintenance.

To achieve the level of dynamic control required for multi-ton loads of shipping containers traveling in three dimensions at high speed, data must be collected from several sources in real-time and processed instantly, so that the exact position and velocity are always known and can be adjusted.

Journey to securely streaming, smoothing, and storing time series embedded IoT data. A streaming database processes new real-time data, updating any registered queries’ results right away. And a time series database offers a software system tailored for the storage and delivery of associated pairs of timestamps and values.

Before Industry 4.0, OT devices and systems were “air-gapped” to isolate them from risk. That is not possible today. Industrial switches, media converters and wireless routers must feature robust, DoD-compliant layer 2 and layer 3 security that helps manage network traffic at scale.

Machine connectivity is a central component of the digital factory. IoT applications, monitoring, and data analysis can only be implemented if they have access to machine and process data residing in PLCs and other devices.

The Industry 4.0 paradigm is continuing to reshape every industrial sector. The data-driven, automated technologies that this framework leverages are having a vast and lasting impact on every single aspect of manufacturing, from R&D to operations and the entire supply chain.

Tailyn builds rugged and Time-Sensitive Networking which has been implemented in its 5G Fronthaul switch, TSN switch, 90W PoE switch, 5G gateway and middle-end Ethernet switch.

Industry experts provide their perspective on the megatrends and technology shaping the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Automation and control system manufacturers are leveraging IT tools and security solutions, and focusing on edge computing to increase the scalability and manageability of IIoT solutions.