Ever visited a power plant in recent times? The number of personnel on the floor is hardly 5. A couple of people, operating a little away from the plant, watching a number of displays and light bulbs would be ‘quietly’ monitoring the entire production process. In fact, you would almost be greeted with an eerie silence, except for the hum of the turbines. Now, contrast that with a traditional manufacturing plant – the number of moving parts (literally and figuratively) make the shop floor a beehive of activity. What if the traditional shop floor can also be managed and monitored with quiet confidence and outstanding efficiency – by connecting machines, systems and people seamlessly.
Manufacturing starts on the shop floor. It’s where material moves, the product is created, ultimately, where the work gets done. Every day, new devices and equipment are providing manufacturers with new opportunities for innovation and connection. In the entire world of shop floor automation, the trend (nay a wholesale revolution) is smart factory.
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This equates to the fact that you have a high-speed correlation in real-time, which enables businesses to garner meaningful insights, create personalised experiences and help make crucial decisions.It comes with excellent bandwidth link and faster response time, which drive many organisations to choose edge computing.
If you are planning to use it, then make sure your place has limited network connectivity to cloud services, computing, analytics and storage.
It is one of the best choices you can make if you need instantaneous data processing for real-time decision making, without having to send the data to the cloud-first.Let us understand how Edge has been assisting some of the early adopters: Keeping retail in mind, what holds a lot of significance is being open to business and being able to transact.
With Edge, you can deliver a more efficient customer experience, operational excellence, better supply chain and inventory optimisation.In the education field, Edge is creating an immersive learning experience for students and helping them overcome the hurdles faced during online learning.In the healthcare sector, Edge is facilitating access to timely information.
Business are already seeing multiple benefits with Edge Drop-in IoT solution costs –if you locally manage the data, the need for cloud and network resources reduces.It provides you with better opportunities to manage risk – the data is distributed; hence, the risk is also distributed.
Leads to faster response time – as it minimises latency for consumers or customers enhances user/customer experience.Now with local autonomy – intermittent connectivity to the cloud will no longer bring business to halt.Bridging IT and OT – for instance, CCTV systems in a grocery store can be easily connected to edge computing, which allows the store to gather insights, like identifying hazards at the very moment and analysing customer behaviour.
As one of the highly dynamic and fastest evolving sectors, the food and beverage industry emerges as a big beneficiary of IoT technology.
IoT in the food processing industry aims at achieving high standards of food safety, reducing wastage, and improving the traceability of various items.
But then, the quality of food items depends on multiple factors including storage.
This is particularly necessary in the case of perishable foods like meat and dairy products.
Here, Industrial IoT in food processing industry (IIoT) lends a helping hand!IoT in the food processing industry makes it possible to monitor the equipment and processes round the clock.
Irrespective of the staff’s presence and closure of warehouses, the F companies can easily monitor all the activities to ensure the quality of food and prevent heavy losses due to expired raw material.
With the traditional Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology many advantages like incremental Network traffic, system integration for IT and asset efficiency played major role in the success of the technology.
M2M is the foundation of IoT but at the same side M2M and IoT are not same.
M2M is independent of IoT but IoT depends on M2M.
IoT took M2M to a different and an advanced level such that it brought together the distributed system at one large connected system.
As the technology touched every life, there came IoT where huge no.
of devices were there but “connected to internet.” From the recent research it has been known that there will be 30 billion devices by 2020 connected to each other with the help of internet.
