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Manufacturing and IoT: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

By Dick Weisinger

Manufacturing businesses are increasingly equipping their plants with sensors to monitor their processes and activities.  Manufacturers are already collecting vast amounts of data.  A recent survey by Frost and Sullivan found that data collection for manufacturing, or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) now…

Internet of Things (IoT): Security and Privacy Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

Security and privacy issues of Internet of Things (IoT) technology is coming under review. This was brought into focus recently by the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on IoT.  During that session, Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said that “in particular, we need…

Internet of Things: Businesses Invest Heavily in Machine To Machine (M2M) Communication

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a broad set of technologies.  One facet of IoT is Machine to Machine (M2M), a technology that allows machines to connect to and to exchange data among themselves.  A recent Vodafone survey of M2M technology…

Internet of Things (IoT): The Challenges Ahead

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) movement is about making common object smart.  It’s about enabling ‘dumb’ objects to be able to communicate information that they’ve sensed or related to their proximity.  Associated with the move to smart objects is the…

Internet of Things (IoT): Huge Growth Forecast Especially for the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to triple in size and reach $1.7 trillion by 2020, estimates research group IDC.  The IoT market size for 2014 was estimated to be on the order of $650 billion.  The growth…