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The Sparkplug Specification Is Now an ISO/IEC StandardĀ 

Gary Mintchell

MQTT is a fast and lightweight transport protocol, but using it required engineers to specify their own payload technology. MQTT is a fast and lightweight transport protocol, but using it required engineers to specify their own payload technology. OPC UA has a place in the toolbox, but many engineers desired a lightweight alternative.

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Open Source Software Gateway to Standardize Industrial Edge Data

Gary Mintchell

This is news from HiveMQ about some more Edge-Optimized technology. HiveMQ Edge helps manufacturing organizations simplify and modernize their Industrial IoT infrastructure by converting proprietary OT protocols like Modbus and OPC-UA into the standardized MQTT format at the edge for easy integration with enterprise and cloud systems.

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PACTware 6.1 Now Supports FDT3 and Expands Device Integration ModelĀ 

Gary Mintchell

This one is expansion of the device integration model enabled by the latest version of FDT. I sat in a couple of sessions where a senior engineer at a consumer packaged goods company pleaded with suppliers to make integrating and applying technologies more user-friendly. This is one such technology. The post PACTware 6.1

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Three Tips from Moxa on Getting IIoT Networks Ready for the Future

Gary Mintchell

Tip One: Achieve Greater Integration with Unified Infrastructure Over the years, various devices using different protocols have been deployed on industrial networks to provide diverse services. Under these circumstances, network integration usually costs more than expected or becomes more difficult to achieve.

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IICā€™s Vertical Standards Landscape reference paper: A guidance for IIoT standards

Automation Mag

ā€œThis reference paper follows up on our previous paper proposing an IIoT standards strategy,ā€ said Erin Bournival, distinguished engineer, office of the corporate CTO at Dell Technologies, co-chair of the IIC Standards Task Group and co-author of the paper.

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Announcements from Inductive Automationā€™s Ignition Community Conference 2023

Gary Mintchell

including expansion of the Ignition Cloud product and simplifying pricing and SKUs for the Ignition Edge product drawing cheers from its user and integrator audience. including expansion of the Ignition Cloud product and simplifying pricing and SKUs for the Ignition Edge product drawing cheers from its user and integrator audience.

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Industrial cloud platform insights

Control Engineering

Industrial cloud platform insights Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is shifting its focus from platforms to applications as IIoT is focusing on specific industries. Industrial control manufacturers are embracing and expanding IIoT as a natural progression of automation and controls development.