June/July 2023

It's all about reducing distance. Just like any network, what makes the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) useful is bringing faraway or hard-to-reach signals and other process data much closer to controllers and cloud-computing services to improve analyses, which enable better decisions, efficiency, optimization and profitability. What sets IIoT apart lately is it can achieve these goals faster and easier than its predecessors, provided users perform some common-sense design, setup and maintenance chores.