Industrial internet of things (iiot) - Articles

The IDEC Corp. HT4P Safety Commander tablet being held.

Automation/Robotics

IDEC Corp. Develops New HT4P Safety Commander

April 6, 2023

The company releases a human-machine interface (HMI) tablet for the factory floor.

Temperature Monitoring and Control

Making the argument for wireless temperature solutions

Not every temperature measurement application needs to be wireless, but for some locations, IIoT wireless connections may be the only practical choice

July 22, 2020

Time was when your wired control network, either a proprietary DCS or more modern Ethernet-based system, could easily accommodate that extra temperature monitoring point you needed to add in your process to improve the quality of, for example, your baking or drying process. That is, provided you had a cable drop where you needed to add in a sensor, and the control software you were using would easily accommodate it.

New Plant Products

Smart access web server module

July 17, 2020

Sinamics V20 Smart Access web server module is designed to mount directly onto the drive.

New Plant Products

Firmware upgrade

July 10, 2020

The latest groov EPIC firmware adds support for multi-signal, multifunction Ethernet-based groov RIO edge I/O and updates many embedded applications.

Tech Update

Employing wireless sensors without a clear goal could prove inefficient

Wayne Labs

January 22, 2020

How do you implement a sensor-based IIoT system that can fulfill your needs now and into the future?

IIOT Communications

IIOT sensor communications issues still need work

NIST’s Nenad Ivezic provides a more detailed view of the progress made in standardizing data communications in the food supply chain—including sensors and IIoT at the farm and industrial levels

Wayne Labs

January 17, 2020

While much of the work involving the standardization of communication in the overall food supply chain is finished, there is still work needing to be done regarding the standardization of IIoT sensor data. I asked Nenad Ivezic, leader of the Process Engineering Group in the Systems Integration Division of the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Engineering Laboratory, to fill us in on the particulars.

Manufacturing News

Solving IoT supply chain communications problems

Wayne Labs

January 6, 2020

Food manufacturers and distributors are beginning to attach IoT sensors to shipping containers to track critical information about the temperature and humidity of the product plus ongoing location and shipper information.

New Plant Products

Remote temperature monitoring

November 19, 2019

The Sentinel system uses cloud technology to provide supervised 24/7 remote monitoring of temperatures inside industrial food refrigerators and freezers and other environmental conditions that can affect the operation of cold storage units.