Published on 03/24/2016 | IoT Index
In the age of Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), it is not the hardware technology that is being falling behind, it is the mindset of data utilization that will have a hard time catching on.
For manufacturing and industrial companies, pressure on cost reduction and efficiency optimization are driving the movement into smart manufacturing, operations, logistics etc. At the end of the day, technologies of getting data would eventually become mature and stable. It is the innovative ways of managing the data and creating value from the data that will win the Industrial IoT race.
We listed 5 use cases that we think are essential for Industrial IoT, and are using data to improve operation efficiency security in the industrial space.
1) Perimeter Security and Access Control systems protect the external perimeter of a facility, control access to restricted areas, and detect and monitor anomalies.
2) Edge (Fog) computing shifts computing applications, data, and services away from centralized servers to the extremes of a network. This enables analytics and knowledge generation to occur at the source of the data.
3) Process Control and Optimization (PCO) is the discipline of adjusting a process to maintain or optimize a specified set of parameters without violating process constraints. The most common goals of PCO are minimizing costs and maximizing throughput or efficiency.
4) Smart Supply Chains monitor conditions along the supply chain and track products for traceability. There are three primary components: IoT instrumentation on fixed objects such as pallets and trucks; interconnection across systems up and down the supply chain; and advanced analytics impemented through optimization software.
5) Condition-based Maintenance (CBM) or predictive maintenance is the science of maintaining physical assets over time, in order to maximize their return on those assets. It is enabled by sensors and data analytics that provide visibility into the current and future status of assets.
Do you have any experience on those use cases? Please feel free to share your thoughts and insights on them.
