In short Software is increasingly replacing hardware in industrial environments Software-based controllers (Soft PLCs) today are reliable, powerful and flexible. Soft PLC adoption is expected to double between 2019 and 2025, posing an “innovator’s dilemma”… read more →
In short IoT edge computing resources are becoming increasingly intelligent There are 7 key characteristics that make modern edge computing more intelligent (including open architectures, data pre-processing, distributed applications) The intelligent industrial edge computing market… read more →
In short Thousands of smart connected IoT products were introduced to the market in the last 6 years IoT Analytics published a comprehensive 189-page report studying the success factors of early IoT business model innovators such as iRobot, thyssenkrupp Elevators, and Caterpillar An overwhelming 61%… read more →
Covid-19 continues to have an unprecedented impact on our society and our economy. In Part 1 of our analysis on the “impact of Covid-19 on the Internet of Things” we highlighted how the crisis is… read more →
Covid-19 is having an unprecedented impact on our society and our economy. There are also strong indications that many technologies will see accelerated adoption in the coming years because people become more digitally minded as… read more →
New research suggests that we may be at the beginning of a new business model paradigm for industrial equipment. 2010-2020: The decade of the consumer outcome economy Back in 2010, few people foresaw that the… read more →
Industry 4.0 technology roll-out in 2020 is still low, with less than 30% of manufacturers reporting extensive adoption today -– this is a key finding of IoT Analytics’ latest 286-page Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing… read more →
IoT Analytics’ recently published the Industrial AI Market Report 2020-2025. As part of the research, the analyst team identified a total of 33 different use cases that employ Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques on (predominantly)… read more →
Advances in Internet of Things and in Analytics/AI technologies are saving companies billions of dollars on their asset maintenance, according to IoT Analytics’ recent Predictive Maintenance Market Report 2019-2024. The research (performed in early 2019)… read more →
IT and OT both started on individual paths in the 70s and slowly converged in the 90s and 2000s to form today’s widely accepted 5-layer architecture. Over the past few decades, hundreds of successful companies… read more →