The Industrial IoT Landscape Q4 2026 maps vendors and open source from edge to cloud in four categories, explains the…
Factories do not lack automation. They lack coordination between automations. This post maps unified orchestration to manufacturing and logistics: data…
Edge to cloud is not one integration problem. It is four: telemetry going up, control going down, sites syncing sideways,…
This blog post explores the synergy between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles and Kafka and Flink's real-time data processing…
In the IoT world, MQTT and OPC UA have established themselves as open and platform-independent standards for data exchange in…
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as Industry 4.0) is the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using…
'Data Historian' is a well-known concept in Industrial IoT (IIoT). It helps to ensure and improve the Overall Equipment Effectiveness…
A digital twin is a virtual representation of something else. This can be a physical thing, process or service. This…
The following question comes up almost every week in conversations with customers: Can and should I deploy Apache Kafka at…
Data integration and processing in Industrial IoT (IIoT, aka Industry 4.0 or Automation Industry). Apache Kafka, its ecosystem (Kafka Connect,…