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| Share | Share | Share | Share The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving productivity increases: 72% of manufacturers saw increases in productivity and 69% saw improved profitability in the past year. According to The MPI Internet of Things Study, sponsored by BDO, half of plant production and equipment processes are already being managed …

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Mirai — a notorious malware that’s been enslaving IoT devices — has competition. A rival piece of programming has been infecting some of the same easy-to-hack internet-of-things products, with a resiliency that surpasses Mirai, according to security researchers. “You can almost call it Mirai on steroids,” said Marshal Webb, CTO at BackConnect, a provider of …

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The Internet of Things is taking college campuses by storm. From a Google Home in a professor’s office to a control system in a campus power plant, IoT devices are rapidly spreading, with no sign of slowing down. Within three years, analysts project, IoT devices may outnumber traditional computing devices by a 2-to-1 ratio. These …

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Apr 17, 2017— Perhaps you figure that the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is all about monitoring industrial equipment like pumps, generators, motors, gauges, switches and other gadgets classically considered to be industrial. Think again! Well, you’re right that the IIoT helps your organization monitor industrial assets. And yet, so there’s so much more. How …

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Companies, like people and cities, have every right to call themselves whatever they please. I come to this conviction, perhaps, as a native of Illinois, where cities like Des Plaines (pronounced dess-PLAINS) and Marseilles (mar-SAILS) defy the sophisticated outsider to apply a French pronunciation. Silver Spring Networks (ssni), a publicly traded company that provides so-called …

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