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 […]

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

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are proliferating into unanticipated areas of businesses and personal lives. The explosion of IoT devices follows the familiar pattern of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement, which has infiltrated the same spaces. What differentiates the two categories is the number of items and the cost of individual devices. But while the differences

Recently released surveys from Accenture focus on three hot topic areas in the world of healthcare: virtual care, data breaches and the Internet of Health Things. Virtual care About three-fourths of U.S. consumers are willing to use virtual care for their health needs. Yet only one-fifth of consumers are actually using it. Advertisement In early February, Accenture