Smart Industry Blog: Fog, Mist and Hardware in Factory Automation

Although cloud computing is pervasive and popular in consumer technology, the cloud isn’t always ideal in industrial applications because factory automation needs real-time connectivity without latency or intermittent-connectivity issues, as well as industrial-grade equipment that can handle the factory environment. The next generation of computing–fog and mist–and the applications for factory automation and embedded devices…

Embedded Intel® Solutions: Hardware for IIoT Mist Computing…at the Edge

 Hardware for IIoT Mist Computing… at the Edge April 21, 2017 By JC Ramirez “The latest industrial Intel® Atom™ processors are empowering new, small form factor systems—as IIoT hardware optimization using a bottom-up approach gathers momentum.” Much has been written recently about the difficulties with current IIoT implementations, as IIoT continues to expand into the far…