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Wi-Fi and Hybrid Technologies to Lead in Indoor Positioning
IHS Technology By the end of 2015, Wi-Fi and hybrid technologies will make up the majority of the systems that navigate users in locations covered by nearly 91,000 digital indoor positioning maps, according to a research note by IHS’s Jamie Fox, principal analyst with IHS Technology.
What's the Best Fieldbus for Your Process Plant?
Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things are influencing the choice of fieldbus technology for process plants.
Software That Suggests Low-risk Alternatives
Imagine that you could tell your phone that you want to drive from your house in Boston to a hotel in upstate New York, that you want to stop for lunch at an Applebee's at about 12:30, and that you don't want the trip to take more than four hours.
Cyber Attacks in the Oil Patch: Safeguards and Risk Mitigation Strategies
As the digital oil field moves from concept to reality, its vulnerabilities take on a whole new importance.
Cyber Security Bills Signed Into Law
President Barack Obama on Dec. 18 signed five cybersecurity-related bills, the first time in 12 years that significant cybersecurity legislation has become law.
Internet of Things in the Real World, Part 4
How will the Internet of Things (IoT) actually be implemented in an industrial enterprise? Many of the separate elements have been in place for a couple of decades, so the challenge is to understand what needs to be done to pull them together to function as a whole.
IHS Acquires Communications Technology Market Intelligence Firm
IHS Inc. has acquired Infonetics Research, an international market research firm that serves the global communications market.
Internet of Things in the Real World, Part 3
There’s little doubt that the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) would be ideal for enabling the manufacturing and extraction industries to be more efficient and productive—producing more output with reduced input of time, effort and energy.
10 Steps to Better Foundation Fieldbus Installations--Part 3
Lessons learned from fieldbus users can help improve systems, performance and personnel. Part 1 of this three-part series discusses how wiring mistakes interfere with communication. Part 2 examines how configuration and addressing make all the difference.
Internet of Things in the Real World, Part 2
How will the Internet of Things (IoT) actually be implemented in an industrial enterprise? Many of the separate elements have been in place for a couple of decades, so the challenge is to understand what needs to be done to pull them together to function as a whole.
10 Steps to Better Foundation Fieldbus Installations—Part 2
Lessons learned from fieldbus users can help improve systems, performance and personnel. Part one of this three part series discusses how wiring mistakes interfere with communication. This installment examines how configuration and addressing make all the difference. Part 3 will be published in the near future.
Nanoelectronics for 2020 and Beyond
The semiconductor industry is on the verge of transitioning to new realities of fabrication.
Without Relativity, GPS Would Be Lost
Ask the average person what "relativity" means, and you'll likely hear answers such as "everything's relative," "you can't go faster than light" or even the classic formula "E = mc2.”
Internet of Things in the Real World, Part 1
The Internet of Things has been riding the crest of a wave of attention in the technology and financial media in recent years.
NIST Publishes Cloud Computing Roadmap
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the final version of the U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Volumes I and II. The roadmap focuses on strategic and tactical objectives to support the federal government's accelerated adoption of cloud computing.
Is Hyperspectral Imaging Ready to Take Off?
After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the U.S. space agency, NASA, deployed its Earth Resources-2 aircraft to detect the presence, extent and concentration of the spill.
10 Steps to Better Foundation Fieldbus Installations—Part 1
Lessons learned from fieldbus users can help improve your systems, performance and personnel. Part one: How wiring mistakes interfere with communication.
BYOD Advances with Cautious Steps
Companies continue to wrestle with how best to manage technology and productivity, the Internet of Things and related bring-your-own-device (BYOD) issues.
Google Leaps Into Quantum Computing
As the technology of computing has evolved, the limitations of “classical” computers have grown more apparent. Many problems are so unwieldy they would take several times the age of the universe to solve. It’s becoming increasingly clear that more processing isn’t enough.
Wireless Standard Wins Approval
The International Society of Automation (ISA) says that ANSI/ISA-100.11a-2011, "Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications," has been unanimously approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as an international standard.