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Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 8: Final - Data Dashboard

Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 8: Final - Data Dashboard

In this final installment of the IIoT tech stack project, learn how to design the customer-facing dashboard or observability platform using the data acquired from the MQTT client device.


Can Generative AI and Large Language Models Help Catch More Krill?

Can Generative AI and Large Language Models Help Catch More Krill?

This article reviews the challenges and opportunities when incorporating generative AI and Large Language Models in industrial applications. It also examines how a Norwegian fishing and biotech company improved operational productivity and efficiency using generative AI.


Diving Robot Powered by Beckhoff Helps Clean the Canals in Venice

Diving Robot Powered by Beckhoff Helps Clean the Canals in Venice

A research team has leveraged Beckhoff industrial PCs and sensor arrays to remove trash from water up to 20 m deep, using a robot to clean trash from a popular, yet polluted location.


News Nov 03, 2023 by Seth Price
Advancements in The Field: Automation Transforms Future Farming

Advancements in The Field: Automation Transforms Future Farming

Investigate some of the notable recent technological advancements in the field of agricultural automation, providing higher-yielding, long-lasting solutions for modern farming.


News Nov 02, 2023 by Bob Odhiambo
Zebra Technologies and Hippo Harvest Cut Resource Waste With AMR-Driven Farming

Zebra Technologies and Hippo Harvest Cut Resource Waste With AMR-Driven Farming

How are autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) being used in farming and agriculture to reduce negative environmental impacts and promote sustainable operations in the long term?


News Nov 01, 2023 by Stephanie Leonida
Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 7: Integrating Data With Database

Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 7: Integrating Data With Database

As we approach the conclusion of this IIoT project, we’ll explore the integration of the Mosquitto MQTT broker, Node-RED, and InfluxDB, leaving only the data dashboard setup for the final step.


Top 10 Control Halloween Costumes for Engineers Who Can’t Keep Work at Work

Top 10 Control Halloween Costumes for Engineers Who Can’t Keep Work at Work

Wondering how to scare your friends, family, and neighbors, but you can’t think of anything really scary? Oh yes you can. We’ve compiled the top 10 costume ideas - and the materials may be easier to find than you think.


News Oct 29, 2023 by David Peterson
Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 6: Node-RED Development

Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 6: Node-RED Development

This article will explore the setup of Node-RED, the glue that will serve to connect all of the individual components of the solution that we have created up to this point.


Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 4: Connecting MQTT Client to Broker

Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 4: Connecting MQTT Client to Broker

Continuing the real-world IIoT project, learn how to begin integrating the Raspberry Pi with the Mosquitto Broker and understand Docker networks and port binding.


Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 3: Commissioning MQTT Broker

Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 3: Commissioning MQTT Broker

Learn to develop an actual IoT solution end to end. Create a Mosquitto MQTT broker for the Raspberry Pi client in order to connect and publish Sense HAT sensor data.


Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 2: Testing The Data Payload

Create Your Own IIoT Tech Stack Project | Part 2: Testing The Data Payload

Learn to develop an actual IoT solution end to end. This second article explains configuration files, testing the edge device publisher script, and viewing the payload using a sandbox subscriber script.


Baumer Introduces a High-Resolution 2D Linear Profilometer

Baumer Introduces a High-Resolution 2D Linear Profilometer

Offering fine resolution for better quality control on linear profiles, Baumer’s new OXM200 sensor line is available in 10 flexible models.


News Oct 14, 2023 by Seth Price
OnLogic Joins Inductive Automation’s Partner Program

OnLogic Joins Inductive Automation’s Partner Program

As an Inductive Automation Alliance Partner Program member, OnLogic’s hardware offerings are now more accessible to Ignition software users.


News Oct 13, 2023 by Stephanie Leonida
Banner Introduces Modular TL70 Basic Tower Lights for High-Visibility Alerting

Banner Introduces Modular TL70 Basic Tower Lights for High-Visibility Alerting

Banner’s new TL70 Basic tower lights offer cost-effective machine status indication with a wide array of tower configurability, bright colors, and audible alert options.


News Oct 12, 2023 by Bob Odhiambo
Bosch Rexroth Training Center Preparing Next Generation for Hydraulic Control Innovation

Bosch Rexroth Training Center Preparing Next Generation for Hydraulic Control Innovation

Bosch Rexroth’s Hydraulic Training Center dedicates 4,000 sq. ft. specifically to train state-of-the-industry hydraulic motion and control technology skills.


News Oct 07, 2023 by Bob Odhiambo
GE Vernova’s CERius Software Designed to Help Industry Gather Accurate Emissions Data and Streamline Compliance

GE Vernova’s CERius Software Designed to Help Industry Gather Accurate Emissions Data and Streamline Compliance

GE and CERius aim to help manufacturers and power generators reduce greenhouse gas emissions.


News Oct 06, 2023 by Seth Price
SMC Adds Higher-Flow 4-Port Solenoid Valve Cassette Manifolds to SJ Series

SMC Adds Higher-Flow 4-Port Solenoid Valve Cassette Manifolds to SJ Series

Offering the highest flow rates in its lineup, the SJ3000A and SJ4000 offer 1.4 and 4.9 times greater flow rates respectively.


News Oct 05, 2023 by Shawn Dietrich
Advanced Web-Based HMI Project: Part 1

Advanced Web-Based HMI Project: Part 1

Taking web-based HMI design from a simulated project to the real-world environment. Part 1 introduces tag instances and attributes.


Keyence Introduces World’s First Clamp-On Air-Flow Sensor With New Series

Keyence Introduces World’s First Clamp-On Air-Flow Sensor With New Series

Keyence announces the release of innovative air monitoring sensors designed to provide critical air system data when and where it’s needed most.


News Sep 27, 2023 by Damond Goodwin
Outstanding in the Field: Robots That Can Pick Fruit

Outstanding in the Field: Robots That Can Pick Fruit

Agriculture is an industry ‘ripe’ for technology, but what obstacles and opportunities lie in front of the cutting-edge innovators of the field?