Digital Transformation Viewpoints

Featured here are original and timely articles from ARC analysts and guest writers on topics such as Digitization, New Business Models, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, and Smart Manufacturing. We dive into technologies such as additive manufacturing, machine learning, asset performance management, device connectivity, IIoT architecture, cybersecurity, augmented reality, and more related to digitization and transformation of industries, infrastructure, and cities. Our goal is to provide readers with clear and concise analyses, opinions, and discussion of these trends, technologies, and services.

Aug
03
2015
Greg Gorbach — Industry Trends

How to launch your fleet of connected products

For industrial companies that make machines of any kind, IoT has become a "not if, but when" proposition. How do you move from an unconnected state to supporting a connected fleet of IoT products?  You need to prototype, scale, and then manage your fleet of Internet of Things products.
Jul
24
2015
Craig Resnick — Industry Trends

Connecting Industrial Devices

Connected Device Management (CDM) Platforms are important components of the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture.
Jul
20
2015
— Industry Trends

Oh puleeze, let's make the Industrial IoT better than this...

The consumer internet of things largely lives in something of a parallel universe to industrial IoT.  Sure, there is going to be overlap in the supporting infrastructure - networks, IoT platforms etc. but the applications are shaping up to be very different.
Jul
14
2015
Bob Gill — Industry Trends

Enhancing the Sensor's Role in IIoT

One of the drivers of the Industrial Internet of Things is the increasing capability of sensors: higher accuracy, smaller size, reduced energy consumption, multi-variable sensing, self-diagnostics, wireless – and all at ever lower costs.