Extreme Networks, Inc. announced the introduction of the Industrial Series Switches, further enhancing the ExtremeSwitching line of products and rounding out the company's end-to-end, software-driven wired and wireless offerings for campus enterprises. The Industrial Ethernet Switches are designed to provide continuous uptime, manageability, efficiency, and high performance in the harshest operating environments.

Meridium, Inc., a leader in asset performance management (APM) software and services, announced the immediate availability of Meridium Enterprise APM version 4.2. The newest version of Meridium's Enterprise APM solution was previewed during the 2016 Meridium annual conference in Dallas, Texas.

Rockwell Automation introduced its new Allen-Bradley IP67-rated ArmorBlock IO-Link master, which builds upon the company's IO-Link portfolio with event and process timestamping capabilities for on-machine applications. This new device helps enable manufacturers and industrial operators to access more detailed sensor diagnostics in harsh operating environments.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has significantly enhanced its FieldMate device management software, and is releasing this as FieldMate R3.02 on August 10. FieldMate is a versatile software program used to configure, adjust, and manage a wide variety of field devices used in factories and other production sites. This latest version of FieldMate includes new functions that reduce maintenance workload by simplifying a number of field maintenance tasks.

​In the oil and gas downstream industry, logistics is not only about storing and transporting petroleum products, but also about submitting data from one place to another. This includes communication from refinery to tank terminal, from tank terminal to haulier, from haulier to service station – and vice versa. If critical data is missing, a tank truck won't be able to pick up fuel at the terminal, or won't be able to deliver it to the service station on time.

​L&T Technology Services has come up with disruptive technology to quantify the carbon dioxide (CO2) content in air, thus paving the way for optimum use of building space and its better management.  The technology uses a camera with multiple sensors to compute carbon dioxide density in the air using an algorithm.

L&T Technology Services, which provides innovative engineering as well as research and development services across sectors, opened a new engineering centre in Dublin.

The centre will showcase technologies, product design and manufacturing engineering processes dedicated to supporting digital engineering, regional talent development and expansion of L&T Technology Services' North American operations.

Hitachi, Ltd. announced the development of a database management system designed for the high-speed embedded memory in the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware and technology used for higher performance parallel data processing in these FPGAs. Using these technologies, speed of data analytics was, according to the company, increased by up to a maximum of 100 times compared with not using these technologies.

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, has launched Gutor PXC, a standardized, fully industrial uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for harsh environments.

A new publication from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a basic model aimed at helping researchers better understand the Internet of Things (IoT) and its security challenges.