TECH & AI
He urges businesses who are harnessing IIoT tech to treat their networks in the same way the world treated modems , back when the Internet was in its infancy .
“ Think back to the days of dial-up modems ,” he says , “ where everyone minimised the amount of data transmitted , because if you didn ’ t then the whole thing just hung ”.
As well as focusing in on data exceptions , Andy says IIoT operations benefit hugely from edge computing , which is a distributed computing model that brings computation closer to the sources of data – a mining operation , say , or an ore-processing plant .
“ If you have local processing power it can be invaluable ,” Andy says . “ For instance , if a machine is going out of tolerance and there is a delay in sending this data to the cloud and back , you could have big problems by the time the machine is switched off .
“ The idea is that local machinelearning tech understands that a machine is out of tolerance , and recalibrates it without any human action needed .” WATCH NOW
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