Industrial IoT revolutionizing embedded development
Up until now, applications typically haven’t been connected to each other — and if they were, they were usually hard-wired, which was a much easier task than establishing wireless connectivity. The demand for wireless connected products to the cloud is emerging almost overnight, and is posing serious challenges for device OEMs and their industrial and consumer customers. Many of the organizations dealing with this challenge have had long-standing products on the market which never had to be connected to the internet before.
For example, industrial companies are seeing newly emerging demands such as users requesting instant remote access to fielded devices via their smartphones. These types of industrial large node network systems include smart meters, smart energy, agriculture, commercial building automation and lighting. Most notably, there has been significant interest for robust wireless remote device access and control from commercial building operators and medical providers, who often need to remotely monitor buildings and manage patients. Read more…