Let’s take a bite of the industrial IoT layer cake – Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
I spent the first part of this week at Emerson’s annual users conference, where I heard about bridging the gap between operations and information technology. This so-called OT-IT divide has been something I’ve covered for the last few years, but Emerson devoted its entire 5-day gathering to the topic. I even watched actors role-play a scene in which a plant operations manager goes to an IT person for permission to install new monitoring software, only to be told “no” because it would open up a port on the network.
It was a good reminder that, in many ways, the two sides speak distinctly different languages. Even I — who have had several patient people explain to me the intricacies of process control networks — sometimes get tripped up. Subsequently, in a conversation with Emerson’s Mike Boudreaux, director of connected services, I got a crash course in how to think about the layers that comprise an industrial IoT model.