The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Data Architecture
Structure used to collect, store, process, and expose industrial data across systems. Defines how data flows from machines to applications and analytics.
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AI Enabled by IIoT: Building the Factory of the Future
Read more: AI Enabled by IIoT: Building the Factory of the FutureMost conversations about AI in manufacturing skip the hardest part. They jump straight to dashboards, copilots, and predictions, but forget to ask one simple question. Where does the data come from? I’ve spent years connecting machines, historians, SCADA systems, and…
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Data Context in IIoT. Why Raw Numbers Aren’t Enough for Smarter Manufacturing
Read more: Data Context in IIoT. Why Raw Numbers Aren’t Enough for Smarter ManufacturingI’ve spent years deep in large IIoT programs. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of tags streaming from shop floors to cloud platforms across very different industries: automotive, pharma, high volume, and highly regulated. And there’s one lesson that keeps…
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Unified Namespace (UNS) as the Architectural Foundation for IIoT
Read more: Unified Namespace (UNS) as the Architectural Foundation for IIoTIf you want to talk about making factories smarter and more connected, you have to talk about Unified Namespace. I’ve been working with industrial data for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen many architectural patterns come and go in…
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Inside an IIoT Platform: The Layers That Make It Work
Read more: Inside an IIoT Platform: The Layers That Make It WorkWhen people talk about “IIoT platforms,” it often sounds like some magic box that connects machines and sends data to the cloud. In reality, it’s not a box — it’s more like a layered system, with several moving parts working…