The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Edge-to-Cloud
The flow of data and workloads from edge devices to cloud platforms. It enables real-time processing locally while supporting centralized analytics and scaling.
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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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Ignition at ProveIt! Conference 2026. What Actually Scales
Read more: Ignition at ProveIt! Conference 2026. What Actually ScalesI watched an Ignition 8.3 presentation at the ProveIt! Conference in Dallas, and it was one of the cleaner “this is how you scale IIoT” demos I have seen in a while. Not because it had flashy dashboards. Not because…
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Is Sparkplug B Essential for IIoT Data Streaming?
Read more: Is Sparkplug B Essential for IIoT Data Streaming?Let me start with the short answer: No, Sparkplug B is not a “must” in every IIoT data streaming project. But it’s also not a technology you can ignore if you care about scalable, plug-and-play data flow in modern industrial…
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MQTT or OPC UA? My Real-World Take
Read more: MQTT or OPC UA? My Real-World TakeSo, I’ve lost count of how many times someone’s asked me, “Henry, should I use MQTT or OPC UA for my manufacturing project?” The truth is, I’ve been on both sides of that decision — sometimes sweating over a flaky…