Overcoming Industrial IoT Challenges to Better Use Data from the Edge

As the Internet of Things has come of age over the past few years, consumer applications have often taken center stage. IoT can offer more value, however, in industrial applications by using data from the edge to solve manufacturing problems, improve operations, and make predictive maintenance a reality. Analyst firm IDC predicts that by 2019, 45 percent of IoT-created data will be stored, processed, analyzed and acted upon close to or at the edge of the network. The challenge is that many companies want to take advantage of the value Industrial IoT offers to improve their business, but they do not know how to undergo a digital transformation without getting rid of existing legacy equipment.