SMART FACTORY IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA AND IoT

March 1, 2016

Compared to the acres of poor space once given over to mechanical and electric systems, today’s factories are practically unrecognizable. Walk into a plant manufacturing washing machines, automobiles, paints or petroleum products and you’ll notice they look quite different. They are humming with hardware, sensors, microprocessors, robots and monitors connected to one another. These plants are getting increasingly connected to external systems and actual users in real time. Thanks to the wide availability of processing power, the miracles of miniaturization and growing connectivity (wired and wireless), factories, production plants and mills are unleashing a new era in industrialization – it is an era of Big Data generated and transmitted by millions of devices on a backbone called the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Equinix Telecity’s data centres provide secure and highly-connected environments for the IT and telecoms equipment that powers the digital economy. Our data centres are enabling environments in which the separate networks that make up the internet meet and where bandwidth intensive applications, content and information are hosted. Headquartered in London, we operate data centres in prime city centre positions in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Istanbul, London, Manchester, Milan, Paris, Sofia, Stockholm and Warsaw. We are expanding our capacity in all our markets by building new data centres and expanding existing facilities ensuring we have the capacity to support customer growth. Learn more about these data centres by taking a virtual tour or downloading one of our latest brochures.

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whitePaper | June 13, 2023

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whitePaper | January 10, 2020

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Internet of Things (IoT) in the Federal Government

whitePaper | June 8, 2021

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whitePaper | February 12, 2020

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector are being left behind in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This worrying trend is exacerbating economic inequality, stifling opportunities for social mobility and dragging down global industrial productivity. To benefit from the technological advancements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, SMEs will need to overcome a range of challenges including a dearth of skilled employees, lack of access to capital and unclear returns on investment, a need to revamp their firm’s infrastructure and processes, a need to update information technology and operational technology, and navigate a nascent technology landscape that is currently poised to serve larger companies.

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White paper - Connected Cars - Smart transport

whitePaper | January 15, 2020

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Tech Data Scaling IoT Solutions Whitepaper

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TelecityGroup

Equinix Telecity’s data centres provide secure and highly-connected environments for the IT and telecoms equipment that powers the digital economy. Our data centres are enabling environments in which the separate networks that make up the internet meet and where bandwidth intensive applications, content and information are hosted. Headquartered in London, we operate data centres in prime city centre positions in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Istanbul, London, Manchester, Milan, Paris, Sofia, Stockholm and Warsaw. We are expanding our capacity in all our markets by building new data centres and expanding existing facilities ensuring we have the capacity to support customer growth. Learn more about these data centres by taking a virtual tour or downloading one of our latest brochures.

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