Smart Grid and the Internet of Things

December 18, 2017

Utility companies in developed economies are looking to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve the development and operation of smart grids. However, an IoT setup cannot exist as a standalone web and needs many supporting IT services, translating into opportunities for IT service providers and benets for utilities and their consumers.

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Maple Systems, Inc.

Maple Systems Your Industrial Control Solution For over 34 years, Maple Systems has been a leading provider of HMIs (Human Machine Interfaces) in North America, supplying HMI solutions for industrial, OEM, and automation applications. Products include: Smart HMIs for the IIoT, touchscreen HMIs, HMI + PLCs, Industrial PCs, and text-based OITs. Our company headquarters are located in Everett, Washington. Utilized globally across all industries, our powerful control solutions are compatible with the biggest names in PLCsAllen Bradley, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, and more.

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NICT Beyond 5G/6G White Paper English version 2.0

whitePaper | June 17, 2022

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whitePaper | December 7, 2021

Achieving success with the Internet of Things (IoT)requires a lot more than just selecting the right technology. This helpful guide tackles the aspects of IoT implementation that companies wrestle with the most, such as creating a strong business case, managing security requirements, and identifying the top requirements of a successful system. We also take a deep dive into the most common challenges that early IoT adopters have encountered—from budget constraints to cultural resistance to change—with advice on how to overcome these challenges to obtain real and tangible benefits.

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Industry 4.0 in agriculture: Focus on IoT aspects

whitePaper | January 10, 2020

The Industry 4.0 trend is transforming the production capabilities of all industries, including the agricultural domain. Connectivity is the cornerstone of this transformation and IoT a key enabling technology that is increasingly part of agricultural equipment. From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0 The Industry 4.0 trend is seen as a transforming force that will deeply impact the industry. The trend is building on an array of digital technologies: Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and of digital practices: cooperation, mobility, open innovation.

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whitePaper | April 27, 2022

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AWS Prescriptive Guidance - Building an industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) digital transformation strategy

whitePaper | June 20, 2022

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) refers to the use of internet-connected sensors and devices in the industrial sectors, such as manufacturing, energy, automotive, healthcare, life sciences, and agriculture. IIoT allows telemetry data collection from equipment, machines, and field devices in an operational environment. These environments are commonly subject to industrial regulations; compute, networking, and power constraints; and inclement conditions, and all of these challenges contribute to the complexity of designing an IIoT solution.

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Global Industry Standards for Industrial IoT

whitePaper | June 2, 2021

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a rapidly expanding world of connected objects. As IIoT systems proliferate, large amounts of data are consumed by machine learning algorithms and shared between partners, customers and others. IIoT is a technology environment in which integration and interoperability are critical capabilities and the complexity of this environment makes this difficult to achieve. Standards play a critical role in IIoT for five main reasons. First, users and vendors cannot engineer a custom interface every time components or systems need to interact. Standards can make this explosion of interfaces manageable; they are the lingua franca for interoperability. For suppliers, this eliminates needless costs related to common capabilities instead encouraging a focus on innovations that add value.

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Maple Systems, Inc.

Maple Systems Your Industrial Control Solution For over 34 years, Maple Systems has been a leading provider of HMIs (Human Machine Interfaces) in North America, supplying HMI solutions for industrial, OEM, and automation applications. Products include: Smart HMIs for the IIoT, touchscreen HMIs, HMI + PLCs, Industrial PCs, and text-based OITs. Our company headquarters are located in Everett, Washington. Utilized globally across all industries, our powerful control solutions are compatible with the biggest names in PLCsAllen Bradley, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron, and more.

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