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5 Things to Consider Before Powering Industrial Systems With Power over Ethernet (PoE)
Do you struggle with connecting devices and transferring data while supplying power to powered devices in your industrial systems? Power over Ethernet (PoE) is the answer you've been looking for. Get a better understanding of how to deploy PoE solutions in industrial systems.
Strengthen Industrial Network Security by Implementing This Standard
Multiple factors can drive the selection of a security framework for industrial control systems. Discover the reason why system integrators prefer the IEC 62443-4-2 standard for safeguarding networks against cyberattacks.
Taking the Proven Benefits of Time-sensitive Networking to the Real World
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) boosts industrial automation by enhancing efficiency, streamlining management, and reducing costs. Discover how your operation can benefit from this key technology through several real-world TSN applications.
Expand Your Edge Networks Without A Hitch
As industries evolve to pursue increased resilience, their network infrastructures also grow more complex. Configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting can be especially challenging. Find out how industrial unmanaged switches can conveniently and affordably expand your growing network.
The Power of Interdisciplinary Integration: How BESS Perfectly Merges Power Flow with Data Flow
BESS integrates power and data flows, creating new challenges for networks. Focus is now on monitoring, high availability, IP management, and cybersecurity.
Overcoming 3 Major Challenges Impacting Long-term Operational Costs in BESS Applications
The effectiveness and durability of BESS applications are intertwined with long-term operational costs. Find out how designing remotely maintainable systems, adopting industrial-grade components, and providing continuous software security updates can effectively reduce long-term maintenance costs and ensure uninterrupted operations.
How to Build Reliable Oil-and-gas Infrastructure With Futureproof Networking Solutions
Reliable futureproof solutions are a necessity in the oil-and-gas industry, where equipment and networks must meet the highest standards in challenging environments. Explore reliable network solutions that ensure seamless operations in your oil-and-gas application.
How Protocol Gateways Enable Digital Transformation for Smart Grids
Power grids' smart functionality relies on effective protocol conversions, given the numerous communication protocols used by different subsystems. Discover how protocol gateways enable timely data acquisition, analysis, and notifications among the complex subsystems in your grid.
Overcoming the Challenges of BESS Communications
Extreme climate changes, stricter power system demands, and increasing cybersecurity risks pose challenges for reliable energy storage and distribution. Discover why stable communication is critical for BESS and what factors to prioritize to guarantee reliable operations.
How to Simplify Traffic Management for Smart Cities With Futureproof Networking Solutions
Smart traffic operations require futureproof, reliable, and secure networks that are easier to manage. Discover how the right software can simplify network management and help cities run smoother traffic operations.
The High-tech Moves of Vehicles Shaking Up the Modern Mining Industry
Innovative technologies like private 5G, fast Wi-Fi roaming, and Wi-Fi mesh networking help modern mining vehicles ensure uninterrupted connectivity. Discover how you can effortlessly integrate a wide range of communication interfaces into mining ecosystems to ensure smooth operations.
Elevate BESS Data Transmission and Storage
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) for grid stability and energy optimization have become essential. Excelling in data management will help the move towards sustainable energy. Discover two key strategies for data storage and transmission in BESS.
4 Key Points for Cybersecurity on the High Seas
A recent targeted ransomware attack on maritime networks emphasizes the need to improve cybersecurity of onboard systems. From next year, meeting the UR E26 and UR E27 requirements for improving cybersecurity of onboard equipment is a must. Get a better understanding of four crucial points to navigate these changes with ease.
Deciphering the 4 Major Data Challenges in Large-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) reshape the energy landscape by balancing energy supply and demand, stabilizing grids, preventing renewable waste, and encouraging innovation. However, optimizing grid balance and ensuring smooth operation of storage devices is no small task. Find out why these major data challenges need closer scrutiny for BESS to operate reliably.
How to Protect Manufacturing Operations From Cyberthreats With Futureproof Networking Solutions
As you converge your OT and IT systems, network security must evolve to face emerging new cyberthreats. Regularly monitoring network infrastructure and keeping protection mechanisms up to date are vital for a dynamic security policy to protect connected systems and reduce costly downtime. Discover how you can strengthen the defense of your manufacturing facilities.
The Energy Storage Market Set to Soar
To deal with its unpredictability, renewable energy requires megawatt-level battery storage systems (BESSs) that respond quickly. Find out how ready the BESS market is to meet increasing demands regarding battery costs and policy incentives.
Unleashing the Future of Mining: Embracing Digital Transformation and Overcoming Connectivity Challenges for Tomorrow’s Resources
Mining operations embrace digital transformation, but ensuring seamless data connectivity between humans and machines, as well as between machines, remains challenging in minefields.
Converging OT and IT with Futureproof Industrial Network Infrastructure
Integrating IT and OT systems helps businesses leverage their scattered but valuable data to maximize their technological capabilities and transform their business. Discover practical advice on how to streamline industrial communication networks while futureproofing your investments.
Gain More Visibility for Your Substation With IEC 61850 MMS Solutions
Real-time monitoring can be an enormous challenge for operators at substations that run on many legacy devices. Find out how you can bridge your legacy infrastructure to an IEC 61850 network without breaking the bank.
Rethinking Serial Connectivity to Extend the Life of Your Legacy Devices
Use these expert tips to overcome the three major challenges that stand between your legacy devices and modern systems.
Practical Cases in Enhancing Cybersecurity for Connected Serial Devices
Enhancing cybersecurity for your connected serial devices can be easily done. Two real-world examples show you how we can help.
Energy Today – Is Your Substation Safe?
The energy industry is embracing digitization, increasing the risks of data exposure and cyberattacks. Learn how to maintain data integrity of power systems and protect them from cyberattacks.
Optimize Serial-to-Ethernet Communication for Smart Manufacturing
Discover how our NPort serial device servers enhance serial-to-Ethernet communication to achieve optimized operational efficiency in your factories.
Can OT Data Dazzle Outside its Protective Shell?
As OT data evolves and moves towards IT, can it stand its ground beyond the safety of its own factory?
Three Considerations for Developing Reliable Hospital Information Systems
The need to reduce manual errors and increase operational efficiency is driving medical institutions towards digitalization. Developing reliable hospital information systems (HISs) that collect critical medical data is at the heart of this digitalization. Discover three things you need to know when choosing the right connectivity solution for your HIS.
Harvesting the Power of Data
So, is data the new gold? To appreciate the real power of data, look no further than recent advances to achieve grid monitoring in virtual power plants.
Optimize Serial-to-Ethernet Communication for Smart Transportation
Discover how the advanced functions our NPort operation modes enhance serial-to-Ethernet communication for your transportation systems.
Secure Your OT Data With an All-in-one Secure Computing Platform
With cyberattacks on the rise, securing operational data and edge devices is a huge challenge. See how our rugged computing solution secured with Intel technologies secures OT data.
Three Important Tips to Get You Ready for Future Industrial Network Communication
Are you struggling to make the digital leap? In this article, we provide three tips to help you smoothen your network operations and futureproof your business.
Embracing Smart Manufacturing With Futureproof Technologies: Two Industry Experts Weigh In
New technologies and standards, such as OPC UA FX, TSN, Wi-Fi 6/7, 5G and Single-pair Ethernet (SPE)/Ethernet-APL, are increasingly adopted to enable Industrial IIoT networks for smart manufacturing.
TSN—Is It Ready to Take Your Smart Factory up a Notch?
When building smart factories, OT and IT integration is paramount. TSN is the key to achieving this convergence. This article explores the requirements of TSN solutions for smart manufacturing.
Power to the People: How the IIoT Enables Reliable Green Energy Trading
Grid operators are always looking for ways to build a more resilient, reliable grid. Find out how a pilot project is leading the way with renewable energy trading between households to ease congestion in grids.
Enhance Your Industrial Network Security to Strengthen IT/OT Convergence
For many industries, IT/OT convergence is the path forward to enhancing operational resilience. Discover how you can enhance your industrial network security to build a robust network foundation to achieve successful IT/OT convergence.
How to Achieve Efficient Solar Power Management in the Grid
In the past, the fluctuating nature of renewable energy sources prevented consistent power delivery. Now, grid operators can overcome this challenge by installing power plant controllers (PPCs). Find out how you can take advantage of this technology to remote control grid-connected renewable energy sources.
Is Your Network Truly Ready for the Next Wave of Industry Transformation?
Many businesses are unable to successfully futureproof their industrial networks. One of the most common reasons is the misconception that digital transformation is just a matter of deploying new technologies. Tap into expert advice to discover how you can ensure a smooth transformation for your industrial networks.
How TSN Is Scaling Up and Accelerating Digital Transformation for Industrial Automation
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is a game changer for digital transformation in the automation industry and is the foundation of unified infrastructure. Discover with three real-world scenarios how you can tap into the benefits of a unified network
Practical Advice for the Defense-in-depth Approach and Zero Trust Architecture
In your quest for IT/OT convergence, security concerns rightfully might be at the front of your mind. To navigate your way through the cybersecurity jungle successfully, take these perspectives into account.
3 Perspectives to Keep Your Cybersecurity Journey on the Right Track
In your quest for IT/OT convergence, security concerns rightfully might be at the front of your mind. To navigate your way through the cybersecurity jungle successfully, take these perspectives into account.
Secure the Networks in Your Substation Automation Systems
To monitor and control IEDs in refurbished substations, it is critical to make your network infrastructure more secure. Discover how you can secure your devices from configuration to daily maintenance in your substations.
Optimize Energy Efficiency for Your Building Automation With Secure BACnet Gateways
Optimizing your building’s energy usage requires constant power monitoring. However, you will need additional meters with solid connectivity to collect power usage data from HVAC and other power systems. Find out how you can develop reliable connectivity for your remote power monitoring systems.
Maximize Your CNC Manufacturing Uptime
Connecting your CNC machines online helps you identify critical productivity issues, so you can fix them with minimal downtime, maintenance, or additional costs. Therefore, enabling smooth communication between your DNC/MDC software and CNC machines is essential. Weigh up these suggestions when you are looking for a connectivity solution.
How to Optimize Your Wireless AMH Operations
Unreliable wireless communication is one of the biggest nightmares for any wireless AMH deployment as unstable signals can easily disrupt operations. These four tips should help shed some of these worries by helping you take control of the invisible network communications of your AMH systems.
5 Tips From Industry Experts to Help Protect Your Industrial Networks
As the OT/IT convergence trend continues to gather pace, more attack surfaces are emerging in industrial control systems. Discover what tips industry experts have for you to kick-start your organization’s cybersecurity journey.
Enable Smarter Production Lines With the Right Connectivity
Without a reliable connection between your production lines and the control center, operators cannot receive complete and accurate data to optimize operational efficiency. Consider these suggestions to enable connectivity that brings out the full potential of your production lines.
2 Fundamentals That Help You Make Better Decisions for Your Industrial Cybersecurity
A wealth of standards and guidelines are available to help you effectively manage your cybersecurity. However, which of these standards or guidelines are the right fit for you? Follow these two principles to protect your devices from security vulnerabilities and manage security risks better.
How to Deploy Smarter Wireless Networks for AMH Systems
To maximize the capabilities of automated materials handling (AMH) systems, operators mainly use wireless communication to monitor system conditions. If you want to ensure smooth communications for your AMH systems, complete these actions to ensure a reliable wireless network.
Focus On These 4 Capabilities for Your OT Data Makeover
Quality data is set to become the cornerstone of any organization’s successful industrial digital transformation. Discover what determines quality data, especially on the OT front, and the four pillars that underpin it.
Don’t Let These OT Data Traps Be the Downfall of Your Industrial Digital Transformation
In the next installment of our three-part series that focuses on different aspects of industrial digital transformation, we look at how three types of OT data traps can impact the success of your industrial digital transformation. Find out how you can avoid these data traps.
Optimize Your Power Consumption Through Remote Monitoring PDUs and RPPs
Monitoring the status of your power consumption relies on a stable connection between your energy management system (EMS) and power devices, such as PDUs and RPPs, to ensure smooth and optimized power distribution. Consider these practical tips to achieve reliable connectivity.
Leverage Your Existing Technology to Enhance Industrial Cybersecurity
With more and more cybersecurity incidents occurring in OT systems, business owners are keen to seek solutions that enhance industrial cybersecurity without disrupting their normal operations. Learn more about a defense-in-depth approach that allows you to leverage your existing network infrastructure to build the first line of your network defense.
Behind Industrial Digital Transformation: Decoding the Secrets of OT Data
Industrial digital transformation is unlocking the true potential of previously unnoticed OT data. Find out how this transformation has directly catalyzed the integration of the IT and OT worlds regarding knowledge, operation, and security.
10 Things You Can Do to Enhance the Security of Your Connected Legacy Systems
Transitioning OT systems from traditionally closed to open data systems does not come without the risk of unauthorized access to your organization’s private operational data. Find out what steps you can take to enhance network security and reduce security risks to your OT/IT integration projects.
Steer the Future of an ATMS With Secure Data Acquisition and Transmissions
Thanks to the increasing adoption of cloud-based traffic management systems and the wider deployment of smart sensors, today’s ATMS is much more efficient and robust. However, these advanced sensors and systems raise several connectivity concerns. Before revamping your existing traffic management systems, you should ask yourself the following three questions.
Enhance the Visibility of Your Network to Increase Cybersecurity
Ensuring robust cybersecurity for industrial networks is a complex issue that requires comprehensive solutions. We highly recommend that you follow these four fundamental guidelines to strengthen your network's cybersecurity.
3 Tips for Deploying Reliable Road Weather Information Systems
Providing instant alerts about constantly changing weather and road conditions helps motorists navigate safely through traffic. Find out how you can deploy a reliable road weather information system to improve traffic safety for everyone.
Managing Your OT Networks Remotely Without Leaving the Door Open For Intruders
When it comes to remote network management, everyone wants a solution that simplifies daily operations without having to worry about cybersecurity.. Learn how you can leverage secure remote network management to tackle the challenges of the digital “new normal.”
How Reliable Connectivity Enables Intelligent Electronic Toll Collection
In a new three-part series, we will focus on different aspects of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). First up, we take a deep dive into what is required to build a network that comes with the reliability needed for an advanced ETC system. Find out how you can ensure accurate toll collection...
5 Things You Should Know That TSN Can Accomplish for the IIoT and Industry 4.0
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is being widely touted as a technology that can help Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications achieve high production efficiency as well as lower maintenance costs. Find out what you need to know about TSN to make the right investments.
Why OT Cybersecurity Is the Key to Operational Resilience
Aside from managing and segmenting OT networks, OT operators also need to ensure their systems are properly patched and their remote connections are secure. Take these four steps to better protect your OT networks from cyberattacks and enhance operational resilience.
Ensure Your Industrial Networks Can Take On Future Challenges
Many IIoT applications not only bring new business opportunities, but also require more of your existing network infrastructure. Win the long-term networking game with a connectivity solution that can help your industrial networks take on future challenges.
Getting Your Networks Ready for the Future
Staying agile in the face of new demands has become a key aspect of maintaining a competitive edge in our constantly changing world. Is your IIoT network ready for the new challenges coming your way?
An Open or Proprietary IIoT Solution - Which One Is Better For You?
One solution offers an easy-to-deploy approach but with constraints on flexibility, openness, and data ownership. The other focuses on the cross-systematic integration of all devices and giving you ownership of the solution. Find out more about the pros and cons of both solutions...
Your First Line of Network Defense
Finding the right secure router or firewall for your application is a prerequisite for bolstering your industrial network security. We identify three criteria that help remove the guesswork when choosing the best firewall for your needs...
Cybersecurity: Get S.M.A.R.T. From Home to the Workplace
As working remotely becomes the new norm, the future of network security will be a new and critical frontier for every smart factory manager. Focusing solely on cybersecurity measures in a factory is simply not enough. Find out how you can smarten up your overall approach to cybersecurity...
Maximize System Uptime with Secure, Scalable Networks
For successful digital transformation, your managed switches need to be smarter and more versatile than before to adapt to new changes and ensure secure data transmissions. Find out if your managed switches are up to the task...
3 Key Considerations to Building Reliable Wireless Communications for AGVs and AS/RS Systems
Efficient and reliable AGVs and AS/RS systems in warehouses and factories rely on fast and stable wireless connectivity. Consider these three key factors when building a reliable wireless communications network for these systems...
How to Build a Secure Network Infrastructure
Is there a silver bullet that can address all the vulnerabilities in your industrial control system (ICS)? No such thing exists, but you can protect yourself by implementing security policies to secure your network. Find out how you can successfully plan and implement these policies to secure your network infrastructure...
How to Give Your Edge Networks an Edge
Connecting a limited number of equipment in just one system is hard enough. Now, imagine the headache of connecting a growing number devices from multiple systems into a single network. So how do you ensure all of these devices and Ethernet nodes are connected and that operators receive the critical data they need to maintain continuous operations?
One Single Factor That Can Make or Break a Million-dollar Unmanned Factory
Unmanned systems not only effectively reduce labor demand, but more importantly, can significantly increase production capacity by cutting down on idle time in factories. When setting up unmanned logistics systems, the often-overlooked wireless network can actually make or break the project. Find out what pitfalls you need to look out for...
2 Ways the IIoT Turns Data Into Gold for Manufacturing
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, unmanned operations are fast becoming a necessity to ensure production continues and to stay competitive. While an unmanned operation is an obvious benefit of digitalization, it is not the only benefit. Find out how you can extract a wealth of data for valuable insights that can greatly improve your production efficiency...
What’s Next for IIoT Device Connectivity?
How you manage all your different network devices and how you keep your data safe matter even more than before. We share three expert tips you should keep in mind when selecting device connectivity solutions to meet the demanding requirements of your large-scale and highly distributed IIoT applications...
Close the Communication Gap Between Legacy Devices and Modern Systems
Smooth data communication between legacy devices and modern systems relies on protocol conversion. In this article, we identify three key criteria to help you choose a protocol gateway that offers the maximum benefit...
Leveraging Cellular IIoT Gateways in Water and Wastewater Monitoring
IIoT gateways with cellular connectivity are helping utility companies to better monitor and manage their facilities. We look at how a water and wastewater management company is leveraging cellular IIoT gateways to streamline its operations...
Expand Your Reliable Networks With Ease
Increasing a network's complexity to meet growing connectivity demands is not always necessary. The combined effort of configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting an expanded network can become an arduous task. Find out how you can reduce the hassles of configuration and maintenance...
Low-power Wireless IIoT Gateways Enable Solar Power Monitoring
All Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications need to reliably transmit collected data from remote field sites to a public or private cloud server for analysis. After all, there is little value to data that sits in silos. In this article, we discuss how low-power wireless IIoT gateways are enabling residential solar-power facilities to reap the full benefits of the IIoT...
Proactively Protect Your Industrial Networks
Increased cybersecurity incidents are crippling critical infrastructure, harming businesses tremendously. Cybersecurity experts are proposing more proactive actions to protect industrial networks against cyberattacks. These actions can be realized by an industrial intrusion prevention system (IPS), which can effectively counteract intrusions and reduce their impact on industrial systems...
Secure Cloud Services for Remote Machine Access
For many years, business owners have been able to access their networks and machines from remote sites. However, as businesses expand, ensuring efficient and cost-effective remote access can be an issue. Read on to discover how cloud-based services are helping overcome these issues and also offer new solutions that simplify remote maintenance for business owners...
Industrial Network Vulnerabilities You Need to Mitigate
In the current industrial networking climate, it is not only essential to have a full understanding of potential cybersecurity risks, but also to have robust strategies in place to mitigate these risks. In this article, the three main stages of cyberattacks will be considered, followed by the steps that can be taken to mitigate these risks in an efficient and timely manner...
TSN—The Future Is Now
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is set to become the next stage in the evolution of standard Ethernet technology by introducing deterministic data transmission, higher reliability, and enhanced security. While TSN is at the center stage of the future of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the question is when will this technology be ready to be implemented in real applications...
How Industrial Linux Enables Distributed IIoT Applications
Distributed applications are on the cutting edge of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and leverage edge computing to bring the benefits of the IIoT to remote regions. IIoT edge gateways with industrial Linux OS are helping overcome edge-computing challenges in these applications. However, choosing an industrial Linux distribution that matches your application requirements is a challenge. Read on to find out what to look for in an industrial Linux distribution for your IIoT gateways...
How TSN Is Revolutionizing Smart Manufacturing
In the future, smart manufacturing will use time-sensitive and autonomous end-to-end communication to intelligently connect people, things, and businesses in real time. Find out how Time-sensitive Networking (TSN) guarantees the flow of information in smart factories so that the right decisions and actions can be taken in time...