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Best On-Premise IoT Platforms for Industrial Use

An on-premise IoT platform runs on infrastructure an organisation owns or controls, such as an on-site data centre, industrial server, edge gateway, or private cloud. It is commonly used for industrial IoT (IIoT) deployments that need local data processing, operation during connectivity outages, direct integration with PLCs and industrial protocols, or tighter control over data…
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SCADA is Dead in 10 Years. What’s Next?
SCADA has been one of the foundations of industrial automation for roughly half a century. I believe that in another ten years, however, the term may describe what industrial software actually does about as accurately as the word “telephone” describes the device we carry in our pockets today. This does not mean that every SCADA…
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Unified DCIM Monitoring for Saudi Aramco Facilities

Project Name Technical Equipment Management Customer Saudi Aramco Industry Oil and Gas Country Saudi Arabia Solution type DCIM Project Description Saudi Aramco needed one dashboard over its facilities network and the sensors around it. Iotellect and its IoT gateways brought hardware of very different kinds under a single DCIM monitoring system.. Water leak detectors, a…
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Multi-Site Data Center and Server Room Supervision

Project Name Multi-Site Data Center and Server Room Supervision Customer NDA Industry Information Technology Solution type DCIM Project Description The customer keeps a large portfolio of information systems running. The hardware behind them is spread across geographically separated data centers and a set of smaller server rooms: servers, storage systems, switches and routers, and around…
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Building Management and Dispatching for a Corporate Headquarters

Project Name Building Management and Dispatching for a Corporate Headquarters Customer NDA Industry Building and Construction Solution type BMS Project Description The project covers the engineering systems of designated executive floors in a major energy corporation’s headquarters building — water supply, drainage, ventilation, cooling, power, thermal substations, leak control, and air curtains. The goal was…
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MES Pilot for an Open-Pit Gold Mining Group

Project Name MES Pilot for an Open-Pit Gold Mining Group Customer NDA Industry Mining Solution type MES Project Description The customer operates a full gold production cycle: open-pit mining, ore haulage, crushing and screening, conveyor stacking onto heap leach pads, sorption and desorption, electrolysis, and smelting of Doré bars. Production data lived in disconnected systems…
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MES SOLUTION FOR AN AUTOMATED SMT ASSEMBLY LINE

Project Name MES SOLUTION FOR AN AUTOMATED SMT ASSEMBLY LINE Customer NDA Industry Manufacturing Solution type MES Project Description The customer operates an automatic surface-mount (SMT) assembly line. In most cases, assembly equipment of this class is used at only 25–30% capacity, yet its service life is often 10–15% shorter than estimated. Equipment failure or…
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Vendor Lock-In Is Discussed Way Too Much. Self-Lock-In Almost Never Is.
Vendor lock-in is one of the first risks discussed whenever a company considers using a commercial software platform. What happens if the vendor changes its pricing, shifts the product in the wrong direction, gets acquired, or simply stops serving your needs? What happens if you eventually need to migrate? These are perfectly reasonable questions, and…
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Build vs. Buy an IoT Platform: What Should You Actually Build Yourself?

When building an IoT product, the usual question is whether you should build your own IoT platform or buy one. I think that is the wrong way to frame the decision. The better question is: which parts of your technology are actually your product, and which parts are infrastructure that somebody else has already spent…
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Why IoT Products Fail and How to Avoid Common Pitfalls

Why do IoT products fail after a successful prototype? Often, the challenge is no longer connecting devices—it is scaling the architecture, managing customer-specific requirements, controlling costs, and maintaining the product over time. We set out to build a taxonomy of IoT product failures based on what we have seen through our partners and the wider…
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