Category: Internet of Things

There are billions of devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. Companies are discovering that these “things” not previously connected to the Internet can provide intelligence into new areas of their business. The result? All aspects of an enterprise can be data-driven, which leads to insights that they can […]

Interview with Nihar Patel and Sarah Cooper Together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and integration partner Siemens, Volkswagen is opening up the Industrial Cloud to other companies from the engineering and technology sectors. In an interview, leading managers Nihar Patel (Executive Vice President New Business Development at Volkswagen AG.) and Sarah Cooper (General Manager of […]

Manufacturing industries only realize 20 to 30 percent of the value of their data. By consistently leveraging the value of their data, manufacturing companies could reduce product development costs by up to 50 percent and operating costs by up to 25 percent, while increasing their gross margins by one third[1]. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is a […]

AWS continually evolves our edge computing offerings to provide customers with the technology they need to extend AWS services to edge devices, such as consumer products or manufacturing equipment, and enable them to act intelligently. This helps customers avoid unnecessary cost and latency, and empower customers with the ability to manage edge devices securely and […]

UPDATE: The original blog post written on August 18th 2016 has been updated to this current version with the help of the author Michael Garcia (Principal Solutions Architect at AWS) and Anish Yadav (Cloud Support Associate at AWS). Whether it is in the context of industrial IoT or in connected homes, gateways are present in […]

Customers use AWS IoT to analyze the data generated by their IoT devices to quickly gain meaningful insights about their business. This helps them solve a variety of problems, such as identifying required improvements to their manufacturing processes, predicting device failures, or quickly diagnosing and troubleshooting device issues for their customers.  However, before IoT devices […]

Enabling operational data connectivity to AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to the edge to provide tools to act locally on the OT data, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. With AWS IoT Greengrass and the Cirrus Link MQTT Transmission module on the Ignition platform from Inductive Automation, industrial data […]

Organizations with large numbers of IoT devices need efficient solutions to track events occurring across multiple devices, in order to identify operational issues and act upon them. This post covers the use case of a fictitious organization AcmeTracker that offers services to track the geolocation of a wide suite of assets (such as vehicles), by […]

Industrial IoT (IIoT) bridges the gap between industrial equipment and automation networks (usually called OT, Operations Technology) and Information Technology (IT). In IT, use of new technologies such as machine learning, cloud, mobile, and edge computing are becoming commonplace. IIoT brings machines, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve performance, productivity, and efficiency of […]

Introduction Solutions architects, developers, and system designers building IoT solutions need ways to properly secure data and functions that operate on data across the entire solution landscape. In this post, we describe a few design options for scaling authorization policies focused on multi-user and multi-device use cases with AWS IoT Core. We cover several scenarios, […]