If you’re responsible for an industrial component that millions of people depend on, the last thing you want is a middle-of-the-night alert that the part has failed. The Internet of Things could be your ticket to sweet dreams.

IBM and National Instruments have built a testbed to find out how sensors in industrial gear, and analytics software in the cloud, can prevent failures in places like power plants. It’s part of a broader effort by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) to bring together various technologies in industrial IoT so companies can feel confident in adopting it.

NI and IBM set up the Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance Testbed to prove that energy utilities can send data from their monitoring systems to a public cloud for analysis. Specifically, they are connecting NI’s measurement and edge computing technology with IBM’s BlueMix PaaS (platform as a service). They’ve shown that the systems can work together, and they’re now identifying potential security holes and closing them, said Jamie Smith, director of embedded product systems at National Instruments. They are also talking with other companies about joining the testbed.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

…