Nearly ten years after the government-backed IoTUK programme began, enough time has passed to separate its original promises from its lasting impact. Where did taxpayer funding create something useful? Which organisations, businesses and capabilities survived? Where did apparently … Read more
If you search for “IoTUK”, you may encounter two different things. One is this independent website, which covers industrial IoT, connectivity, edge computing and the practical deployment of connected technology. The other was IoTUK, a government-backed national programme … Read more
A new essay on RoamingSIM.co.uk argues that the most widely deployed connectivity model in European IoT has never been named. On a recent sensor deployment, that stopped being a semantic problem and became a reporting one. I spent … Read more
Your AI agent needs a body There is a moment in every AI agent project where the demo stops being a demo. It happens the first time someone says the word “overnight”. Up to that point, the agent … Read more
There’s a particular kind of hardware that nobody writes case studies about. It doesn’t have a launch event. It isn’t on anyone’s wishlist. It gets bolted into a cabinet on a wet Tuesday, wired to a meter or … Read more
The Schneider Modicon M660 is not a PLC Most engineers searching for the M660 expect to find a PLC. What Schneider Electric has actually built is something considerably more ambitious – an industrial PC, motion controller, safety controller … Read more
Industrial IoT Guide Node-RED on Industrial 4G and 5G Routers How Milesight routers, IoT SIM cards, MQTT, VPNs and VPS hosting can work together to create smarter, safer and more useful edge computing systems. Node-RED turns an industrial … Read more
